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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have advanced applications in domains such as healthcare, autonomous systems, and scene understanding, yet the internal semantics of their hidden neurons remain poorly understood. Prior work introduced a Concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Moumita Sen Sarma , Samatha Ereshi Akkamahadevi , Pascal Hitzler

What types of numeric representations emerge in neural systems, and what would a satisfying answer to this question look like? In this work, we interpret Neural Network (NN) solutions to sequence based number tasks using a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Satchel Grant , Noah D. Goodman , James L. McClelland

Although Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have great generalization and prediction capabilities, their functioning does not allow a detailed explanation of their behavior. Opaque deep learning models are increasingly used to make important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Adrien Bennetot , Gianni Franchi , Javier Del Ser , Raja Chatila , Natalia Diaz-Rodriguez

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have revolutionized various fields by enabling task automation and reducing human error. However, their internal workings and decision-making processes remain obscure due to their black box nature. Consequently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Purushothaman Natarajan , Athira Nambiar

Interpretable graph neural networks (XGNNs ) are widely adopted in various scientific applications involving graph-structured data. Existing XGNNs predominantly adopt the attention-based mechanism to learn edge or node importance for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yongqiang Chen , Yatao Bian , Bo Han , James Cheng

Clustering is a fundamental learning task widely used as a first step in data analysis. For example, biologists use cluster assignments to analyze genome sequences, medical records, or images. Since downstream analysis is typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jonathan Svirsky , Ofir Lindenbaum

Tabular data builds the basis for a wide range of applications, yet real-world datasets are frequently incomplete due to collection errors, privacy restrictions, or sensor failures. As missing values degrade the performance or hinder the…

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to outperform traditional machine learning algorithms in a broad variety of application domains due to their effectiveness in modeling complex problems and handling high-dimensional datasets. Many…

Pathology plays an important role in disease diagnosis, treatment decision-making and drug development. Previous works on interpretability for machine learning models on pathology images have revolved around methods such as attention value…

Sparse autoencoders are a standard tool for uncovering interpretable latent representations in neural networks. Yet, their interpretation depends on the inputs, making their isolated study incomplete. Polynomials offer a solution; they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Thomas Dooms , Ward Gauderis

Tabular data are omnipresent in various sectors of industries. Neural networks for tabular data such as TabNet have been proposed to make predictions while leveraging the attention mechanism for interpretability. However, the inferred…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Jacob Si , Wendy Yusi Cheng , Michael Cooper , Rahul G. Krishnan

With the popularity of deep neural networks (DNNs), model interpretability is becoming a critical concern. Many approaches have been developed to tackle the problem through post-hoc analysis, such as explaining how predictions are made or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Haixing Dai , Lu Zhang , Lin Zhao , Zihao Wu , Zhengliang Liu , David Liu , Xiaowei Yu , Yanjun Lyu , Changying Li , Ninghao Liu , Tianming Liu , Dajiang Zhu

Tabular data analysis presents unique challenges that arise from heterogeneous feature types, missing values, and complex feature interactions. While traditional machine learning methods like gradient boosting often outperform deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ali Eslamian , Alireza Afzal Aghaei , Qiang Cheng

A central goal for mechanistic interpretability has been to identify the right units of analysis in large language models (LLMs) that causally explain their outputs. While early work focused on individual neurons, evidence that neurons…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Or Shafran , Atticus Geiger , Mor Geva

Deep neural networks based on layer-stacking architectures have historically suffered from poor inherent interpretability. Meanwhile, symbolic probabilistic models function with clear interpretability, but how to combine them with neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Xiang Hu , Xinyu Kong , Kewei Tu

This paper introduces the Descriptive Variational Autoencoder (DVAE), an unsupervised and end-to-end trainable neural network for predicting vehicle trajectories that provides partial interpretability. The novel approach is based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Marion Neumeier , Andreas Tollkühn , Thomas Berberich , Michael Botsch

Deep neural networks have been well-known for their superb handling of various machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks. However, due to their over-parameterized black-box nature, it is often difficult to understand the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Xuhong Li , Haoyi Xiong , Xingjian Li , Xuanyu Wu , Xiao Zhang , Ji Liu , Jiang Bian , Dejing Dou

Many Machine Learning algorithms, such as deep neural networks, have long been criticized for being "black-boxes"-a kind of models unable to provide how it arrive at a decision without further efforts to interpret. This problem has raised…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-04 Yihuang Kang , I-Ling Cheng , Wenjui Mao , Bowen Kuo , Pei-Ju Lee

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has been incorporated into many state-of-the-art models in various domains, where SSL defines pretext tasks based on unlabeled datasets to learn contextualized and robust representations. Recently, SSL has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Wei-Yao Wang , Wei-Wei Du , Derek Xu , Wei Wang , Wen-Chih Peng