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7 papers

cs.AI2026

CaVe-VLM-CoT: An Interpretable Vision-Language Model Framework

Sneha Rao, Shaina Raza, Dhanesh Ramachandram

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) remain prone to hallucinations, producing fluent but visually unfaithful outputs. Existing chain-of-thought and retrieval-augmented methods only parti…

cs.CV2026

Spatially Grounded Concept Bottleneck Models via Part-Factorized Attention

Dhanesh Ramachandram

Concept bottleneck models (CBMs) predict a layer of human-named attributes before predicting a class, which makes their decisions auditable. On fine-grained recognition tasks, thou…

cs.AI2026

From Features to Actions: Explainability in Traditional and Agentic AI Systems

Sindhuja Chaduvula, Jessee Ho, Kina Kim +6

Over the last decade, Explainable AI has primarily focused on interpreting individual model predictions, producing post-hoc explanations that relate inputs to outputs under a fixed…

cs.LG2025

Interpretable Fine-Gray Deep Survival Model for Competing Risks: Predicting Post-Discharge Foot Complications for Diabetic Patients in Ontario

Dhanesh Ramachandram, Anne Loefler, Surain Roberts +5

Model interpretability is crucial for establishing AI safety and clinician trust in medical applications for example, in survival modelling with competing risks. Recent deep learni…

cs.LG2025

CRISP-NAM: Competing Risks Interpretable Survival Prediction with Neural Additive Models

Dhanesh Ramachandram, Ananya Raval

Competing risks are crucial considerations in survival modelling, particularly in healthcare domains where patients may experience multiple distinct event types. We propose CRISP-N…

cs.LG2025

Transparent AI: The Case for Interpretability and Explainability

Dhanesh Ramachandram, Himanshu Joshi, Judy Zhu +3

As artificial intelligence systems increasingly inform high-stakes decisions across sectors, transparency has become foundational to responsible and trustworthy AI implementation.…