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20172024
most citedConcept Whitening for Interpretable Image Recognition

283 citations · 490 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

physics.app-ph2024★ 1 cited

Phononic materials with effectively scale-separated hierarchical features using interpretable machine learning

Mary V. Bastawrous, Zhi Chen, Alexander C. Ogren +3

Manipulating the dispersive characteristics of vibrational waves is beneficial for many applications, e.g., high-precision instruments. architected hierarchical phononic materials…

cs.LG2024

Sparse and Faithful Explanations Without Sparse Models

Yiyang Sun, Zhi Chen, Vittorio Orlandi +2

Even if a model is not globally sparse, it is possible for decisions made from that model to be accurately and faithfully described by a small number of features. For instance, an…

cs.CL2023

CLEVA: Chinese Language Models EVAluation Platform

Yanyang Li, Jianqiao Zhao, Duo Zheng +8

With the continuous emergence of Chinese Large Language Models (LLMs), how to evaluate a model's capabilities has become an increasingly significant issue. The absence of a compreh…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Provable Multi-instance Deep AUC Maximization with Stochastic Pooling

Dixian Zhu, Bokun Wang, Zhi Chen +4

This paper considers a novel application of deep AUC maximization (DAM) for multi-instance learning (MIL), in which a single class label is assigned to a bag of instances (e.g., mu…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Missing Values and Imputation in Healthcare Data: Can Interpretable Machine Learning Help?

Zhi Chen, Sarah Tan, Urszula Chajewska +2

Missing values are a fundamental problem in data science. Many datasets have missing values that must be properly handled because the way missing values are treated can have large…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Exploring and Interacting with the Set of Good Sparse Generalized Additive Models

Chudi Zhong, Zhi Chen, Jiachang Liu +2

In real applications, interaction between machine learning models and domain experts is critical; however, the classical machine learning paradigm that usually produces only a sing…

cs.LG2022★ 21 cited

Exploring the Whole Rashomon Set of Sparse Decision Trees

Rui Xin, Chudi Zhong, Zhi Chen +3

In any given machine learning problem, there may be many models that could explain the data almost equally well. However, most learning algorithms return only one of these models,…

cs.HC2022★ 24 cited

TimberTrek: Exploring and Curating Sparse Decision Trees with Interactive Visualization

Zijie J. Wang, Chudi Zhong, Rui Xin +5

Given thousands of equally accurate machine learning (ML) models, how can users choose among them? A recent ML technique enables domain experts and data scientists to generate a co…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

SegDiscover: Visual Concept Discovery via Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation

Haiyang Huang, Zhi Chen, Cynthia Rudin

Visual concept discovery has long been deemed important to improve interpretability of neural networks, because a bank of semantically meaningful concepts would provide us with a s…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

How to See Hidden Patterns in Metamaterials with Interpretable Machine Learning

Zhi Chen, Alexander Ogren, Chiara Daraio +2

Machine learning models can assist with metamaterials design by approximating computationally expensive simulators or solving inverse design problems. However, past work has usuall…

cs.LG2021★ 23 cited

Interpretable Machine Learning: Fundamental Principles and 10 Grand Challenges

Cynthia Rudin, Chaofan Chen, Zhi Chen +3

Interpretability in machine learning (ML) is crucial for high stakes decisions and troubleshooting. In this work, we provide fundamental principles for interpretable ML, and dispel…

cs.LG2020★ 283 cited

Concept Whitening for Interpretable Image Recognition

Zhi Chen, Yijie Bei, Cynthia Rudin

What does a neural network encode about a concept as we traverse through the layers? Interpretability in machine learning is undoubtedly important, but the calculations of neural n…

stat.ML2017★ 124 cited

Adversarial Feature Matching for Text Generation

Yizhe Zhang, Zhe Gan, Kai Fan +4

The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has achieved great success in generating realistic (real-valued) synthetic data. However, convergence issues and difficulties dealing with…