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20222026
most citedAttnLRP: Attention-Aware Layer-Wise Relevance Propagation for Transformers

9 citations · 17 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CL2026

Fast & Faithful Function Vectors

Minh An Pham, Anton Segeler, Thomas Wiegand +4

Function vectors (FVs) are task representations elicited during in-context learning that can be used to steer Large Language Models (LLMs). However, design choices in their formula…

cs.LG2025

LieSolver: PDE-Constrained Learning for IBVPs via Lie Symmetries

René P. Klausen, Ivan Timofeev, Jonas Naujoks +4

Initial-boundary value problems (IBVPs) provide the essential framework for modelling a wide range of phenomena in physics and engineering. We introduce a novel method for efficien…

cs.LG2025

Attribution-Guided Decoding

Piotr Komorowski, Elena Golimblevskaia, Reduan Achtibat +3

The capacity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to follow complex instructions and generate factually accurate text is critical for their real-world application. However, standard dec…

cs.LG2025

Leveraging Influence Functions for Resampling Data in Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Jonas R. Naujoks, Aleksander Krasowski, Moritz Weckbecker +5

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) offer a powerful approach to solving partial differential equations (PDEs), which are ubiquitous in the quantitative sciences. Applied to b…

cs.LG2025

Attribution-Guided Pruning for Insight and Control: Circuit Discovery and Targeted Correction in Small-scale LLMs

Sayed Mohammad Vakilzadeh Hatefi, Maximilian Dreyer, Reduan Achtibat +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely deployed in real-world applications, yet their internal mechanisms remain difficult to interpret and control, limiting our ability to diagno…

cs.LG2025

From What to How: Attributing CLIP's Latent Components Reveals Unexpected Semantic Reliance

Maximilian Dreyer, Lorenz Hufe, Jim Berend +3

Transformer-based CLIP models are widely used for text-image probing and feature extraction, making it relevant to understand the internal mechanisms behind their predictions. Whil…

cs.CL2025

The Atlas of In-Context Learning: How Attention Heads Shape In-Context Retrieval Augmentation

Patrick Kahardipraja, Reduan Achtibat, Thomas Wiegand +2

Large language models are able to exploit in-context learning to access external knowledge beyond their training data through retrieval-augmentation. While promising, its inner wor…

cs.LG2025

FADE: Why Bad Descriptions Happen to Good Features

Bruno Puri, Aakriti Jain, Elena Golimblevskaia +4

Recent advances in mechanistic interpretability have highlighted the potential of automating interpretability pipelines in analyzing the latent representations within LLMs. While t…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Mechanistic understanding and validation of large AI models with SemanticLens

Maximilian Dreyer, Jim Berend, Tobias Labarta +4

Unlike human-engineered systems such as aeroplanes, where each component's role and dependencies are well understood, the inner workings of AI models remain largely opaque, hinderi…

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…

quant-ph2024

Opportunities and limitations of explaining quantum machine learning

Elies Gil-Fuster, Jonas R. Naujoks, Grégoire Montavon +3

A common trait of many machine learning models is that it is often difficult to understand and explain what caused the model to produce the given output. While the explainability o…

cs.LG2024

Quanda: An Interpretability Toolkit for Training Data Attribution Evaluation and Beyond

Dilyara Bareeva, Galip Ümit Yolcu, Anna Hedström +4

In recent years, training data attribution (TDA) methods have emerged as a promising direction for the interpretability of neural networks. While research around TDA is thriving, l…

cs.LG2024

PINNfluence: Interpreting PINNs through Influence Functions

Aleksander Krasowski, Jonas R. Naujoks, Moritz Weckbecker +5

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful deep learning approach for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in the physical sciences, yet their beh…

cs.AI2024

Pruning By Explaining Revisited: Optimizing Attribution Methods to Prune CNNs and Transformers

Sayed Mohammad Vakilzadeh Hatefi, Maximilian Dreyer, Reduan Achtibat +3

To solve ever more complex problems, Deep Neural Networks are scaled to billions of parameters, leading to huge computational costs. An effective approach to reduce computational r…

cs.LG2024

Sparse, Efficient and Explainable Data Attribution with DualXDA

Galip Ümit Yolcu, Moritz Weckbecker, Thomas Wiegand +2

Data Attribution (DA) is an emerging approach in the field of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), aiming to identify influential training datapoints which determine model ou…

cs.CL2024★ 9 cited

AttnLRP: Attention-Aware Layer-Wise Relevance Propagation for Transformers

Reduan Achtibat, Sayed Mohammad Vakilzadeh Hatefi, Maximilian Dreyer +4

Large Language Models are prone to biased predictions and hallucinations, underlining the paramount importance of understanding their model-internal reasoning process. However, ach…

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…