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Globally interpretable models are a promising approach for trustworthy AI in safety-critical domains. Alongside global explanations, detailed local explanations are a crucial complement to effectively support human experts during inference.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Thomas Norrenbrock , Timo Kaiser , Sovan Biswas , Neslihan Kose , Ramesh Manuvinakurike , Bodo Rosenhahn

Challenges such as the lack of high-quality annotations, long-tailed data distributions, and inconsistent staining styles pose significant obstacles to training neural networks to detect abnormal cells in cytopathology robustly. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Qiuyi Qi , Xin Li , Ming Kong , Zikang Xu , Bingdi Chen , Qiang Zhu , S Kevin Zhou

Deep CNNs have been pushing the frontier of visual recognition over past years. Besides recognition accuracy, strong demands in understanding deep CNNs in the research community motivate developments of tools to dissect pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Bangjie Yin , Luan Tran , Haoxiang Li , Xiaohui Shen , Xiaoming Liu

This paper proposes a generic method to learn interpretable convolutional filters in a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for object classification, where each interpretable filter encodes features of a specific object part. Our method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Quanshi Zhang , Xin Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Huilin Zhou , Song-Chun Zhu

Although interpretable prototype networks have improved the transparency of deep learning image classification, the need for multiple prototypes in collaborative decision-making increases cognitive complexity and hinders user understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yitao Peng , Lianghua He , Hongzhou Chen

We propose a technique for producing "visual explanations" for decisions from a large class of CNN-based models, making them more transparent. Our approach - Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM), uses the gradients of any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju , Michael Cogswell , Abhishek Das , Ramakrishna Vedantam , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Explainability has been a challenge in AI for as long as AI has existed. With the recently increased use of AI in society, it has become more important than ever that AI systems would be able to explain the reasoning behind their results…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Kary Främling

Deep vision models often rely on biases learned from spurious correlations in datasets. To identify these biases, methods that interpret high-level, human-understandable concepts are more effective than those relying primarily on low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 David Méndez , Gianpaolo Bontempo , Elisa Ficarra , Roberto Confalonieri , Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez

Classification of jets with deep learning has gained significant attention in recent times. However, the performance of deep neural networks is often achieved at the cost of interpretability. Here we propose an interpretable network trained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-27 Amit Chakraborty , Sung Hak Lim , Mihoko M. Nojiri

We propose a general framework called Network Dissection for quantifying the interpretability of latent representations of CNNs by evaluating the alignment between individual hidden units and a set of semantic concepts. Given any CNN model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 David Bau , Bolei Zhou , Aditya Khosla , Aude Oliva , Antonio Torralba

Understanding black-box machine learning models is crucial for their widespread adoption. Learning globally interpretable models is one approach, but achieving high performance with them is challenging. An alternative approach is to explain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jinsung Yoon , Sercan O. Arik , Tomas Pfister

How do computers and intelligent agents view the world around them? Feature extraction and representation constitutes one the basic building blocks towards answering this question. Traditionally, this has been done with carefully engineered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jaime Spencer , Richard Bowden , Simon Hadfield

We present Conformal Intent Classification and Clarification (CICC), a framework for fast and accurate intent classification for task-oriented dialogue systems. The framework turns heuristic uncertainty scores of any intent classifier into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Floris den Hengst , Ralf Wolter , Patrick Altmeyer , Arda Kaygan

Interpreting figurative language such as sarcasm across multi-modal inputs presents unique challenges, often requiring task-specific fine-tuning and extensive reasoning steps. However, current Chain-of-Thought approaches do not efficiently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Aashish Anantha Ramakrishnan , Aadarsh Anantha Ramakrishnan , Dongwon Lee

Interpretability is often an essential requirement in medical imaging. Advanced deep learning methods are required to address this need for explainability and high performance. In this work, we investigate whether additional information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Luisa Gallee , Meinrad Beer , Michael Goetz

Recent advances in large vision-language models have revolutionized the image classification paradigm. Despite showing impressive zero-shot capabilities, a pre-defined set of categories, a.k.a. the vocabulary, is assumed at test time for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Alessandro Conti , Enrico Fini , Massimiliano Mancini , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

As a fundamental visual attribute, image complexity significantly influences both human perception and the performance of computer vision models. However, accurately assessing and quantifying image complexity remains a challenging task. (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Shipeng Liu , Liang Zhao , Dengfeng Chen

With the widespread applications of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), it becomes increasingly important for DCNNs not only to make accurate predictions but also to explain how they make their decisions. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Xinrui Cui , Dan Wang , Z. Jane Wang

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in computer vision; however, their black-box nature in decision-making limits interpretability and trust, particularly in safety-critical applications. Interpretability is crucial in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ran Eisenberg , Amit Rozner , Ethan Fetaya , Ofir Lindenbaum

Deep neural networks often rely on spurious correlations to make predictions, which hinders generalization beyond training environments. For instance, models that associate cats with bed backgrounds can fail to predict the existence of cats…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shirley Wu , Mert Yuksekgonul , Linjun Zhang , James Zou