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This paper integrates deep neural networks (DNNs) into structural economic models to increase flexibility and capture rich heterogeneity while preserving interpretability. Economic structure and machine learning are complements in empirical…

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Concept-based interpretability methods offer a lens into the internals of foundation models by decomposing their embeddings into high-level concepts. These concept representations are most useful when they are compositional, meaning that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Adam Stein , Aaditya Naik , Yinjun Wu , Mayur Naik , Eric Wong

Causal discovery from observational data is challenging, especially with large datasets and complex relationships. Traditional methods often struggle with scalability and capturing global structural information. To overcome these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Rezaur Rashid , Gabriel Terejanu

In this paper, we study a novel inference paradigm, termed as schema inference, that learns to deductively infer the explainable predictions by rebuilding the prior deep neural network (DNN) forwarding scheme, guided by the prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Haofei Zhang , Mengqi Xue , Xiaokang Liu , Kaixuan Chen , Jie Song , Mingli Song

Motivated by modern observational studies, we introduce a class of functional models that expands nested and crossed designs. These models account for the natural inheritance of correlation structure from sampling design in studies where…

Applications · Statistics 2013-04-26 Haochang Shou , Vadim Zipunnikov , Ciprian M. Crainiceanu , Sonja Greven

In this study, we address causal inference when only observational data and a valid causal ordering from the causal graph are available. We introduce a set of flow models that can recover component-wise, invertible transformation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Minh Khoa Le , Kien Do , Truyen Tran

Dynamic effective connectivity networks (dECNs) reveal the changing directed brain activity and the dynamic causal influences among brain regions, which facilitate the identification of individual differences and enhance the understanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Faming Xu , Yiding Wang , Chen Qiao , Gang Qu , Vince D. Calhoun , Julia M. Stephen , Tony W. Wilson , Yu-Ping Wang

Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many classification tasks. However, most of them cannot provide an interpretation for their classification results. Machine learning models that are interpretable are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Miles Q. Li , Benjamin C. M. Fung , Adel Abusitta

Conformal inference is a method that provides prediction sets for machine learning models, operating independently of the underlying distributional assumptions and relying solely on the exchangeability of training and test data. Despite its…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-01 Daniela Corbetta , Livio Finos , Ludwig Geistlinger , Davide Risso

We provide a new approach to training neural models to exhibit transparency in a well-defined, functional manner. Our approach naturally operates over structured data and tailors the predictor, functionally, towards a chosen family of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Guang-He Lee , Wengong Jin , David Alvarez-Melis , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Interpretability is crucial for ensuring RL systems align with human values. However, it remains challenging to achieve in complex decision making domains. Existing methods frequently attempt interpretability at the level of fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Anna Soligo , Pietro Ferraro , David Boyle

How can neural networks perform so well on compositional tasks even though they lack explicit compositional representations? We use a novel analysis technique called ROLE to show that recurrent neural networks perform well on such tasks by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Paul Soulos , Tom McCoy , Tal Linzen , Paul Smolensky

In recent years, Deep Reinforcement Learning has made impressive advances in solving several important benchmark problems for sequential decision making. Many control applications use a generic multilayer perceptron (MLP) for non-vision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Mario Srouji , Jian Zhang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Arguably the key reason for the success of deep neural networks is their ability to autonomously form non-linear combinations of the input features, which can be used in subsequent layers of the network. The analogon to this capability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Johannes Fürnkranz , Eyke Hüllermeier , Eneldo Loza Mencía , Michael Rapp

Collaborative reasoning for understanding image-question pairs is a very critical but underexplored topic in interpretable visual question answering systems. Although very recent studies have attempted to use explicit compositional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Qingxing Cao , Bailin Li , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

Graphs are essential for modeling complex relationships and capturing structured interactions in data. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are particularly effective when such relational structure is explicitly available, but many real-world…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Haozhe Chen , Soheila Farokhi , Kelvyn Bladen , Hamid Karimi , Kevin R. Moon

Prior-data fitted networks (PFNs) have recently been proposed as a promising way to train tabular foundation models. PFNs are transformers that are pre-trained on synthetic data generated from a prespecified prior distribution and that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yuchen Ma , Dennis Frauen , Emil Javurek , Stefan Feuerriegel

Deep-predictive-coding networks (DPCNs) are hierarchical, generative models. They rely on feed-forward and feed-back connections to modulate latent feature representations of stimuli in a dynamic and context-sensitive manner. A crucial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Isaac J. Sledge , Jose C. Principe

Learning high-quality node embeddings is a key building block for machine learning models that operate on graph data, such as social networks and recommender systems. However, existing graph embedding techniques are unable to cope with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Avishek Joey Bose , William L. Hamilton

While concept-based interpretability methods have traditionally focused on local explanations of neural network predictions, we propose a novel framework and interactive tool that extends these methods into the domain of mechanistic…

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