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Hybrid quantum-classical machine learning offers a promising direction for advancing automated quality control in industrial settings. In this study, we investigate two hybrid quantum-classical approaches for classifying defects in…

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Quantum machine learning (QML) shows promise for analyzing quantum data. A notable example is the use of quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs), implemented as specific types of quantum circuits, to recognize phases of matter. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Chukwudubem Umeano , Annie E. Paine , Vincent E. Elfving , Oleksandr Kyriienko

Interpretability of deep neural networks (DNNs) is essential since it enables users to understand the overall strengths and weaknesses of the models, conveys an understanding of how the models will behave in the future, and how to diagnose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Interpreting the decision-making process of deep convolutional neural networks remains a central challenge in achieving trustworthy and transparent artificial intelligence. Explainable AI (XAI) techniques, particularly Class Activation Map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hajar Dekdegue , Moncef Garouani , Josiane Mothe , Jordan Bernigaud

One of the biggest challenges for deep learning algorithms in medical image analysis is the indiscriminate mixing of image properties, e.g. artifacts and anatomy. These entangled image properties lead to a semantically redundant feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Qingjie Meng , Nick Pawlowski , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

Quantum kernels hold great promise for offering computational advantages over classical learners, with the effectiveness of these kernels closely tied to the design of the quantum feature map. However, the challenge of designing effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Cong Lei , Yuxuan Du , Peng Mi , Jun Yu , Tongliang Liu

Explainability is a vital aspect of modern AI for real-world impact and usability. The main objective of this paper is to emphasise the need to understand the predictions of Computer Vision models, specifically Convolutional Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ravidu Suien Rammuni Silva , Jordan J. Bird

Quantum Computing and especially Quantum Machine Learning, in a short period of time, has gained a lot of interest through research groups around the world. This can be seen in the increasing number of proposed models for pattern…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-23 Héctor Iván García Hernández , Raymundo Torres Ruiz , Guo-Hua Sun

One of the main challenges for broad adoption of deep learning based models such as convolutional neural networks (CNN), is the lack of understanding of their decisions. In many applications, a simpler, less capable model that can be easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Devinder Kumar , Vlado Menkovski , Graham W. Taylor , Alexander Wong

In the last few years, quantum computing and machine learning fostered rapid developments in their respective areas of application, introducing new perspectives on how information processing systems can be realized and programmed. The…

With the growing demand for interpretable deep learning models, this paper introduces Integrative CAM, an advanced Class Activation Mapping (CAM) technique aimed at providing a holistic view of feature importance across Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Aniket K. Singh , Debasis Chaudhuri , Manish P. Singh , Samiran Chattopadhyay

The success of recent deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) depends on learning hidden representations that can summarize the important factors of variation behind the data. However, CNNs often criticized as being black boxes that lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Bolei Zhou , David Bau , Aude Oliva , Antonio Torralba

Traditionally, for most machine learning settings, gaining some degree of explainability that tries to give users more insights into how and why the network arrives at its predictions, restricts the underlying model and hinders performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Robin M. Schmidt

Explaining deep learning models is essential for clinical integration of medical image analysis systems. A good explanation highlights if a model depends on spurious features that undermines generalization and harms a subset of patients or,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Yoni Schirris , Eric Marcus , Jonas Teuwen , Hugo Horlings , Efstratios Gavves

Deep neural networks have demonstrated promising performance on image recognition tasks. However, they may heavily rely on confounding factors, using irrelevant artifacts or bias within the dataset as the cue to improve performance. When a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Siyuan Yan , Zhen Yu , Xuelin Zhang , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Shekhar S. Chandra , Monika Janda , Peter Soyer , Zongyuan Ge

This paper introduces a deep learning system based on a quantum neural network for the binary classification of points of a specific geometric pattern (Two-Moons Classification problem) on a plane. We believe that the use of hybrid deep…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Marco Simonetti , Damiano Perri , Osvaldo Gervasi

The reasonable definition of semantic interpretability presents the core challenge in explainable AI. This paper proposes a method to modify a traditional convolutional neural network (CNN) into an interpretable compositional CNN, in order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Wen Shen , Zhihua Wei , Shikun Huang , Binbin Zhang , Jiaqi Fan , Ping Zhao , Quanshi Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have exhibited great performance in discriminative feature learning for complex visual tasks. Besides discrimination power, interpretability is another important yet under-explored property for CNNs. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wengang Guo , Jiayi Yang , Huilin Yin , Qijun Chen , Wei Ye

Deep neural networks have shown striking progress and obtained state-of-the-art results in many AI research fields in the recent years. However, it is often unsatisfying to not know why they predict what they do. In this paper, we address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Yash Goyal , Akrit Mohapatra , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

A major prerequisite for the application of machine learning models in clinical decision making is trust and interpretability. Current explainability studies in the neuroimaging community have mostly focused on explaining individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Fabian Eitel , Anna Melkonyan , Kerstin Ritter