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There has been significant focus on creating neuro-symbolic models for interpretable image classification using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). These methods aim to replace the CNN with a neuro-symbolic model consisting of the CNN,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Parth Padalkar , Jaeseong Lee , Shiyi Wei , Gopal Gupta

Unsupervised Concept Extraction aims to extract concepts from a single image; however, existing methods suffer from the inability to extract composable intrinsic concepts. To address this, this paper introduces a new task called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hanyu Shi , Hong Tao , Guoheng Huang , Jianbin Jiang , Xuhang Chen , Chi-Man Pun , Shanhu Wang , Pan Pan

Composed image retrieval which combines a reference image and a text modifier to identify the desired target image is a challenging task, and requires the model to comprehend both vision and language modalities and their interactions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shu Zhao , Huijuan Xu

This paper proposes a deep neural network structure that exploits edge information in addressing representative low-level vision tasks such as layer separation and image filtering. Unlike most other deep learning strategies applied in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Qingnan Fan , Jiaolong Yang , Gang Hua , Baoquan Chen , David Wipf

Sparse auto-encoders (SAEs) have re-emerged as a prominent method for mechanistic interpretability, yet they face two significant challenges: the non-smoothness of the $L_1$ penalty, which hinders reconstruction and scalability, and a lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ouns El Harzli , Hugo Wallner , Yoonsoo Nam , Haixuan Xavier Tao

Recent work on sparse autoencoders (SAEs) has shown promise in extracting interpretable features from neural networks and addressing challenges with polysemantic neurons caused by superposition. In this paper, we apply SAEs to the early…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Liv Gorton

Making an informed, correct and quick decision can be life-saving. It's crucial for animals during an escape behaviour or for autonomous cars during driving. The decision can be complex and may involve an assessment of the amount of threats…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Hannes Rapp , Martin Paul Nawrot , Merav Stern

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) are widely used to interpret neural networks by identifying meaningful concepts from their representations. However, do SAEs truly uncover all concepts a model relies on, or are they inherently biased toward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Sai Sumedh R. Hindupur , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Thomas Fel , Demba Ba

Image denoising can remove natural noise that widely exists in images captured by multimedia devices due to low-quality imaging sensors, unstable image transmission processes, or low light conditions. Recent works also find that image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Yupeng Cheng , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Wei Feng , Shang-Wei Lin , Weisi Lin , Yang Liu

Machine unlearning for text-to-image diffusion models aims to selectively remove undesirable concepts from pre-trained models without costly retraining. Current unlearning methods share a common weakness: erased concepts return when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Aljalila Aladawi , Mohammed Talha Alam , Fakhri Karray

Despite significant progress toward super resolving more realistic images by deeper convolutional neural networks (CNNs), reconstructing fine and natural textures still remains a challenging problem. Recent works on single image super…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Mohammad Saeed Rad , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Claudiu Musat , Urs-Viktor Marti , Max Basler , Hazim Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Interpreting neural activity through meaningful latent representations remains a complex and evolving challenge at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. We investigate the potential of multimodal foundation models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yijun Liu

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, the need to selectively remove unwanted knowledge while preserving model utility has become paramount. Recent work has explored sparse autoencoders (SAEs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tomer Ashuach , Dana Arad , Aaron Mueller , Martin Tutek , Yonatan Belinkov

Post-hoc unlearning has emerged as a practical mechanism for removing undesirable concepts from large text-to-image diffusion models. However, prior work primarily evaluates unlearning through erasure success; its impact on broader…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Arian Komaei Koma , Seyed Amir Kasaei , Ali Aghayari , AmirMahdi Sadeghzadeh , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) networks trained with perceptual and adversarial losses provide high-contrast outputs compared to those of networks trained with distortion-oriented losses, such as L1 or L2. However, it has been shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Seung Ho Park , Young Su Moon , Nam Ik Cho

State-of-the-art Diffusion Models (DMs) produce highly realistic images. While prior work has successfully mitigated Not Safe For Work (NSFW) content in the visual domain, we identify a novel threat: the generation of NSFW text embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Aditya Kumar , Tom Blanchard , Adam Dziedzic , Franziska Boenisch

In this paper, we present TOSS, which introduces text to the task of novel view synthesis (NVS) from just a single RGB image. While Zero-1-to-3 has demonstrated impressive zero-shot open-set NVS capability, it treats NVS as a pure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yukai Shi , Jianan Wang , He Cao , Boshi Tang , Xianbiao Qi , Tianyu Yang , Yukun Huang , Shilong Liu , Lei Zhang , Heung-Yeung Shum

Removing unwanted concepts from large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models while maintaining their overall generative quality remains an open challenge. This difficulty is especially pronounced in emerging paradigms, such as Stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Daiheng Gao , Shilin Lu , Shaw Walters , Wenbo Zhou , Jiaming Chu , Jie Zhang , Bang Zhang , Mengxi Jia , Jian Zhao , Zhaoxin Fan , Weiming Zhang

Diffusion models have transformed image generation, yet controlling their outputs to reliably erase undesired concepts remains challenging. Existing approaches usually require task-specific training and struggle to generalize across both…

Image enhancement approaches often assume that the noise is signal independent, and approximate the degradation model as zero-mean additive Gaussian. However, this assumption does not hold for biomedical imaging systems where sensor-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Calvin-Khang Ta , Abhishek Aich , Akash Gupta , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury