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.
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 ResLRP, an extension of Layer-wise Relevance Propagation that explicitly handles residual connections in Vision Transformers to prevent attribution explosion. It demonstrates that residual cancellation causes instability in ViT explanations, and that ResLRP improves faithfulness and localization across a wide range of ViT architectures, including Vision Language Models. The method also provides a diagnostic measure for predicting attribution degradation and successfully localizes Sparse Autoencoder features.
arXiv:2605.05556v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Artificial neural networks trained on visual tasks develop internal representations resembling those of the primate visual system, a discovery that...
arXiv:2606. 07593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The widespread use of image classification models in high-risk, real-world situations necessitates making these models robust to slight disturbances or perturbations, such as blurring or sharpening, in the input images.
Self-improvement for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is typically driven by reward-based methods that provide only coarse scalar feedback. Distillation offers a richer alternative through dense token-level supervision, but in the visual domain it usually depends on privileged context constructed using external annotations and tools, or stronger models.
Vision Transformers underperform convolutional networks when training data is scarce, and distilling convolutional inductive biases from a CNN teacher is an effective remedy that leaves the deployed model unchanged. General-purpose feature distillation, however, transfers little in this setting.