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Neural network have achieved remarkable successes in many scientific fields. However, the interpretability of the neural network model is still a major bottlenecks to deploy such technique into our daily life. The challenge can dive into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Zhimin Li , Shusen Liu , Kailkhura Bhavya , Timo Bremer , Valerio Pascucci

How can we find interpretable, domain-appropriate models of natural phenomena given some complex, raw data such as images? Can we use such models to derive scientific insight from the data? In this paper, we propose some methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Christopher J. Soelistyo , Alan R. Lowe

Dense 3D shape correspondence remains a central challenge in computer vision and graphics as many deep learning approaches still rely on intermediate geometric features or handcrafted descriptors, limiting their effectiveness under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Maolin Gao , Shao Jie Hu-Chen , Congyue Deng , Riccardo Marin , Leonidas Guibas , Daniel Cremers

Deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve remarkable predictive performance but remain difficult to interpret, largely due to overparameterization that obscures the minimal structure required for interpretation. Here we introduce DeepIn, a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-26 Zhiyao Tan , Liu Li , Huazhen Lin

For optimization models to be used in practice, it is crucial that users trust the results. A key factor in this aspect is the interpretability of the solution process. A previous framework for inherently interpretable optimization models…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Marc Goerigk , Michael Hartisch , Sebastian Merten , Kartikey Sharma

In a K-best detector for multiple-input-multiple-output(MIMO) systems, the value of K needs to be sufficiently large to achieve near-maximum-likelihood (ML) performance. By treating K as a variable that can be adjusted according to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-10 Haomiao Huo , Jindan Xu , Gege Su , Wei Xu , Ning Wang

There are two things to be considered when we evaluate predictive models. One is prediction accuracy,and the other is interpretability. Over the recent decades, many prediction models of high performance, such as ensemble-based models and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-05 Yongchan Choi , Seokhun Park , Chanmoo Park , Dongha Kim , Yongdai Kim

Psychiatric questionnaires are highly context sensitive and often only weakly predict subsequent symptom severity, which makes the prognostic relationship difficult to learn. Although flexible nonlinear models can improve predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Eric V. Strobl

Neural networks achieve outstanding accuracy in classification and regression tasks. However, understanding their behavior still remains an open challenge that requires questions to be addressed on the robustness, explainability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Anna-Kathrin Kopetzki , Stephan Günnemann

Intelligibility and accurate uncertainty estimation are crucial for reliable decision-making. In this paper, we propose EviNAM, an extension of evidential learning that integrates the interpretability of Neural Additive Models (NAMs) with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Sören Schleibaum , Anton Frederik Thielmann , Julian Teusch , Benjamin Säfken , Jörg P. Müller

Interpretable machine learning tackles the important problem that humans cannot understand the behaviors of complex machine learning models and how these models arrive at a particular decision. Although many approaches have been proposed, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Mengnan Du , Ninghao Liu , Xia Hu

Clinical adoption of deep learning models has been hindered, in part, because the black-box nature of neural networks leads to concerns regarding their trustworthiness and reliability. These concerns are particularly relevant in the field…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Lindsay Munroe , Mariana da Silva , Faezeh Heidari , Irina Grigorescu , Simon Dahan , Emma C. Robinson , Maria Deprez , Po-Wah So

Interpreting a nonparametric regression model with many predictors is known to be a challenging problem. There has been renewed interest in this topic due to the extensive use of machine learning algorithms and the difficulty in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-11 Xiaoyu Liu , Jie Chen , Joel Vaughan , Vijayan Nair , Agus Sudjianto

Understanding why a model made a certain prediction is crucial in many data science fields. Interpretable predictions engender appropriate trust and provide insight into how the model may be improved. However, with large modern datasets the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Scott Lundberg , Su-In Lee

Machine learning models that first learn a representation of a domain in terms of human-understandable concepts, then use it to make predictions, have been proposed to facilitate interpretation and interaction with models trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Isaac Lage , Finale Doshi-Velez

This paper concerns the development of an inferential framework for high-dimensional linear mixed effect models. These are suitable models, for instance, when we have $n$ repeated measurements for $M$ subjects. We consider a scenario where…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-17 Lina Lin , Mathias Drton , Ali Shojaie

Machine learning has shown much promise in helping improve the quality of medical, legal, and financial decision-making. In these applications, machine learning models must satisfy two important criteria: (i) they must be causal, since the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Carolyn Kim , Osbert Bastani

When quantitative models are used to support decision-making on complex and important topics, understanding a model's ``reasoning'' can increase trust in its predictions, expose hidden biases, or reduce vulnerability to adversarial attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Dimitris Bertsimas , Arthur Delarue , Patrick Jaillet , Sebastien Martin

Concurrent to the rapid progress in the development of neural-network based models in areas like natural language processing and computer vision, the need for creating explanations for the predictions of these black-box models has risen…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Marc Brinner , Sina Zarriess

Deep learning models are favored in many research and industry areas and have reached the accuracy of approximating or even surpassing human level. However they've long been considered by researchers as black-box models for their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Xiaojian Wang , Jingyuan Wang , Ke Tang