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We introduce Graph Concept Bottleneck (GCB) as a new paradigm for self-explainable text-attributed graph learning. GCB maps graphs into a subspace, concept bottleneck, where each concept is a meaningful phrase, and predictions are made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xiaoxue Han , Libo Zhang , Zining Zhu , Yue Ning

Many interpretable AI approaches have been proposed to provide plausible explanations for a model's decision-making. However, configuring an explainable model that effectively communicates among computational modules has received less…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Jinyung Hong , Keun Hee Park , Theodore P. Pavlic

Deep neural networks excel at finding hierarchical representations that solve complex tasks over large data sets. How can we humans understand these learned representations? In this work, we present network dissection, an analytic framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu , Hendrik Strobelt , Agata Lapedriza , Bolei Zhou , Antonio Torralba

Converging evidence suggests that the mammalian ventral visual pathway encodes increasingly complex stimulus features in downstream areas. Using deep convolutional neural networks, we can now quantitatively demonstrate that there is indeed…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-03-13 Umut Güçlü , Marcel A. J. van Gerven

Circuit representation learning has shown promising results in advancing the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Existing models, such as DeepGate Family, primarily utilize Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to encode circuit netlists…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zhengyuan Shi , Ziyang Zheng , Sadaf Khan , Jianyuan Zhong , Min Li , Qiang Xu

Human brains respond to semantic features of presented stimuli with different neurons. It is then curious whether modern deep neural networks admit a similar behavior pattern. Specifically, this paper finds a small cluster of neurons in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Zhiheng Liu , Ruili Feng , Kai Zhu , Yifei Zhang , Kecheng Zheng , Yu Liu , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou , Yang Cao

Deep vision models often rely on biases learned from spurious correlations in datasets. To identify these biases, methods that interpret high-level, human-understandable concepts are more effective than those relying primarily on low-level…

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Graph collaborative filtering (GCF) has gained considerable attention in recommendation systems by leveraging graph learning techniques to enhance collaborative filtering (CF). One classical approach in GCF is to learn user and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Xiangmeng Wang , Qian Li , Dianer Yu , Wei Huang , Guandong Xu

Understanding how people represent categories is a core problem in cognitive science. Decades of research have yielded a variety of formal theories of categories, but validating them with naturalistic stimuli is difficult. The challenge is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Joshua C. Peterson , Jordan W. Suchow , Krisha Aghi , Alexander Y. Ku , Thomas L. Griffiths

Neural network models are widely used in a variety of domains, often as black-box solutions, since they are not directly interpretable for humans. The field of explainable artificial intelligence aims at developing explanation methods to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Patrik Hammersborg , Inga Strümke

Fine-grained visual categorization is a classification task for distinguishing categories with high intra-class and small inter-class variance. While global approaches aim at using the whole image for performing the classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Dimitri Korsch , Paul Bodesheim , Joachim Denzler

Reconstructing seeing images from fMRI recordings is an absorbing research area in neuroscience and provides a potential brain-reading technology. The challenge lies in that visual encoding in brain is highly complex and not fully revealed.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Tao Fang , Yu Qi , Gang Pan

Deep Neural Network has shown great strides in the coarse-grained image classification task. It was in part due to its strong ability to extract discriminative feature representations from the images. However, the marginal visual difference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Prateek Shroff , Tianlong Chen , Yunchao Wei , Zhangyang Wang

Modern deep networks are highly complex and their inferential outcome very hard to interpret. This is a serious obstacle to their transparent deployment in safety-critical or bias-aware applications. This work contributes to post-hoc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Konstantinos P. Panousis , Sotirios Chatzis

Background: Neuro-symbolic methods enhance the reliability of neural network classifiers through logical constraints, but they lack native support for ontologies. Objectives: We aim to develop a neuro-symbolic method that reliably outputs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Nicolas Lazzari , Valentina Presutti , Antonio Vergari

A widely used strategy to discover and understand language model mechanisms is circuit analysis. A circuit is a minimal subgraph of a model's computation graph that executes a specific task. We identify a gap in existing circuit discovery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Tal Haklay , Hadas Orgad , David Bau , Aaron Mueller , Yonatan Belinkov

Concept-based machine learning methods have increasingly gained importance due to the growing interest in making neural networks interpretable. However, concept annotations are generally challenging to obtain, making it crucial to leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Alba Carballo-Castro , Sonia Laguna , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Julia E. Vogt

Concept-based approaches, which aim to identify human-understandable concepts within a model's internal representations, are a promising method for interpreting embeddings from deep neural network models, such as CLIP. While these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jitian Zhao , Chenghui Li , Frederic Sala , Karl Rohe

Concept-based Models are neural networks that learn a concept extractor to map inputs to high-level concepts and an inference layer to translate these into predictions. Ensuring these modules produce interpretable concepts and behave…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Samuele Bortolotti , Emanuele Marconato , Paolo Morettin , Andrea Passerini , Stefano Teso

Work at the intersection of vision science and deep learning is starting to explore the efficacy of deep convolutional networks (DCNs) and recurrent networks in solving perceptual grouping problems that underlie primate visual recognition…

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