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In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) systems have come to the forefront. These systems, mostly based on Deep learning (DL), achieve excellent results in areas such as image processing, natural language processing, or speech…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Frantisek Sefcik , Wanda Benesova

Explaining graph neural networks (GNNs) has become more and more important recently. Higher-order interpretation schemes, such as GNN-LRP (layer-wise relevance propagation for GNN), emerged as powerful tools for unraveling how different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ping Xiong , Thomas Schnake , Grégoire Montavon , Klaus-Robert Müller , Shinichi Nakajima

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance in complex machine learning tasks such as image classification or speech recognition. However, due to their multi-layer nonlinear structure, they are not transparent,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Wojciech Samek , Alexander Binder , Grégoire Montavon , Sebastian Bach , Klaus-Robert Müller

Neural networks have become increasingly prevalent within the geosciences, although a common limitation of their usage has been a lack of methods to interpret what the networks learn and how they make decisions. As such, neural networks…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Benjamin A. Toms , Elizabeth A. Barnes , Imme Ebert-Uphoff

The increased use of convolutional neural networks for face recognition in science, governance, and broader society has created an acute need for methods that can show how these 'black box' decisions are made. To be interpretable and useful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Jñani Crawford , Eshed Margalit , Kalanit Grill-Spector , Sonia Poltoratski

The practical application of deep neural networks are still limited by their lack of transparency. One of the efforts to provide explanation for decisions made by artificial intelligence (AI) is the use of saliency or heat maps highlighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Erico Tjoa , Guan Cuntai

In this paper, we tackle the problem of explanations in a deep-learning based model for recommendations by leveraging the technique of layer-wise relevance propagation. We use a Deep Convolutional Neural Network to extract relevant features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Homanga Bharadhwaj

Layer-wise relevance propagation is a framework which allows to decompose the prediction of a deep neural network computed over a sample, e.g. an image, down to relevance scores for the single input dimensions of the sample such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Alexander Binder , Grégoire Montavon , Sebastian Bach , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

The development of effective explainability tools for Transformers is a crucial pursuit in deep learning research. One of the most promising approaches in this domain is Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP), which propagates relevance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yarden Bakish , Itamar Zimerman , Hila Chefer , Lior Wolf

Background: In cognitive neuroscience the potential of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for solving complex classification tasks is yet to be fully exploited. The most limiting factor is that DNNs as notorious 'black boxes' do not provide…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Irene Sturm , Sebastian Bach , Wojciech Samek , Klaus-Robert Müller

The lack of transparency of neural networks stays a major break for their use. The Layerwise Relevance Propagation technique builds heat-maps representing the relevance of each input in the model s decision. The relevance spreads backward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Mathilde Guillemot , Catherine Heusele , Rodolphe Korichi , Sylvianne Schnebert , Liming Chen

The clear transparency of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is hampered by complex internal structures and nonlinear transformations along deep hierarchies. In this paper, we propose a new attribution method, Relative Sectional Propagation (RSP),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Woo-Jeoung Nam , Jaesik Choi , Seong-Whan Lee

In current deep network architectures, deeper layers in networks tend to contain hundreds of independent neurons which makes it hard for humans to understand how they interact with each other. By organizing the neurons by correlation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Randy Tan , Naimul Khan , Ling Guan

As Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated superhuman performance in a variety of fields, there is an increasing interest in understanding the complex internal mechanisms of DNNs. In this paper, we propose Relative Attributing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Woo-Jeoung Nam , Shir Gur , Jaesik Choi , Lior Wolf , Seong-Whan Lee

Single neurons in neural networks are often interpretable in that they represent individual, intuitively meaningful features. However, many neurons exhibit $\textit{mixed selectivity}$, i.e., they represent multiple unrelated features. A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-19 David Klindt , Sophia Sanborn , Francisco Acosta , Frédéric Poitevin , Nina Miolane

DeConvNet, Guided BackProp, LRP, were invented to better understand deep neural networks. We show that these methods do not produce the theoretically correct explanation for a linear model. Yet they are used on multi-layer networks with…

Deep neural networks are widely used in practical applications of AI, however, their inner structure and complexity made them generally not easily interpretable. Model transparency and interpretability are key requirements for multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Luca Bergamin , Roberto Confalonieri , Fabio Aiolli

Even though deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve state-of-the-art results for a number of problems involving genomic data, getting DNNs to explain their decision-making process has been a major challenge due to their black-box nature. One…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-14 Utku Ozbulak , Solha Kang , Jasper Zuallaert , Stephen Depuydt , Joris Vankerschaver

Deep learning models are widely applied in the signal processing community, yet their inner working procedure is often treated as a black box. In this paper, we investigate the use of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Luca Comanducci , Fabio Antonacci , Augusto Sarti

Graphs are ubiquitous in many applications, such as social networks, knowledge graphs, smart grids, etc.. Graph neural networks (GNN) are the current state-of-the-art for these applications, and yet remain obscure to humans. Explaining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Yazheng Liu , Xi Zhang , Sihong Xie