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most citedQuantus: An Explainable AI Toolkit for Responsible Evaluation of Neural Network Explanations and Beyond

118 citations · 219 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.LG2026

Batch-Invariant Spectral Intelligence for Robust and Explainable Insect Authentication

Majharulislam Babor, Giacomo Rossi, Annalisa Altavilla +2

Edible insects offer an efficient source of alternative protein, requiring less land, water and emitting less greenhouse gas than conventional livestock. However, their successful…

cs.CV2025

LeafTrackNet: A Deep Learning Framework for Robust Leaf Tracking in Top-Down Plant Phenotyping

Shanghua Liu, Majharulislam Babor, Christoph Verduyn +4

High-resolution phenotyping at the level of individual leaves offers fine-grained insights into plant development and stress responses. However, the full potential of accurate leaf…

cs.LG2025

Capturing Polysemanticity with PRISM: A Multi-Concept Feature Description Framework

Laura Kopf, Nils Feldhus, Kirill Bykov +4

Automated interpretability research aims to identify concepts encoded in neural network features to enhance human understanding of model behavior. Within the context of large langu…

cs.CV2024

Model Guidance via Explanations Turns Image Classifiers into Segmentation Models

Xiaoyan Yu, Jannik Franzen, Wojciech Samek +2

Heatmaps generated on inputs of image classification networks via explainable AI methods like Grad-CAM and LRP have been observed to resemble segmentations of input images in many…

cs.LG2024

CoSy: Evaluating Textual Explanations of Neurons

Laura Kopf, Philine Lou Bommer, Anna Hedström +3

A crucial aspect of understanding the complex nature of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is the ability to explain learned concepts within their latent representations. While methods ex…

cs.AI2024★ 5 cited

Sanity Checks Revisited: An Exploration to Repair the Model Parameter Randomisation Test

Anna Hedström, Leander Weber, Sebastian Lapuschkin +1

The Model Parameter Randomisation Test (MPRT) is widely acknowledged in the eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) community for its well-motivated evaluative principle: that th…

cs.LG2024

Manipulating Feature Visualizations with Gradient Slingshots

Dilyara Bareeva, Marina M. -C. Höhne, Alexander Warnecke +5

Feature Visualization (FV) is a widely used technique for interpreting concepts learned by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), which synthesizes input patterns that maximally activate a g…

cs.LG2023

Explainable AI in Grassland Monitoring: Enhancing Model Performance and Domain Adaptability

Shanghua Liu, Anna Hedström, Deepak Hanike Basavegowda +2

Grasslands are known for their high biodiversity and ability to provide multiple ecosystem services. Challenges in automating the identification of indicator plants are key obstacl…

cs.LG2023

Prototypical Self-Explainable Models Without Re-training

Srishti Gautam, Ahcene Boubekki, Marina M. C. Höhne +1

Explainable AI (XAI) has unfolded in two distinct research directions with, on the one hand, post-hoc methods that explain the predictions of a pre-trained black-box model and, on…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Labeling Neural Representations with Inverse Recognition

Kirill Bykov, Laura Kopf, Shinichi Nakajima +2

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in learning complex hierarchical data representations, but the nature of these representations remains largely unkno…

cs.RO2023

Kidnapping Deep Learning-based Multirotors using Optimized Flying Adversarial Patches

Pia Hanfeld, Khaled Wahba, Marina M. -C. Höhne +2

Autonomous flying robots, such as multirotors, often rely on deep learning models that make predictions based on a camera image, e.g. for pose estimation. These models can predict…

cs.RO2023

Flying Adversarial Patches: Manipulating the Behavior of Deep Learning-based Autonomous Multirotors

Pia Hanfeld, Marina M. -C. Höhne, Michael Bussmann +1

Autonomous flying robots, e.g. multirotors, often rely on a neural network that makes predictions based on a camera image. These deep learning (DL) models can compute surprising re…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Mark My Words: Dangers of Watermarked Images in ImageNet

Kirill Bykov, Klaus-Robert Müller, Marina M. -C. Höhne

The utilization of pre-trained networks, especially those trained on ImageNet, has become a common practice in Computer Vision. However, prior research has indicated that a signifi…

cs.LG2023★ 23 cited

Finding the right XAI method -- A Guide for the Evaluation and Ranking of Explainable AI Methods in Climate Science

Philine Bommer, Marlene Kretschmer, Anna Hedström +2

Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods shed light on the predictions of machine learning algorithms. Several different approaches exist and have already been applied in…

cs.LG2023★ 9 cited

The Meta-Evaluation Problem in Explainable AI: Identifying Reliable Estimators with MetaQuantus

Anna Hedström, Philine Bommer, Kristoffer K. Wickstrøm +3

One of the unsolved challenges in the field of Explainable AI (XAI) is determining how to most reliably estimate the quality of an explanation method in the absence of ground truth…

cs.LG2022★ 11 cited

ProtoVAE: A Trustworthy Self-Explainable Prototypical Variational Model

Srishti Gautam, Ahcene Boubekki, Stine Hansen +4

The need for interpretable models has fostered the development of self-explainable classifiers. Prior approaches are either based on multi-stage optimization schemes, impacting the…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

DORA: Exploring Outlier Representations in Deep Neural Networks

Kirill Bykov, Mayukh Deb, Dennis Grinwald +2

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) excel at learning complex abstractions within their internal representations. However, the concepts they learn remain opaque, a problem that becomes par…

cs.LG2022★ 118 cited

Quantus: An Explainable AI Toolkit for Responsible Evaluation of Neural Network Explanations and Beyond

Anna Hedström, Leander Weber, Dilyara Bareeva +5

The evaluation of explanation methods is a research topic that has not yet been explored deeply, however, since explainability is supposed to strengthen trust in artificial intelli…

eess.IV2022★ 1 cited

Demonstrating The Risk of Imbalanced Datasets in Chest X-ray Image-based Diagnostics by Prototypical Relevance Propagation

Srishti Gautam, Marina M. -C. Höhne, Stine Hansen +2

The recent trend of integrating multi-source Chest X-Ray datasets to improve automated diagnostics raises concerns that models learn to exploit source-specific correlations to impr…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Visualizing the Diversity of Representations Learned by Bayesian Neural Networks

Dennis Grinwald, Kirill Bykov, Shinichi Nakajima +1

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) aims to make learning machines less opaque, and offers researchers and practitioners various tools to reveal the decision-making strategie…

cs.LG2021★ 8 cited

Self-Supervised Learning for 3D Medical Image Analysis using 3D SimCLR and Monte Carlo Dropout

Yamen Ali, Aiham Taleb, Marina M. -C. Höhne +1

Self-supervised learning methods can be used to learn meaningful representations from unlabeled data that can be transferred to supervised downstream tasks to reduce the need for l…

cs.LG2021★ 15 cited

Explaining Bayesian Neural Networks

Kirill Bykov, Marina M. -C. Höhne, Adelaida Creosteanu +4

To advance the transparency of learning machines such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), the field of Explainable AI (XAI) was established to provide interpretations of DNNs' predicti…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

NoiseGrad: Enhancing Explanations by Introducing Stochasticity to Model Weights

Kirill Bykov, Anna Hedström, Shinichi Nakajima +1

Many efforts have been made for revealing the decision-making process of black-box learning machines such as deep neural networks, resulting in useful local and global explanation…

cs.LG2020★ 18 cited

How Much Can I Trust You? -- Quantifying Uncertainties in Explaining Neural Networks

Kirill Bykov, Marina M. -C. Höhne, Klaus-Robert Müller +2

Explainable AI (XAI) aims to provide interpretations for predictions made by learning machines, such as deep neural networks, in order to make the machines more transparent for the…