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Interpretable entity representations (IERs) are sparse embeddings that are "human-readable" in that dimensions correspond to fine-grained entity types and values are predicted probabilities that a given entity is of the corresponding type.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Diego Garcia-Olano , Yasumasa Onoe , Joydeep Ghosh , Byron C. Wallace

Spuriousness arises when there is an association between two or more variables in a dataset that are not causally related. In this work, we propose an explainability framework to preemptively disentangle the nature of such spurious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Barproda Halder , Faisal Hamman , Pasan Dissanayake , Qiuyi Zhang , Ilia Sucholutsky , Sanghamitra Dutta

A recent line of work has shown promise in using sparse autoencoders (SAEs) to uncover interpretable features in neural network representations. However, the simple linear-nonlinear encoding mechanism in SAEs limits their ability to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Charles O'Neill , Alim Gumran , David Klindt

Improving the quality of underwater images is essential for advancing marine research and technology. This work introduces a sparsity-driven interpretable neural network (SINET) for the underwater image enhancement (UIE) task. Unlike pure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Gargi Panda , Soumitra Kundu , Saumik Bhattacharya , Aurobinda Routray

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) has the potential to enhance the transparency and trust of AI-based systems. Although accurate predictions can be made using Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), the process used to arrive at such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Bhushan Atote , Victor Sanchez

We introduce ProtoSeg, a novel model for interpretable semantic image segmentation, which constructs its predictions using similar patches from the training set. To achieve accuracy comparable to baseline methods, we adapt the mechanism of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Mikołaj Sacha , Dawid Rymarczyk , Łukasz Struski , Jacek Tabor , Bartosz Zieliński

While deep learning makes significant achievements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the lack of transparency has limited its broad application in various vertical domains. Explainability is not only a gateway between AI and real world, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Sheng Shi , Yangzhou Du , Wei Fan

To truly understand vision models, we must not only interpret their learned features but also validate these interpretations through controlled experiments. While earlier work offers either rich semantics or direct control, few post-hoc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Samuel Stevens , Wei-Lun Chao , Tanya Berger-Wolf , Yu Su

Conventionally, AI models are thought to trade off explainability for lower accuracy. We develop a training strategy that not only leads to a more explainable AI system for object classification, but as a consequence, suffers no perceptible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Andrea Zunino , Sarah Adel Bargal , Riccardo Volpi , Mehrnoosh Sameki , Jianming Zhang , Stan Sclaroff , Vittorio Murino , Kate Saenko

One of the pursued objectives of deep learning is to provide tools that learn abstract representations of reality from the observation of multiple contextual situations. More precisely, one wishes to extract disentangled representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Pierre Colombo , Nathan Noiry , Guillaume Staerman , Pablo Piantanida

Inferring the depth of images is a fundamental inverse problem within the field of Computer Vision since depth information is obtained through 2D images, which can be generated from infinite possibilities of observed real scenes. Benefiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Raul de Queiroz Mendes , Eduardo Godinho Ribeiro , Nicolas dos Santos Rosa , Valdir Grassi

In linear inverse problems, the goal is to recover a target signal from undersampled, incomplete or noisy linear measurements. Typically, the recovery relies on complex numerical optimization methods; recent approaches perform an unfolding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Evaggelia Tsiligianni , Nikos Deligiannis

One of the major challenges in machine learning nowadays is to provide predictions with not only high accuracy but also user-friendly explanations. Although in recent years we have witnessed increasingly popular use of deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Yao Ming , Panpan Xu , Huamin Qu , Liu Ren

A new brand of technical artificial intelligence ( Explainable AI ) research has focused on trying to open up the 'black box' and provide some explainability. This paper presents a novel visual explanation method for deep learning networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Satya M. Muddamsetty , Mohammad N. S. Jahromi , Thomas B. Moeslund

Learning disentangled representations of data is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence. Specifically, disentangled latent representations allow generative models to control and compose the disentangled factors in the synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Yotam Nitzan , Amit Bermano , Yangyan Li , Daniel Cohen-Or

The rapid advancement of generative models in creating highly realistic images poses substantial risks for misinformation dissemination. For instance, a synthetic image, when shared on social media, can mislead extensive audiences and erode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhenglin Huang , Jinwei Hu , Xiangtai Li , Yiwei He , Xingyu Zhao , Bei Peng , Baoyuan Wu , Xiaowei Huang , Guangliang Cheng

By highlighting the regions of the input image that contribute the most to the decision, saliency maps have become a popular method to make neural networks interpretable. In medical imaging, they are particularly well-suited to explain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Kaifeng Zou , Sylvain Faisan , Fabrice Heitz , Marie Epain , Pierre Croisille , Laurent Fanton , Sébastien Valette

Designing faithful yet accurate AI models is challenging, particularly in the field of individual treatment effect estimation (ITE). ITE prediction models deployed in critical settings such as healthcare should ideally be (i) accurate, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yinjun Wu , Mayank Keoliya , Kan Chen , Neelay Velingker , Ziyang Li , Emily J Getzen , Qi Long , Mayur Naik , Ravi B Parikh , Eric Wong

Part-prototype models are explainable-by-design image classifiers, and a promising alternative to black box AI. This paper explores the applicability and potential of interpretable machine learning, in particular PIP-Net, for automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Meike Nauta , Johannes H. Hegeman , Jeroen Geerdink , Jörg Schlötterer , Maurice van Keulen , Christin Seifert

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have received considerable recent attention as tools for mechanistic interpretability, showing success at extracting interpretable features even from very large LLMs. However, this research has been largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jeremy Budd , Javier Ideami , Benjamin Macdowall Rynne , Keith Duggar , Randall Balestriero