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most citedConcept Embedding Models: Beyond the Accuracy-Explainability Trade-Off

36 citations · 82 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.LG2026

Towards Identifying the Dataset Biases Causing Phantom Transfer

Jonas Jürß, Pietro Liò

Recent work has shown that a teacher model can transfer a bias to a student through a dataset from which every explicit reference to that bias has been filtered out, and that none…

cs.CV2025

Multimodal Attention-Aware Fusion for Diagnosing Distal Myopathy: Evaluating Model Interpretability and Clinician Trust

Mohsen Abbaspour Onari, Lucie Charlotte Magister, Yaoxin Wu +10

Distal myopathy represents a genetically heterogeneous group of skeletal muscle disorders with broad clinical manifestations, posing diagnostic challenges in radiology. To address…

physics.med-ph2023★ 1 cited

Digital Histopathology with Graph Neural Networks: Concepts and Explanations for Clinicians

Alessandro Farace di Villaforesta, Lucie Charlotte Magister, Pietro Barbiero +1

To address the challenge of the ``black-box" nature of deep learning in medical settings, we combine GCExplainer - an automated concept discovery solution - along with Logic Explai…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Everybody Needs a Little HELP: Explaining Graphs via Hierarchical Concepts

Jonas Jürß, Lucie Charlotte Magister, Pietro Barbiero +2

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have led to major breakthroughs in a variety of domains such as drug discovery, social network analysis, and travel time estimation. However, they lack…

cs.LG2023

From Charts to Atlas: Merging Latent Spaces into One

Donato Crisostomi, Irene Cannistraci, Luca Moschella +4

Models trained on semantically related datasets and tasks exhibit comparable inter-sample relations within their latent spaces. We investigate in this study the aggregation of such…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Interpretable Graph Networks Formulate Universal Algebra Conjectures

Francesco Giannini, Stefano Fioravanti, Oguzhan Keskin +4

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) recently empowered researchers to investigate hard mathematical problems which eluded traditional approaches for decades. Yet, the use of A…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

SHARCS: Shared Concept Space for Explainable Multimodal Learning

Gabriele Dominici, Pietro Barbiero, Lucie Charlotte Magister +2

Multimodal learning is an essential paradigm for addressing complex real-world problems, where individual data modalities are typically insufficient to accurately solve a given mod…

cs.AI2023

Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning

Pietro Barbiero, Gabriele Ciravegna, Francesco Giannini +7

Deep learning methods are highly accurate, yet their opaque decision process prevents them from earning full human trust. Concept-based models aim to address this issue by learning…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Deep Multiple Instance Learning with Distance-Aware Self-Attention

Georg Wölflein, Lucie Charlotte Magister, Pietro Liò +2

Traditional supervised learning tasks require a label for every instance in the training set, but in many real-world applications, labels are only available for collections (bags)…

cs.AI2023★ 1 cited

Categorical Foundations of Explainable AI: A Unifying Theory

Pietro Barbiero, Stefano Fioravanti, Francesco Giannini +3

Explainable AI (XAI) aims to address the human need for safe and reliable AI systems. However, numerous surveys emphasize the absence of a sound mathematical formalization of key X…

cs.CL2022★ 8 cited

Extending Logic Explained Networks to Text Classification

Rishabh Jain, Gabriele Ciravegna, Pietro Barbiero +3

Recently, Logic Explained Networks (LENs) have been proposed as explainable-by-design neural models providing logic explanations for their predictions. However, these models have o…

cs.LG2022★ 11 cited

Global Explainability of GNNs via Logic Combination of Learned Concepts

Steve Azzolin, Antonio Longa, Pietro Barbiero +2

While instance-level explanation of GNN is a well-studied problem with plenty of approaches being developed, providing a global explanation for the behaviour of a GNN is much less…

cs.LG2022★ 36 cited

Concept Embedding Models: Beyond the Accuracy-Explainability Trade-Off

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Pietro Barbiero, Gabriele Ciravegna +9

Deploying AI-powered systems requires trustworthy models supporting effective human interactions, going beyond raw prediction accuracy. Concept bottleneck models promote trustworth…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

Encoding Concepts in Graph Neural Networks

Lucie Charlotte Magister, Pietro Barbiero, Dmitry Kazhdan +5

The opaque reasoning of Graph Neural Networks induces a lack of human trust. Existing graph network explainers attempt to address this issue by providing post-hoc explanations, how…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Global Concept-Based Interpretability for Graph Neural Networks via Neuron Analysis

Han Xuanyuan, Pietro Barbiero, Dobrik Georgiev +2

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are highly effective on a variety of graph-related tasks; however, they lack interpretability and transparency. Current explainability approaches are t…

cs.LG2021★ 14 cited

GCExplainer: Human-in-the-Loop Concept-based Explanations for Graph Neural Networks

Lucie Charlotte Magister, Dmitry Kazhdan, Vikash Singh +1

While graph neural networks (GNNs) have been shown to perform well on graph-based data from a variety of fields, they suffer from a lack of transparency and accountability, which h…

cs.LG2021

Algorithmic Concept-based Explainable Reasoning

Dobrik Georgiev, Pietro Barbiero, Dmitry Kazhdan +2

Recent research on graph neural network (GNN) models successfully applied GNNs to classical graph algorithms and combinatorial optimisation problems. This has numerous benefits, su…