arXiv:2505. 03201v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Integrated Gradients (IG) is a widely used attribution method in explainable AI, particularly in computer vision applications where reliable feature attribution is essential.
arXiv:2608. 12299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Class activation mapping (CAM) is one of the most widely used visual explanation families in explainable artificial intelligence.
arXiv:2606. 07180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing demand for transparency in automated decision-making has propelled eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) to the forefront of machine learning research.
HiLRP introduces a unified attribution framework for Vision Transformers (ViTs) that addresses the challenges posed by diverse architectural designs. By decomposing ViT operations into four basic types—linear maps, bilinear mixing, normalization/gating, and reindexing—HiLRP applies conservation‑satisfying relevance rules, enabling reliable explanations across a wide range of backbones. The method outperforms 14 existing attribution techniques on 10 architectures, maintaining conservation and improving localization accuracy (0.97 Pointing) compared to competitors.
arXiv:2607. 22544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual counterfactual explanations aim to answer "what minimal change to this image would flip the model's prediction?
arXiv:2411. 05698v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown remarkable performance in image classification.
The paper introduces Relative Patch Response Learning (PRL) to detect AI‑generated images by comparing patch responses across two mixed views of aligned real‑generated image pairs. PRL uses a relative response objective, a reference coherence objective, and an area ranking objective to address contextual shifts caused by self‑attention, providing precise supervision for patch‑level detection. Experiments show PRL outperforms prior methods by 4.3% and 5.9% in average balanced accuracy on standard and in‑the‑wild benchmarks.
Hide and Seek (HnS) is a concept‑level attribution method that interprets black‑box vision models without needing model weights or labeled concept datasets. It retrieves concept‑aligned images via a vision‑language model, localizes and masks the concept region, and measures attribution by observing changes in the model’s output. HnS was validated on CelebA and COCO‑Stuff, showing stronger agreement with ground‑truth attributions than existing methods, and was applied to tasks like image captioning and satellite image segmentation where other concept attribution methods fail.
arXiv:2609.23561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying efficient neural networks is essential in resource-constrained environments, yet compact models often sacrifice interpretability - a critical...
arXiv:2602. 07008v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable models should not only predict correctly, but also justify decisions with acceptable evidence.
The paper introduces eXplaining to Learn (eX2L), an interpretable framework that regularizes a classifier by penalizing similarity between Grad‑CAM maps of the main label classifier and a confounder classifier. This approach decorrelates confounding features from latent representations during training. On the Spawrious Many‑to‑Many Hard Challenge benchmark, eX2L outperforms the current state‑of‑the‑art by 5.49% in average accuracy and 10.90% in worst‑group accuracy, while also demonstrating functional domain invariance through explicit label‑nuisance decoupling.
The paper introduces Perception and Reasoning Attribution (PARA), a method that quantifies how much of a vision‑language model’s errors can be fixed by better perception versus stronger reasoning. PARA reveals that reinforcement learning (RL) benefits more from improving reasoning than perception, and motivates a new group‑relative attention distillation objective called GRAD. GRAD directly guides weaker rollouts toward the visual attention patterns of the best rollouts, consistently boosting performance across multiple model scales and benchmarks.