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Large Language Models (LLMs) have become indispensable tools in science, technology, and society, enabling transformative advances across diverse fields. However, errors or outdated information within these models can undermine their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Qizhou Chen , Chengyu Wang , Taolin Zhang , Xiaofeng He

Recent research on graph neural network (GNN) models successfully applied GNNs to classical graph algorithms and combinatorial optimisation problems. This has numerous benefits, such as allowing applications of algorithms when preconditions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Dobrik Georgiev , Pietro Barbiero , Dmitry Kazhdan , Petar Veličković , Pietro Liò

Deep learning models have achieved strong performance in medical image analysis, but their internal decision processes remain difficult to interpret. Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) partially address this limitation by structuring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Getamesay Dagnaw , Xuefei Yin , Muhammad Hassan Maqsood , Yanming Zhu , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

Concept bottleneck models have been successfully used for explainable machine learning by encoding information within the model with a set of human-defined concepts. In the context of human-assisted or autonomous driving, explainability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jessica Echterhoff , An Yan , Kyungtae Han , Amr Abdelraouf , Rohit Gupta , Julian McAuley

We are concerned with the challenge of reliably classifying and assessing intracranial aneurysms using deep learning without compromising clinical transparency. While traditional black-box models achieve high predictive accuracy, their lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Toqa Khaled , Ahmad Al-Kabbany

Pretrained language models (PLMs) have made significant strides in various natural language processing tasks. However, the lack of interpretability due to their ``black-box'' nature poses challenges for responsible implementation. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Zhen Tan , Lu Cheng , Song Wang , Yuan Bo , Jundong Li , Huan Liu

This paper addresses explainable AI (XAI) through the lens of Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) that do not require explicit concept annotations, relying instead on concepts extracted using CLIP in a zero-shot manner. We show that CLIP,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Rémi Kazmierczak , Steve Azzolin , Eloïse Berthier , Goran Frehse , Gianni Franchi

Concept bottleneck models perform classification by first predicting which of a list of human provided concepts are true about a datapoint. Then a downstream model uses these predicted concept labels to predict the target label. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Joshua Lockhart , Nicolas Marchesotti , Daniele Magazzeni , Manuela Veloso

Recently, there has been a growing interest in knowledge editing for Large Language Models (LLMs). Current approaches and evaluations merely explore the instance-level editing, while whether LLMs possess the capability to modify concepts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xiaohan Wang , Shengyu Mao , Ningyu Zhang , Shumin Deng , Yunzhi Yao , Yue Shen , Lei Liang , Jinjie Gu , Huajun Chen

We introduce the Consensus-Bottleneck Asset Pricing Model (CB-APM), which embeds aggregate analyst consensus as a structural bottleneck, treating professional beliefs as a sufficient statistic for the market's high-dimensional information…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-27 Changeun Kim , Younwoo Jeong , Bong-Gyu Jang

Interpretability and explainability of neural networks is continuously increasing in importance, especially within safety-critical domains and to provide the social right to explanation. Concept based explanations align well with how humans…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Rishabh Jain

Consistency Models (CMs) have showed a promise in creating visual content efficiently and with high quality. However, the way to add new conditional controls to the pretrained CMs has not been explored. In this technical report, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jie Xiao , Kai Zhu , Han Zhang , Zhiheng Liu , Yujun Shen , Yu Liu , Xueyang Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha

Two traditions of interpretability have evolved side by side but seldom spoken to each other: Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs), which prescribe what a concept should be, and Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs), which discover what concepts emerge.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Alexandre Rocchi--Henry , Thomas Fel , Gianni Franchi

Conditional generative models are capable of using contextual information as input to create new imaginative outputs. Conditional Restricted Boltzmann Machines (CRBMs) are one class of conditional generative models that have proven to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Alex H. Lang , Anton D. Loukianov , Charles K. Fisher

We seek to learn models that we can interact with using high-level concepts: if the model did not think there was a bone spur in the x-ray, would it still predict severe arthritis? State-of-the-art models today do not typically support the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Pang Wei Koh , Thao Nguyen , Yew Siang Tang , Stephen Mussmann , Emma Pierson , Been Kim , Percy Liang

Concept-based explanations work by mapping complex model computations to human-understandable concepts. Evaluating such explanations is very difficult, as it includes not only the quality of the induced space of possible concepts but also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Antonin Poché , Alon Jacovi , Agustin Martin Picard , Victor Boutin , Fanny Jourdan

Deep learning has advanced NLP, but interpretability remains limited, especially in healthcare and finance. Concept bottleneck models tie predictions to human concepts in vision, but NLP versions either use binary activations that harm text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yibo Yang

Custom diffusion models (CDMs) have attracted widespread attention due to their astonishing generative ability for personalized concepts. However, most existing CDMs unreasonably assume that personalized concepts are fixed and cannot change…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jiahua Dong , Wenqi Liang , Hongliu Li , Duzhen Zhang , Meng Cao , Henghui Ding , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Continual learning aims to update models under distribution shift without forgetting, yet many high-stakes deployments, such as healthcare, also require interpretability. In practice, models that adapt well (e.g., deep networks) are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Dongkyu Cho , Xiyue Li , Samrachana Adhikari , Rumi Chunara

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming scientific research, with explainable AI methods like concept-based models (CMs) showing promise for new discoveries. However, in molecular science, CMs are less common than black-box models like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zimin Zhang , Qianli Wu , Botao Xia , Fang Sun , Ziniu Hu , Yizhou Sun , Shichang Zhang