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In this paper, we introduce a new approach, called Posthoc Interpretation via Quantization (PIQ), for interpreting decisions made by trained classifiers. Our method utilizes vector quantization to transform the representations of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Francesco Paissan , Cem Subakan , Mirco Ravanelli

The prevalence of employing attention mechanisms has brought along concerns on the interpretability of attention distributions. Although it provides insights about how a model is operating, utilizing attention as the explanation of model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Tristan Gomez , Suiyi Ling , Thomas Fréour , Harold Mouchère

Several studies have recently pointed that existing Visual Question Answering (VQA) models heavily suffer from the language prior problem, which refers to capturing superficial statistical correlations between the question type and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yudong Han , Liqiang Nie , Jianhua Yin , Jianlong Wu , Yan Yan

We consider the problem of Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). The majority of current methods for VLN are trained end-to-end using either unstructured memory such as LSTM, or using cross-modal attention over the egocentric observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Georgios Georgakis , Karl Schmeckpeper , Karan Wanchoo , Soham Dan , Eleni Miltsakaki , Dan Roth , Kostas Daniilidis

Text images are unique in their dual nature, encompassing both visual and linguistic information. The visual component encompasses structural and appearance-based features, while the linguistic dimension incorporates contextual and semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yifei Zhang , Chang Liu , Jin Wei , Xiaomeng Yang , Yu Zhou , Can Ma , Xiangyang Ji

The ratio of outlier parameters in language pre-training models and vision pre-training models differs significantly, making cross-modality (language and vision) inherently more challenging than cross-domain adaptation. As a result, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yaxin Luo , Zhiqiang Shen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown strong potential for usage in sequential recommendation tasks through text-only models, which combine advanced prompt design, contrastive alignment, and fine-tuning on downstream…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sayak Chakrabarty , Souradip Pal

Language-audio joint representation learning frameworks typically depend on deterministic embeddings, assuming a one-to-one correspondence between audio and text. In real-world settings, however, the language-audio relationship is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Toranosuke Manabe , Yuchi Ishikawa , Hokuto Munakata , Tatsuya Komatsu

We focus on the task of language-conditioned object placement, in which a robot should generate placements that satisfy all the spatial relational constraints in language instructions. Previous works based on rule-based language parsing or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhixuan Xu , Kechun Xu , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

Over the last few years, deep learning based approaches have achieved outstanding improvements in natural image matting. Many of these methods can generate visually plausible alpha estimations, but typically yield blurry structures or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yaoyi Li , Hongtao Lu

Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have gained popularity for their strong open vocabulary classification performance, but they are prone to assigning high confidence scores to misclassifications, limiting their reliability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhenxiang Lin , Maryam Haghighat , Will Browne , Dimity Miller

We introduce a language-grounded visual prompting method to adapt the visual encoder of vision-language models for downstream tasks. By capitalizing on language integration, we devise a parameter-efficient strategy to adjust the input of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Nilakshan Kunananthaseelan , Jing Zhang , Mehrtash Harandi

Recent neural models for image captioning usually employ an encoder-decoder framework with an attention mechanism. However, the attention mechanism in such a framework aligns one single (attended) image feature vector to one caption word,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Lun Huang , Wenmin Wang , Yaxian Xia , Jie Chen

To interpret deep models' predictions, attention-based visual cues are widely used in addressing \textit{why} deep models make such predictions. Beyond that, the current research community becomes more interested in reasoning \textit{how}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Wenxiao Xiao , Zhengming Ding , Hongfu Liu

Navigation guided by natural language instructions presents a challenging reasoning problem for instruction followers. Natural language instructions typically identify only a few high-level decisions and landmarks rather than complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Daniel Fried , Ronghang Hu , Volkan Cirik , Anna Rohrbach , Jacob Andreas , Louis-Philippe Morency , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Kate Saenko , Dan Klein , Trevor Darrell

Accurately knowing uncertainties in appearance-based gaze tracking is critical for ensuring reliable downstream applications. Due to the lack of individual uncertainty labels, current uncertainty-aware approaches adopt probabilistic models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Qiaojie Zheng , Jiucai Zhang , Xiaoli Zhang

Despite the ability of text-to-image models to generate high-quality, realistic, and diverse images, they face challenges in compositional generation, often struggling to accurately represent details specified in the input prompt. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Parham Rezaei , Arash Marioriyad , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Understanding the decision-making process of machine learning models provides valuable insights into the task, the data, and the reasons behind a model's failures. In this work, we propose a method that performs inherently interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Moritz Vandenhirtz , Julia E. Vogt

Recently, attention based models have been used extensively in many sequence-to-sequence learning systems. Especially for image captioning, the attention based models are expected to ground correct image regions with proper generated words.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Fenglin Liu , Xuancheng Ren , Xian Wu , Wei Fan , Yuexian Zou , Xu Sun

Multi-scale inference is commonly used to improve the results of semantic segmentation. Multiple images scales are passed through a network and then the results are combined with averaging or max pooling. In this work, we present an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Andrew Tao , Karan Sapra , Bryan Catanzaro