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We introduce Discovering Conceptual Network Explanations (DCNE), a new approach for generating human-comprehensible visual explanations to enhance the interpretability of deep neural image classifiers. Our method automatically finds visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Neehar Kondapaneni , Markus Marks , Oisin Mac Aodha , Pietro Perona

Decades of psychological research have been aimed at modeling how people learn features and categories. The empirical validation of these theories is often based on artificial stimuli with simple representations. Recently, deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Joshua C. Peterson , Joshua T. Abbott , Thomas L. Griffiths

Vision models are interpretable when they classify objects on the basis of features that a person can directly understand. Recently, methods relying on visual feature prototypes have been developed for this purpose. However, in contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Peter Hase , Chaofan Chen , Oscar Li , Cynthia Rudin

Explaining black-box Artificial Intelligence (AI) models is a cornerstone for trustworthy AI and a prerequisite for its use in safety critical applications such that AI models can reliably assist humans in critical decisions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Poulami Sinhamahapatra , Lena Heidemann , Maureen Monnet , Karsten Roscher

Although explainability is essential in the clinical diagnosis, most deep learning models still function as black boxes without elucidating their decision-making process. In this study, we investigate the explainable model development that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Yunhe Gao , Difei Gu , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

Explainable artificial intelligence is proposed to provide explanations for reasoning performed by an Artificial Intelligence. There is no consensus on how to evaluate the quality of these explanations, since even the definition of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Iván Sevillano-García , Julián Luengo-Martín , Francisco Herrera

Compositional explanations are a family of methods that aim to describe the spatial alignment between neurons' receptive field activations and concepts through logical rules, typically computed via a search over all possible concept…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Biagio La Rosa , Leilani H. Gilpin

Explaining opaque Machine Learning (ML) models is an increasingly relevant problem. Current explanation in AI (XAI) methods suffer several shortcomings, among others an insufficient incorporation of background knowledge, and a lack of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Laura State , Salvatore Ruggieri , Franco Turini

In computer vision, explainable AI (xAI) methods seek to mitigate the 'black-box' problem by making the decision-making process of deep learning models more interpretable and transparent. Traditional xAI methods concentrate on visualizing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Hyeonggeun Yun

Compositional Explanations is a method for identifying logical formulas of concepts that approximate the neurons' behavior. However, these explanations are linked to the small spectrum of neuron activations (i.e., the highest ones) used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Biagio La Rosa , Leilani H. Gilpin , Roberto Capobianco

In this paper, we propose a graph classification approach for automatically determining whether to use a monolithic or a decomposition-based solution method. In this approach, an optimization problem is represented as a graph that captures…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Ilias Mitrai , Prodromos Daoutidis

Today, image classification is a common way for systems to process visual content. Although neural network approaches to classification have seen great progress in reducing error rates, it is not clear what this means for a cognitive system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Lee Martie , Mohammad Arif Ul Alam , Gaoyuan Zhang , Ryan R. Anderson

In the era of evolving artificial intelligence, machines are increasingly emulating human-like capabilities, including visual perception and linguistic expression. Image captioning stands at the intersection of these domains, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Hrishikesh Singh , Aarti Sharma , Millie Pant

Many high-performance models suffer from a lack of interpretability. There has been an increasing influx of work on explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in order to disentangle what is meant and expected by XAI. Nevertheless, there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Adrien Bennetot , Jean-Luc Laurent , Raja Chatila , Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez

The thesis explores the role machine learning methods play in creating intuitive computational models of neural processing. Combined with interpretability techniques, machine learning could replace human modeler and shift the focus of human…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-20 Ilya Kuzovkin

Explainability of a classification model is crucial when deployed in real-world decision support systems. Explanations make predictions actionable to the user and should inform about the capabilities and limitations of the system. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Erwin Walraven , Ajaya Adhikari , Cor J. Veenman

Explaining deep neural networks is challenging, due to their large size and non-linearity. In this paper, we introduce a concept-based explanation method, in order to explain the prediction for an individual class, as well as contrasting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Rudolf Herdt , Daniel Otero Baguer

Explainable AI aims to render model behavior understandable by humans, which can be seen as an intermediate step in extracting causal relations from correlative patterns. Due to the high risk of possible fatal decisions in image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Lukas Klein , João B. S. Carvalho , Mennatallah El-Assady , Paolo Penna , Joachim M. Buhmann , Paul F. Jaeger

Image compositions are helpful in the study of image structures and assist in discovering the semantics of the underlying scene portrayed across art forms and styles. With the digitization of artworks in recent years, thousands of images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Prathmesh Madhu , Tilman Marquart , Ronak Kosti , Dirk Suckow , Peter Bell , Andreas Maier , Vincent Christlein

Interpretable computer vision models explain their classifications through comparing the distances between the local embeddings of an image and a set of prototypes that represent the training data. However, these approaches introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Evelyn J. Mannix , Liam Hodgkinson , Howard Bondell