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most citedExplainable concept mappings of MRI: Revealing the mechanisms underlying deep learning-based brain disease classification

4 citations · 14 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.AI2026

Safety Signals to Verify NetOps Agents with Action-Level Granularity

Tobias Labarta, Frederik Pahde, Novak Boškov +6

Agentic Network Operations (NetOps) are an emerging paradigm promising to enable workload-aware, self-adjustable, and reliable autonomous networks. While agents have proven their v…

cs.LG2026

ICON decomposition: Multivariate concept auditing reveals shortcuts that neural networks rely on

Roshan Prakash Rane, Marco Simnacher, Manuel Pfeuffer +7

Deep neural networks often exploit spurious associations, a failure known as shortcut learning. Before deployment, models should therefore be audited for reliance on concepts such…

cs.CV2025

Post-Hoc Concept Disentanglement: From Correlated to Isolated Concept Representations

Eren Erogullari, Sebastian Lapuschkin, Wojciech Samek +1

Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) are widely used to model human-understandable concepts as directions within the latent space of neural networks. They are trained by identifying d…

cs.AI2025★ 4 cited

Ensuring Medical AI Safety: Interpretability-Driven Detection and Mitigation of Spurious Model Behavior and Associated Data

Frederik Pahde, Thomas Wiegand, Sebastian Lapuschkin +1

Deep neural networks are increasingly employed in high-stakes medical applications, despite their tendency for shortcut learning in the presence of spurious correlations, which can…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Synthetic Generation of Dermatoscopic Images with GAN and Closed-Form Factorization

Rohan Reddy Mekala, Frederik Pahde, Simon Baur +11

In the realm of dermatological diagnoses, where the analysis of dermatoscopic and microscopic skin lesion images is pivotal for the accurate and early detection of various medical…

cs.CV2024★ 4 cited

Explainable concept mappings of MRI: Revealing the mechanisms underlying deep learning-based brain disease classification

Christian Tinauer, Anna Damulina, Maximilian Sackl +9

Motivation. While recent studies show high accuracy in the classification of Alzheimer's disease using deep neural networks, the underlying learned concepts have not been investiga…

cs.LG2024

Reactive Model Correction: Mitigating Harm to Task-Relevant Features via Conditional Bias Suppression

Dilyara Bareeva, Maximilian Dreyer, Frederik Pahde +2

Deep Neural Networks are prone to learning and relying on spurious correlations in the training data, which, for high-risk applications, can have fatal consequences. Various approa…

cs.LG2023

From Hope to Safety: Unlearning Biases of Deep Models via Gradient Penalization in Latent Space

Maximilian Dreyer, Frederik Pahde, Christopher J. Anders +2

Deep Neural Networks are prone to learning spurious correlations embedded in the training data, leading to potentially biased predictions. This poses risks when deploying these mod…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Reveal to Revise: An Explainable AI Life Cycle for Iterative Bias Correction of Deep Models

Frederik Pahde, Maximilian Dreyer, Wojciech Samek +1

State-of-the-art machine learning models often learn spurious correlations embedded in the training data. This poses risks when deploying these models for high-stake decision-makin…

cs.CV2022

Optimizing Explanations by Network Canonization and Hyperparameter Search

Frederik Pahde, Galip Ümit Yolcu, Alexander Binder +2

Explainable AI (XAI) is slowly becoming a key component for many AI applications. Rule-based and modified backpropagation XAI approaches however often face challenges when being ap…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Navigating Neural Space: Revisiting Concept Activation Vectors to Overcome Directional Divergence

Frederik Pahde, Maximilian Dreyer, Leander Weber +5

With a growing interest in understanding neural network prediction strategies, Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) have emerged as a popular tool for modeling human-understandable co…