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We introduce Graph Concept Bottleneck (GCB) as a new paradigm for self-explainable text-attributed graph learning. GCB maps graphs into a subspace, concept bottleneck, where each concept is a meaningful phrase, and predictions are made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xiaoxue Han , Libo Zhang , Zining Zhu , Yue Ning

Understanding what deep network models capture in their learned representations is a fundamental challenge in computer vision. We present a new methodology to understanding such vision models, the Visual Concept Connectome (VCC), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Matthew Kowal , Richard P. Wildes , Konstantinos G. Derpanis

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (LLMs) have shown extreme effectiveness in visual question answering (VQA). However, the design nature of these end-to-end models prevents them from being interpretable to humans,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xingyu Fu , Ben Zhou , Sihao Chen , Mark Yatskar , Dan Roth

Contextual information has been shown to be powerful for semantic segmentation. This work proposes a novel Context-based Tandem Network (CTNet) by interactively exploring the spatial contextual information and the channel contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Zechao Li , Yanpeng Sun , Jinhui Tang

Concept bottleneck models map from raw inputs to concepts, and then from concepts to targets. Such models aim to incorporate pre-specified, high-level concepts into the learning procedure, and have been motivated to meet three desiderata:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Andrei Margeloiu , Matthew Ashman , Umang Bhatt , Yanzhi Chen , Mateja Jamnik , Adrian Weller

The perceptual-based grouping process produces a hierarchical and compositional image representation that helps both human and machine vision systems recognize heterogeneous visual concepts. Examples can be found in the classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Zhiheng Li , Wenxuan Bao , Jiayang Zheng , Chenliang Xu

The task of identifying multimodal image-text representations has garnered increasing attention, particularly with models such as CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining), which demonstrate exceptional performance in learning complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Zhiyu Zhu , Zhibo Jin , Jiayu Zhang , Nan Yang , Jiahao Huang , Jianlong Zhou , Fang Chen

Machine learning enables the extraction of useful information from large, diverse datasets. However, despite many successful applications, machine learning continues to suffer from performance and transparency issues. These challenges can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 V. C. Storey , J. Parsons , A. Castellanos , M. Tremblay , R. Lukyanenko , W. Maass , A. Castillo

Recent research on graph neural network (GNN) models successfully applied GNNs to classical graph algorithms and combinatorial optimisation problems. This has numerous benefits, such as allowing applications of algorithms when preconditions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Dobrik Georgiev , Pietro Barbiero , Dmitry Kazhdan , Petar Veličković , Pietro Liò

We introduce CEMTM, a context-enhanced multimodal topic model designed to infer coherent and interpretable topic structures from both short and long documents containing text and images. CEMTM builds on fine-tuned large vision language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Amirhossein Abaskohi , Raymond Li , Chuyuan Li , Shafiq Joty , Giuseppe Carenini

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) in medical imaging aim to improve model interpretability by predicting intermediate clinical concepts before final diagnoses. However, most existing CBMs treat concepts as discriminative predictors of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Amy Rafferty , Rishi Ramaesh , Ajitha Rajan

Concept-based learning enhances prediction accuracy and interpretability by leveraging high-level, human-understandable concepts. However, existing CBL frameworks do not address survival analysis tasks, which involve predicting event times…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Stanislav R. Kirpichenko , Lev V. Utkin , Andrei V. Konstantinov , Natalya M. Verbova

Today's deep learning systems deliver high performance based on end-to-end training. While they deliver strong performance, these systems are hard to interpret. To address this issue, we propose Semantic Bottleneck Networks (SBN): deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Max Losch , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) have emerged as a cornerstone approach for interpretable machine learning, providing human-understandable intermediate representations through explicit concept activations. However, this interpretability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Aditya Sridhar

Scene recognition is an important research topic in computer vision, while feature extraction is a key step of object recognition. Although classical Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBM) can efficiently represent complicated data, it is hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Jingyu Gao , Jinfu Yang , Guanghui Wang , Mingai Li

Learning continually from a stream of non-i.i.d. data is an open challenge in deep learning, even more so when working in resource-constrained environments such as embedded devices. Visual models that are continually updated through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Clea Rebillard , Julio Hurtado , Andrii Krutsylo , Lucia Passaro , Vincenzo Lomonaco

Custom diffusion models (CDMs) have attracted widespread attention due to their astonishing generative ability for personalized concepts. However, most existing CDMs unreasonably assume that personalized concepts are fixed and cannot change…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jiahua Dong , Wenqi Liang , Hongliu Li , Duzhen Zhang , Meng Cao , Henghui Ding , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

The Deep Boltzmann Machines (DBM) is a state-of-the-art unsupervised learning model, which has been successfully applied to handwritten digit recognition and, as well as object recognition. However, the DBM is limited in scene recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Jinfu Yang , Jingyu Gao , Guanghui Wang , Shanshan Zhang

Traditional deep learning interpretability methods which are suitable for model users cannot explain network behaviors at the global level and are inflexible at providing fine-grained explanations. As a solution, concept-based explanations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Jinbin Huang , Aditi Mishra , Bum Chul Kwon , Chris Bryan

Transparency is a paramount concern in the medical field, prompting researchers to delve into the realm of explainable AI (XAI). Among these XAI methods, Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) aim to restrict the model's latent space to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Lijie Hu , Songning Lai , Yuan Hua , Shu Yang , Jingfeng Zhang , Di Wang