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Rising usage of deep neural networks to perform decision making in critical applications like medical diagnosis and financial analysis have raised concerns regarding their reliability and trustworthiness. As automated systems become more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Sanchit Sinha , Mengdi Huai , Jianhui Sun , Aidong Zhang

The increasing complexity of AI models, especially in deep learning, has raised concerns about transparency and accountability, particularly in high-stakes applications like medical diagnostics, where opaque models can undermine trust.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Songning Lai , Yu Huang , Jiayu Yang , Gaoxiang Huang , Wenshuo Chen , Yutao Yue

We propose a unified representation learning framework to address the Cross Model Compatibility (CMC) problem in the context of visual search applications. Cross compatibility between different embedding models enables the visual search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Chien-Yi Wang , Ya-Liang Chang , Shang-Ta Yang , Dong Chen , Shang-Hong Lai

We revisit language bottleneck models as an approach to ensuring the explainability of deep learning models for image classification. Because of inevitable information loss incurred in the step of converting images into language, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Honori Udo , Takafumi Koshinaka

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…

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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

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

Recent work on interpretability has focused on concept-based explanations, where deep learning models are explained in terms of high-level units of information, referred to as concepts. Concept learning models, however, have been shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga , Pietro Barbiero , Zohreh Shams , Dmitry Kazhdan , Umang Bhatt , Adrian Weller , Mateja Jamnik

While RFML is expected to be a key enabler of future wireless standards, a significant challenge to the widespread adoption of RFML techniques is the lack of explainability in deep learning models. This work investigates the use of CB…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-06 Lauren J. Wong , Sean McPherson

Deep learning-based medical image classification techniques are rapidly advancing in medical image analysis, making it crucial to develop accurate and trustworthy models that can be efficiently deployed across diverse clinical scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hangzhou He , Jiachen Tang , Lei Zhu , Kaiwen Li , Yanye Lu

Accurately assessing student knowledge is central to education. Cognitive Diagnosis (CD) models estimate student proficiency at a fixed point in time, while Knowledge Tracing (KT) methods model evolving knowledge states to predict future…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Antonin Berthon , Mihaela van der Schaar

In recent years, the black-box nature of deep learning models has limited their application in high-stakes domains such as medical diagnosis and finance, where interpretability is essential. To address this, we propose a novel approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yike Sun , Mingkun Xu , Mu You , Zhongzhi He , Henghua Shen , Zehan Tan , Derek F. Wong , Tao Fang

Concept-based learning enhances prediction accuracy and interpretability by leveraging high-level, human-understandable concepts. However, existing CBL frameworks do not address survival analysis tasks, which involve predicting event times…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Stanislav R. Kirpichenko , Lev V. Utkin , Andrei V. Konstantinov , Natalya M. Verbova

Concept-based Models are a class of inherently explainable networks that improve upon standard Deep Neural Networks by providing a rationale behind their predictions using human-understandable `concepts'. With these models being highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Sanchit Sinha , Aidong Zhang

A challenge in advancing Visual-Language Models (VLMs) is determining whether their failures on abstract reasoning tasks, such as Bongard problems, stem from flawed perception or faulty top-down reasoning. To disentangle these factors, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Enrico Vompa , Tanel Tammet , Mohit Vaishnav

Large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP have achieved remarkable success in zero-shot image recognition, yet their predictions remain largely opaque to human understanding. In contrast, Concept Bottleneck Models provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Onat Ozdemir , Anders Christensen , Stephan Alaniz , Zeynep Akata , Emre Akbas

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

Extreme ocean phenomena are challenging not only to predict but to diagnose, as accurate forecasts alone do not reveal the underlying physical drivers. While recent machine learning approaches achieve strong predictive skill, they remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Sanah Suri , Kieran Ringel , Maike Sonnewald

We introduce Concept Bottleneck Reward Models (CB-RM), a reward modeling framework that enables interpretable preference learning through selective concept annotation. Unlike standard RLHF methods that rely on opaque reward functions, CB-RM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Sonia Laguna , Katarzyna Kobalczyk , Julia E. Vogt , Mihaela Van der Schaar

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enhance the interpretability of end-to-end neural networks by introducing a layer of concepts and predicting the class label from the concept predictions. A key property of CBMs is that they support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Weixin Chen , Han Zhao