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20192026
most citedLabel-Free Concept Bottleneck Models

18 citations · 49 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.LG2026

Data-Efficient Adaptation of LLMs via Attention Head Reweighting

Tuomas Oikarinen, Zixiao Chen, Charlotte Siska +3

Learning effectively from limited data is critical in domains like security where labeled examples are scarce. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated some capabilities for…

cs.CV2026

Multimodal Concept Bottleneck Models

Tongqing Shi, Ge Yan, Tuomas Oikarinen +1

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enhance the interpretability of deep learning networks by aligning the features extracted from images with natural concepts. However, existing CBMs…

cs.LG2026

CI-CBM: Class-Incremental Concept Bottleneck Model for Interpretable Continual Learning

Amirhosein Javadi, Tuomas Oikarinen, Tara Javidi +1

Catastrophic forgetting remains a fundamental challenge in continual learning, in which models often forget previous knowledge when fine-tuned on a new task. This issue is especial…

cs.AI2025

Faithful and Stable Neuron Explanations for Trustworthy Mechanistic Interpretability

Ge Yan, Tuomas Oikarinen, Tsui-Wei +1

Neuron identification is a popular tool in mechanistic interpretability, aiming to uncover the human-interpretable concepts represented by individual neurons in deep networks. Whil…

cs.LG2025

Evaluating Neuron Explanations: A Unified Framework with Sanity Checks

Tuomas Oikarinen, Ge Yan, Tsui-Wei Weng

Understanding the function of individual units in a neural network is an important building block for mechanistic interpretability. This is often done by generating a simple text e…

cs.CV2025

Beyond Top Activations: Efficient and Reliable Crowdsourced Evaluation of Automated Interpretability

Tuomas Oikarinen, Ge Yan, Akshay Kulkarni +1

Interpreting individual neurons or directions in activation space is an important topic in mechanistic interpretability. Numerous automated interpretability methods have been propo…

cs.CV2025

Interpretable Generative Models through Post-hoc Concept Bottlenecks

Akshay Kulkarni, Ge Yan, Chung-En Sun +2

Concept bottleneck models (CBM) aim to produce inherently interpretable models that rely on human-understandable concepts for their predictions. However, existing approaches to des…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Concept Bottleneck Language Models For protein design

Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, Tuomas Oikarinen, Amy Wang +8

We introduce Concept Bottleneck Protein Language Models (CB-pLM), a generative masked language model with a layer where each neuron corresponds to an interpretable concept. Our arc…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Concept Bottleneck Large Language Models

Chung-En Sun, Tuomas Oikarinen, Berk Ustun +1

We introduce Concept Bottleneck Large Language Models (CB-LLMs), a novel framework for building inherently interpretable Large Language Models (LLMs). In contrast to traditional bl…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Crafting Large Language Models for Enhanced Interpretability

Chung-En Sun, Tuomas Oikarinen, Tsui-Wei Weng

We introduce the Concept Bottleneck Large Language Model (CB-LLM), a pioneering approach to creating inherently interpretable Large Language Models (LLMs). Unlike traditional black…

cs.LG2024

Linear Explanations for Individual Neurons

Tuomas Oikarinen, Tsui-Wei Weng

In recent years many methods have been developed to understand the internal workings of neural networks, often by describing the function of individual neurons in the model. Howeve…

cs.CV2024

Interpreting Neurons in Deep Vision Networks with Language Models

Nicholas Bai, Rahul A. Iyer, Tuomas Oikarinen +2

In this paper, we propose Describe-and-Dissect (DnD), a novel method to describe the roles of hidden neurons in vision networks. DnD utilizes recent advancements in multimodal deep…

cs.LG2023

Corrupting Neuron Explanations of Deep Visual Features

Divyansh Srivastava, Tuomas Oikarinen, Tsui-Wei Weng

The inability of DNNs to explain their black-box behavior has led to a recent surge of explainability methods. However, there are growing concerns that these explainability methods…

cs.CL2023

The Importance of Prompt Tuning for Automated Neuron Explanations

Justin Lee, Tuomas Oikarinen, Arjun Chatha +3

Recent advances have greatly increased the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but our understanding of the models and their safety has not progressed as fast. In this pa…

cs.LG2023

Concept-Monitor: Understanding DNN training through individual neurons

Mohammad Ali Khan, Tuomas Oikarinen, Tsui-Wei Weng

In this work, we propose a general framework called Concept-Monitor to help demystify the black-box DNN training processes automatically using a novel unified embedding space and c…

cs.LG2023★ 18 cited

Label-Free Concept Bottleneck Models

Tuomas Oikarinen, Subhro Das, Lam M. Nguyen +1

Concept bottleneck models (CBM) are a popular way of creating more interpretable neural networks by having hidden layer neurons correspond to human-understandable concepts. However…

cs.CV2022★ 9 cited

CLIP-Dissect: Automatic Description of Neuron Representations in Deep Vision Networks

Tuomas Oikarinen, Tsui-Wei Weng

In this paper, we propose CLIP-Dissect, a new technique to automatically describe the function of individual hidden neurons inside vision networks. CLIP-Dissect leverages recent ad…

cs.LG2020

GraphMDN: Leveraging graph structure and deep learning to solve inverse problems

Tuomas P. Oikarinen, Daniel C. Hannah, Sohrob Kazerounian

The recent introduction of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and their growing popularity in the past few years has enabled the application of deep learning algorithms to non-Euclidean,…

cs.LG2020★ 15 cited

Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning through Adversarial Loss

Tuomas Oikarinen, Wang Zhang, Alexandre Megretski +2

Recent studies have shown that deep reinforcement learning agents are vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations on the agent's inputs, which raises concerns about deploying suc…

eess.IV2019

Landslide Geohazard Assessment With Convolutional Neural Networks Using Sentinel-2 Imagery Data

Silvia L. Ullo, Maximillian S. Langenkamp, Tuomas P. Oikarinen +4

In this paper, the authors aim to combine the latest state of the art models in image recognition with the best publicly available satellite images to create a system for landslide…