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The hippocampal-entorhinal complex plays a major role in the organization of memory and thought. The formation of and navigation in cognitive maps of arbitrary mental spaces via place and grid cells can serve as a representation of memories…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-31 Paul Stoewer , Achim Schilling , Andreas Maier , Patrick Krauss

Despite neural networks (NN) have been widely applied in various fields and generally outperforms humans, they still lack interpretability to a certain extent, and humans are unable to intuitively understand the decision logic of NN. This…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Zhanliang He , Nuoye Xiong , Hongsheng Li , Peiyi Shen , Guangming Zhu , Liang Zhang

The reasoning process of Graph Neural Networks is complex and considered opaque, limiting trust in their predictions. To alleviate this issue, prior work has proposed concept-based explanations, extracted from clusters in the model's node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Lucie Charlotte Magister , Alexander Norcliffe , Iulia Duta , Pietro Lio

In complex inferential tasks like question answering, machine learning models must confront two challenges: the need to implement a compositional reasoning process, and, in many applications, the need for this reasoning process to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Ronghang Hu , Jacob Andreas , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

For complex life to evolve, a sophisticated nervous system for handling its complexities was fundamental. The demand resulted in the emergence of brain's computational facility, the neuronal network. This facet of the brain is attested…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-16 Jahan N. Schad

Individual-intelligence research, from a neurological perspective, discusses the hierarchical layers of the cortex as a structure that performs conceptual abstraction and specification. This theory has been used to explain how motor-cortex…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Marko A. Rodriguez

A central idea in understanding brains and building artificial intelligence is that structure determines function. Yet, how the brain's complex structure arises from a limited set of genetic instructions remains a key question. The ultra…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-28 Xingyu Liu , Yubin Li , Guozhang Chen

Recent advances in computational models of signal propagation and routing in the human brain have underscored the critical role of white matter structure. A complementary approach has utilized the framework of network control theory to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-03-15 Pragya Srivastava , Erfan Nozari , Jason Z. Kim , Harang Ju , Dale Zhou , Cassiano Becker , Fabio Pasqualetti , Danielle S. Bassett

Humans have the ability to rapidly understand rich combinatorial concepts from limited data. Here we investigate this ability in the context of auditory signals, which have been evolved in a cultural transmission experiment to study the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Matthias Hofer , Tuan Anh Le , Roger Levy , Josh Tenenbaum

The black-box nature of deep learning models prevents them from being completely trusted in domains like biomedicine. Most explainability techniques do not capture the concept-based reasoning that human beings follow. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Avinash Kori , Parth Natekar , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi , Balaji Srinivasan

Machine comprehension question answering, which finds an answer to the question given a passage, involves high-level reasoning processes of understanding and tracking the relevant contents across various semantic units such as words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Minjeong Kim , David Keetae Park , Hyungjong Noh , Yeonsoo Lee , Jaegul Choo

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

In many scenarios, human decisions are explained based on some high-level concepts. In this work, we take a step in the interpretability of neural networks by examining their internal representation or neuron's activations against concepts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Mohammad Nokhbeh Zaeem , Majid Komeili

Concept-based explainability methods provide insight into deep learning systems by constructing explanations using human-understandable concepts. While the literature on human reasoning demonstrates that we exploit relationships between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Naveen Raman , Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga , Mateja Jamnik

Many complex problems are naturally understood in terms of symbolic concepts. For example, our concept of "cat" is related to our concepts of "ears" and "whiskers" in a non-arbitrary way. Fodor (1998) proposes one theory of concepts, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Charles Lovering , Ellie Pavlick

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are highly effective on a variety of graph-related tasks; however, they lack interpretability and transparency. Current explainability approaches are typically local and treat GNNs as black-boxes. They do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Han Xuanyuan , Pietro Barbiero , Dobrik Georgiev , Lucie Charlotte Magister , Pietro Lió

In this introductory article we present the basics of an approach to implementing computational interpreting of natural language aiming to model the meanings of words and phrases. Unlike other approaches, we attempt to define the meanings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Michael Kapustin , Pavlo Kapustin

The cognitive framework of conceptual spaces bridges the gap between symbolic and subsymbolic AI by proposing an intermediate conceptual layer where knowledge is represented geometrically. There are two main approaches for obtaining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Lucas Bechberger , Elektra Kypridemou

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

The widespread use of deep neural networks has achieved substantial success in many tasks. However, there still exists a huge gap between the operating mechanism of deep learning models and human-understandable decision making, so that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xiaowei Zhou , Jie Yin , Ivor Tsang , Chen Wang