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This paper explains the generalization power of a deep neural network (DNN) from the perspective of interactions. Although there is no universally accepted definition of the concepts encoded by a DNN, the sparsity of interactions in a DNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Huilin Zhou , Hao Zhang , Huiqi Deng , Dongrui Liu , Wen Shen , Shih-Han Chan , Quanshi Zhang

This paper proposes a new perspective for analyzing the generalization power of deep neural networks (DNNs), i.e., directly disentangling and analyzing the dynamics of generalizable and non-generalizable interaction encoded by a DNN through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuxuan He , Junpeng Zhang , Lei Cheng , Hongyuan Zhang , Quanshi Zhang

Faithfully summarizing the knowledge encoded by a deep neural network (DNN) into a few symbolic primitive patterns without losing much information represents a core challenge in explainable AI. To this end, Ren et al. (2024) have derived a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Lu Chen , Siyu Lou , Benhao Huang , Quanshi Zhang

In this paper, we find that the complexity of interactions encoded by a deep neural network (DNN) can explain its generalization power. We also discover that the confusing samples of a DNN, which are represented by non-generalizable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Junpeng Zhang , Lei Cheng , Qing Li , Liang Lin , Quanshi Zhang

This paper aims to explain how a deep neural network (DNN) gradually extracts new knowledge and forgets noisy features through layers in forward propagation. Up to now, although the definition of knowledge encoded by the DNN has not reached…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Xu Cheng , Lei Cheng , Zhaoran Peng , Yang Xu , Tian Han , Quanshi Zhang

This study proves the two-phase dynamics of a deep neural network (DNN) learning interactions. Despite the long disappointing view of the faithfulness of post-hoc explanation of a DNN, a series of theorems have been proven in recent years…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Qihan Ren , Junpeng Zhang , Yang Xu , Yue Xin , Dongrui Liu , Quanshi Zhang

This paper explores the bottleneck of feature representations of deep neural networks (DNNs), from the perspective of the complexity of interactions between input variables encoded in DNNs. To this end, we focus on the multi-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Huiqi Deng , Qihan Ren , Hao Zhang , Quanshi Zhang

This paper aims to explain deep neural networks (DNNs) from the perspective of multivariate interactions. In this paper, we define and quantify the significance of interactions among multiple input variables of the DNN. Input variables with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Hao Zhang , Yichen Xie , Longjie Zheng , Die Zhang , Quanshi Zhang

This paper investigates the dynamics of a deep neural network (DNN) learning interactions. Previous studies have discovered and mathematically proven that given each input sample, a well-trained DNN usually only encodes a small number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Junpeng Zhang , Qing Li , Liang Lin , Quanshi Zhang

Visual scene understanding often requires the processing of human-object interactions. Here we seek to explore if and how well Deep Neural Network (DNN) models capture features similar to the brain's representation of humans, objects, and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-07 Aditi Jha , Sumeet Agarwal

Understanding what kinds of cooperative structures deep neural networks (DNNs) can represent remains a fundamental yet insufficiently understood problem. In this work, we treat interactions as the fundamental units of such structure and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Huiqi Deng , Qihan Ren , Zhuofan Chen , Zhenyuan Cui , Wen Shen , Peng Zhang , Hongbin Pei , Quanshi Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) with high expressiveness have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many tasks. However, their distributed feature representations are difficult to interpret semantically. In this work, human-interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on numerous applications. However, it is difficult to tell beforehand if a DNN receiving an input will deliver the correct output since their decision criteria are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Julia Lust , Alexandru Paul Condurache

DNNs have gained widespread adoption in feature interaction recommendation models. However, there has been a longstanding debate on their roles. On one hand, some works claim that DNNs possess the ability to implicitly capture high-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jiancheng Wang , Mingjia Yin , Hao Wang , Enhong Chen

In this work, we introduce a novel probabilistic representation of deep learning, which provides an explicit explanation for the Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in three aspects: (i) neurons define the energy of a Gibbs distribution; (ii) the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Xinjie Lan , Kenneth E. Barner

The capability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to recognize objects in orientations outside the distribution of the training data is not well understood. We present evidence that DNNs are capable of generalizing to objects in novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Avi Cooper , Xavier Boix , Daniel Harari , Spandan Madan , Hanspeter Pfister , Tomotake Sasaki , Pawan Sinha

This paper proposes a method to visualize the discrimination power of intermediate-layer visual patterns encoded by a DNN. Specifically, we visualize (1) how the DNN gradually learns regional visual patterns in each intermediate layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Mingjie Li , Shaobo Wang , Quanshi Zhang

This paper explores the intricate behavior of deep neural networks (DNNs) through the lens of neuron activation dynamics. We propose a probabilistic framework that can analyze models' neuron activation patterns as a stochastic process,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yizhou Zhang , Yang Sui

In natural language processing (NLP), deep neural networks (DNNs) could model complex interactions between context and have achieved impressive results on a range of NLP tasks. Prior works on feature interaction attribution mainly focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Xiaolei Lu , Jianghong Ma , Haode Zhang

Recently, a series of studies have tried to extract interactions between input variables modeled by a DNN and define such interactions as concepts encoded by the DNN. However, strictly speaking, there still lacks a solid guarantee whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Mingjie Li , Quanshi Zhang
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