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Deep graph learning models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in processing graph-structured data and have been widely applied across various fields. However, their complex internal architectures and lack of transparency make it…

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Classifiers are important components in many computer vision tasks, serving as the foundational backbone of a wide variety of models employed across diverse applications. However, understanding the decision-making process of classifiers…

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We introduce Hyper Input Convex Neural Networks (HyCNNs), a novel neural network architecture designed for learning convex functions. HyCNNs combine the principles of Maxout networks with input convex neural networks (ICNNs) to create a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Shayan Hundrieser , Insung Kong , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

Interpretability is essential for machine learning algorithms in high-stakes application fields such as medical image analysis. However, high-performing black-box neural networks do not provide explanations for their predictions, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Susu Sun , Stefano Woerner , Andreas Maier , Lisa M. Koch , Christian F. Baumgartner

Deep learning models achieve remarkable predictive performance, yet their black-box nature limits transparency and trustworthiness. Although numerous explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods have been proposed, they primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jiarui Li , Zixiang Yin , Samuel J Landry , Zhengming Ding , Ramgopal R. Mettu

Evaluating synthetic tabular data is challenging, since they can differ from the real data in so many ways. There exist numerous metrics of synthetic data quality, ranging from statistical distances to predictive performance, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Jan Kapar , Niklas Koenen , Martin Jullum

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) integrates deeper into diverse sectors, the quest for powerful models has intensified. While significant strides have been made in boosting model capabilities and their applicability across domains, a glaring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Shiyun Wa , Xinai Lu , Minjuan Wang

With the prevalence of deep learning based embedding approaches, recommender systems have become a proven and indispensable tool in various information filtering applications. However, many of them remain difficult to diagnose what aspects…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yao Zhou , Haonan Wang , Jingrui He , Haixun Wang

Machine learning models need to provide contrastive explanations, since people often seek to understand why a puzzling prediction occurred instead of some expected outcome. Current contrastive explanations are rudimentary comparisons…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Wencan Zhang , Brian Y. Lim

By providing explanations for users and system designers to facilitate better understanding and decision making, explainable recommendation has been an important research problem. In this paper, we propose Counterfactual Explainable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Juntao Tan , Shuyuan Xu , Yingqiang Ge , Yunqi Li , Xu Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

An emerging solution for explaining Transformer-based models is to use vector-based analysis on how the representations are formed. However, providing a faithful vector-based explanation for a multi-layer model could be challenging in three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ali Modarressi , Mohsen Fayyaz , Ehsan Aghazadeh , Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Data in tabular format is frequently occurring in real-world applications. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently been extended to effectively handle such data, allowing feature interactions to be captured through representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Amr Alkhatib , Sofiane Ennadir , Henrik Boström , Michalis Vazirgiannis

In this study, we introduce the Multi-Head Explainer (MHEX), a versatile and modular framework that enhances both the explainability and accuracy of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based models. MHEX consists of three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Bohang Sun , Pietro Liò

Counterfactual inference is a powerful tool, capable of solving challenging problems in high-profile sectors. To perform counterfactual inference, one requires knowledge of the underlying causal mechanisms. However, causal mechanisms cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Athanasios Vlontzos , Bernhard Kainz , Ciaran M. Gilligan-Lee

We introduce a method to learn a hierarchy of successively more abstract representations of complex data based on optimizing an information-theoretic objective. Intuitively, the optimization searches for a set of latent factors that best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

Counterfactual explanations emerge as a powerful approach in explainable AI, providing what-if scenarios that reveal how minimal changes to an input time series can alter the model's prediction. This work presents a survey of recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Udo Schlegel , Thomas Seidl

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to perform well on exclusive, multi-class classification tasks. However, when different classes have similar visual features, it becomes challenging for human annotators to differentiate them.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Changbin Li , Kangshuo Li , Yuzhe Ou , Lance M. Kaplan , Audun Jøsang , Jin-Hee Cho , Dong Hyun Jeong , Feng Chen

Concept-driven counterfactuals explain decisions of classifiers by altering the model predictions through semantic changes. In this paper, we present a novel approach that leverages cross-modal decompositionality and image-specific concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Alina Elena Baia , Andrea Cavallaro

There is a broad consensus on the importance of deep learning models in tasks involving complex data. Often, an adequate understanding of these models is required when focusing on the transparency of decisions in human-critical…

The ability of deep networks to learn superior representations hinges on leveraging the proper inductive biases, considering the inherent properties of datasets. In tabular domains, it is critical to effectively handle heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Kyungeun Lee , Ye Seul Sim , Hye-Seung Cho , Moonjung Eo , Suhee Yoon , Sanghyu Yoon , Woohyung Lim