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20172025
most citedTowards Reverse-Engineering Black-Box Neural Networks

41 citations · 88 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CV2025

DASH: Detection and Assessment of Systematic Hallucinations of VLMs

Maximilian Augustin, Yannic Neuhaus, Matthias Hein

Vision-language models (VLMs) are prone to object hallucinations, where they erroneously indicate the presenceof certain objects in an image. Existing benchmarks quantify hallucina…

cs.CV2023

DiG-IN: Diffusion Guidance for Investigating Networks -- Uncovering Classifier Differences Neuron Visualisations and Visual Counterfactual Explanations

Maximilian Augustin, Yannic Neuhaus, Matthias Hein

While deep learning has led to huge progress in complex image classification tasks like ImageNet, unexpected failure modes, e.g. via spurious features, call into question how relia…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Spurious Features Everywhere -- Large-Scale Detection of Harmful Spurious Features in ImageNet

Yannic Neuhaus, Maximilian Augustin, Valentyn Boreiko +1

Benchmark performance of deep learning classifiers alone is not a reliable predictor for the performance of a deployed model. In particular, if the image classifier has picked up s…

cs.CV2022★ 15 cited

Diffusion Visual Counterfactual Explanations

Maximilian Augustin, Valentyn Boreiko, Francesco Croce +1

Visual Counterfactual Explanations (VCEs) are an important tool to understand the decisions of an image classifier. They are 'small' but 'realistic' semantic changes of the image c…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

Breaking Down Out-of-Distribution Detection: Many Methods Based on OOD Training Data Estimate a Combination of the Same Core Quantities

Julian Bitterwolf, Alexander Meinke, Maximilian Augustin +1

It is an important problem in trustworthy machine learning to recognize out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs which are inputs unrelated to the in-distribution task. Many out-of-distrib…

cs.CV2022★ 24 cited

Sparse Visual Counterfactual Explanations in Image Space

Valentyn Boreiko, Maximilian Augustin, Francesco Croce +2

Visual counterfactual explanations (VCEs) in image space are an important tool to understand decisions of image classifiers as they show under which changes of the image the decisi…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Out-distribution aware Self-training in an Open World Setting

Maximilian Augustin, Matthias Hein

Deep Learning heavily depends on large labeled datasets which limits further improvements. While unlabeled data is available in large amounts, in particular in image recognition, i…

cs.LG2020

Adversarial Robustness on In- and Out-Distribution Improves Explainability

Maximilian Augustin, Alexander Meinke, Matthias Hein

Neural networks have led to major improvements in image classification but suffer from being non-robust to adversarial changes, unreliable uncertainty estimates on out-distribution…

cs.CR2018

MLCapsule: Guarded Offline Deployment of Machine Learning as a Service

Lucjan Hanzlik, Yang Zhang, Kathrin Grosse +4

With the widespread use of machine learning (ML) techniques, ML as a service has become increasingly popular. In this setting, an ML model resides on a server and users can query i…

stat.ML2017★ 41 cited

Towards Reverse-Engineering Black-Box Neural Networks

Seong Joon Oh, Max Augustin, Bernt Schiele +1

Many deployed learned models are black boxes: given input, returns output. Internal information about the model, such as the architecture, optimisation procedure, or training data,…