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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

Recently, outstanding identification rates in image classification tasks were achieved by convolutional neural networks (CNNs). to use such skills, selective CNNs trained on a dataset of well-known images of metal surface defects captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Nadeem Jabbar Chaudhry , M. Bilal Khan , M. Javaid Iqbal , Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir

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

Feed-forward convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are currently state-of-the-art for object classification tasks such as ImageNet. Further, they are quantitatively accurate models of temporally-averaged responses of neurons in the primate…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-30 Aran Nayebi , Daniel Bear , Jonas Kubilius , Kohitij Kar , Surya Ganguli , David Sussillo , James J. DiCarlo , Daniel L. K. Yamins

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

Convoulutional Neural Networks (CNNs) exhibit extraordinary performance on a variety of machine learning tasks. However, their mathematical properties and behavior are quite poorly understood. There is some work, in the form of a framework,…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2016-10-30 Jayanth Koushik

This paper presents an unsupervised method to learn a neural network, namely an explainer, to interpret a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN), i.e., explaining knowledge representations hidden in middle conv-layers of the CNN.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Quanshi Zhang , Yu Yang , Yuchen Liu , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu

Concept-based explanations translate the internal representations of deep learning models into a language that humans are familiar with: concepts. One popular method for finding concepts is Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs), which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Angus Nicolson , Lisa Schut , J. Alison Noble , Yarin Gal

Previous models for learning entity and relationship embeddings of knowledge graphs such as TransE, TransH, and TransR aim to explore new links based on learned representations. However, these models interpret relationships as simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Feipeng Zhao , Martin Renqiang Min , Chen Shen , Amit Chakraborty

An important goal in visual recognition is to devise image representations that are invariant to particular transformations. In this paper, we address this goal with a new type of convolutional neural network (CNN) whose invariance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Julien Mairal , Piotr Koniusz , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

Interpreting the decision logic behind effective deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) on images complements the success of deep learning models. However, the existing methods can only interpret some specific decision logic on individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Peter Cho-Ho Lam , Lingyang Chu , Maxim Torgonskiy , Jian Pei , Yong Zhang , Lanjun Wang

Understanding when and how linguistic knowledge emerges during language model training remains a central challenge for interpretability. Most existing tools are post hoc, rely on scalar metrics, or require nontrivial integration effort,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Nura Aljaafari , Danilo S. Carvalho , André Freitas

Current research in Computer Vision has shown that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) give state-of-the-art performance in many classification tasks and Computer Vision problems. The embedding of CNN, which is the internal representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Axel Angel

Concept-based explanations for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) aim to explain model behavior and outputs using a pre-defined set of semantic concepts (e.g., the model recognizes scene class ``bedroom'' based on the presence of concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Vikram V. Ramaswamy , Sunnie S. Y. Kim , Ruth Fong , Olga Russakovsky

Modern cosmological research in large scale structure has witnessed an increasing number of applications of machine learning methods. Among them, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have received substantial attention due to their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Zhengyangguang Gong , Anik Halder , Annabelle Bohrdt , Stella Seitz , David Gebauer

The adoption of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models in high-stake domains is hindered by their inability to meet society's demand for transparency in decision-making. So far, a growing number of methodologies have emerged for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 George Dimas , Eirini Cholopoulou , Dimitris K. Iakovidis

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have exhibited great performance in discriminative feature learning for complex visual tasks. Besides discrimination power, interpretability is another important yet under-explored property for CNNs. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wengang Guo , Jiayi Yang , Huilin Yin , Qijun Chen , Wei Ye

In the computer vision community, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), first proposed in the 1980's, have become the standard visual classification model. Recently, as alternatives to CNNs, Capsule Networks (CapsNets) and Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Jindong Gu

In this paper we introduce a new problem within the growing literature of interpretability for convolution neural networks (CNNs). While previous work has focused on the question of how to visually interpret CNNs, we ask what it is that we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Sílvia Casacuberta , Esra Suel , Seth Flaxman

Deep networks have shown remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, yet getting a global concept-level understanding of how they function remains a key challenge. Many post-hoc concept-based approaches have been introduced to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Amin Parchami-Araghi , Sukrut Rao , Jonas Fischer , Bernt Schiele