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Text documents can be described by a number of abstract concepts such as semantic category, writing style, or sentiment. Machine learning (ML) models have been trained to automatically map documents to these abstract concepts, allowing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Leila Arras , Franziska Horn , Grégoire Montavon , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

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

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 proposed method, Neural Radiance Projection (NeRP), addresses the three most fundamental shortages of training such a convolutional neural network on X-ray image segmentation: dealing with missing/limited human-annotated datasets;…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Pham Ngoc Huy , Tran Minh Quan

We implement a visual interpretability method Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) on top of 3D U-Net trained to perform lesion segmentation on the small dataset of multi-modal images provided by ISLES 2017 competition. We demonstrate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Erico Tjoa , Guo Heng , Lu Yuhao , Cuntai Guan

Despite the tremendous achievements of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many computer vision tasks, understanding how they actually work remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel two-step understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Heyi Li , Yunke Tian , Klaus Mueller , Xin Chen

Machine learning-based imaging diagnostics has recently reached or even superseded the level of clinical experts in several clinical domains. However, classification decisions of a trained machine learning system are typically…

Distance-based classifiers, such as k-nearest neighbors and support vector machines, continue to be a workhorse of machine learning, widely used in science and industry. In practice, to derive insights from these models, it is also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Florian Bley , Jacob Kauffmann , Simon León Krug , Klaus-Robert Müller , Grégoire Montavon

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

Machine learning (ML) model explainability has received growing attention, especially in the area related to model risk and regulations. In this paper, we reviewed and compared some popular ML model explainability methodologies, especially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Shafie Gholizadeh , Nengfeng Zhou

This paper analyzes the predictions of image captioning models with attention mechanisms beyond visualizing the attention itself. We develop variants of layer-wise relevance propagation (LRP) and gradient-based explanation methods, tailored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jiamei Sun , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Wojciech Samek , Alexander Binder

The growing prevalence of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) has heightened the need for reliable techniques to determine whether a model has been fine-tuned from or is even identical to another. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ruibo Chen , Sheng Zhang , Yihan Wu , Tong Zheng , Peihua Mai , Heng Huang

Memory, as the basis of learning, determines the storage, update and forgetting of knowledge and further determines the efficiency of learning. Featured with the mechanism of memory, a radial basis function neural network based learning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Yiming Fei , Jiangang Li , Yanan Li

This work generalizes graph neural networks (GNNs) beyond those based on the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) algorithm, graph Laplacians, and diffusions. Our approach, denoted Relational Pooling (RP), draws from the theory of finite partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Ryan L. Murphy , Balasubramaniam Srinivasan , Vinayak Rao , Bruno Ribeiro

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are known to be powerful methods for many hard problems (e.g. image classification, speech recognition or time series prediction). However, these models tend to produce black-box results and are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Marco Landt-Hayen , Peer Kröger , Martin Claus , Willi Rath

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities, but their enormous size poses significant challenges for deployment in real-world applications. To address this issue, researchers have sought to apply network pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Chang Gao , Kang Zhao , Runqi Wang , Jianfei Chen , Liping Jing

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

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

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

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