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most citedThis Reads Like That: Deep Learning for Interpretable Natural Language Processing

4 citations · 11 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.AI2026

Reading the Whole Heart: Latent-Attention Masked Autoencoders for Multimodal Cardiac Representation Learning

Andrea Agostini, Simon Böhi, Moritz Vandenhirtz +7

Cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment rest on integrating complementary modalities, such as electrocardiogram, echocardiography, and chest X-rays, each capturing distinct but comp…

cs.CV2026

Bowel Obstruction Detection and Localization on Abdominal CT with Deep Learning

Moritz Vandenhirtz, Andrea Agostini, Dana Belde +5

Bowel obstruction is a common and potentially life-threatening gastrointestinal condition. In the face of rising diagnostic workloads, the automated diagnosis of bowel obstruction…

cs.LG2026

Foundation Model for Cardiac Time Series via Masked Latent Attention

Moritz Vandenhirtz, Samuel Ruipérez-Campillo, Simon Böhi +6

Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are among the most widely available clinical signals and play a central role in cardiovascular diagnosis. While recent foundation models (FMs) have shown…

cs.CV2026

Beyond Independent Frames: Latent Attention Masked Autoencoders for Multi-View Echocardiography

Simon Böhi, Irene Cannistraci, Sergio Muñoz Gonzalez +8

Echocardiography is a widely used modality for cardiac assessment due to its non-invasive and cost-effective nature, but the sparse and heterogeneous spatiotemporal views of the he…

cs.LG2026

Models Designed to Forget: Machine Unlearning via Key Deletion

Sonia Laguna, Jorge da Silva Goncalves, Moritz Vandenhirtz +3

Machine unlearning for vision models is rapidly becoming a practical requirement, driven by privacy regulations, data errors, and the need to remove harmful or corrupted training i…

cs.IR2026

Multimodal Generative Recommendation for Fusing Semantic and Collaborative Signals

Moritz Vandenhirtz, Kaveh Hassani, Shervin Ghasemlou +5

Sequential recommender systems rank relevant items by modeling a user's interaction history and computing the inner product between the resulting user representation and stored ite…

cs.CV2025

Structure is Supervision: Multiview Masked Autoencoders for Radiology

Sonia Laguna, Andrea Agostini, Alain Ryser +9

Building robust medical machine learning systems requires pretraining strategies that exploit the intrinsic structure present in clinical data. We introduce Multiview Masked Autoen…

cs.LG2025

Post-hoc Stochastic Concept Bottleneck Models

Wiktor Jan Hoffmann, Sonia Laguna, Moritz Vandenhirtz +2

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) are interpretable models that predict the target variable through high-level human-understandable concepts, allowing users to intervene on mispredi…

cs.CV2025

Leveraging the Structure of Medical Data for Improved Representation Learning

Andrea Agostini, Sonia Laguna, Alain Ryser +7

Building generalizable medical AI systems requires pretraining strategies that are data-efficient and domain-aware. Unlike internet-scale corpora, clinical datasets such as MIMIC-C…

cs.CV2025

Interpretable Diffusion Models with B-cos Networks

Nicola Bernold, Moritz Vandenhirtz, Alice Bizeul +1

Text-to-image diffusion models generate images by iteratively denoising random noise, conditioned on a prompt. While these models have enabled impressive progress in image generati…

cs.CV2025

From Pixels to Perception: Interpretable Predictions via Instance-wise Grouped Feature Selection

Moritz Vandenhirtz, Julia E. Vogt

Understanding the decision-making process of machine learning models provides valuable insights into the task, the data, and the reasons behind a model's failures. In this work, we…

cs.LG2025

Measuring Leakage in Concept-Based Methods: An Information Theoretic Approach

Mikael Makonnen, Moritz Vandenhirtz, Sonia Laguna +1

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) aim to enhance interpretability by structuring predictions around human-understandable concepts. However, unintended information leakage, where pre…

cs.CV2025

RadVLM: A Multitask Conversational Vision-Language Model for Radiology

Nicolas Deperrois, Hidetoshi Matsuo, Samuel Ruipérez-Campillo +12

The widespread use of chest X-rays (CXRs), coupled with a shortage of radiologists, has driven growing interest in automated CXR analysis and AI-assisted reporting. While existing…

cs.LG2024

Exploiting Interpretable Capabilities with Concept-Enhanced Diffusion and Prototype Networks

Alba Carballo-Castro, Sonia Laguna, Moritz Vandenhirtz +1

Concept-based machine learning methods have increasingly gained importance due to the growing interest in making neural networks interpretable. However, concept annotations are gen…

cs.CV2024

TreeDiffusion: Hierarchical Generative Clustering for Conditional Diffusion

Jorge da Silva Gonçalves, Laura Manduchi, Moritz Vandenhirtz +1

Generative modeling and clustering are conventionally distinct tasks in machine learning. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have been widely explored for their ability to integrate b…

cs.LG2024

From Logits to Hierarchies: Hierarchical Clustering made Simple

Emanuele Palumbo, Moritz Vandenhirtz, Alain Ryser +2

The hierarchical structure inherent in many real-world datasets makes the modeling of such hierarchies a crucial objective in both unsupervised and supervised machine learning. Whi…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Structured Generations: Using Hierarchical Clusters to guide Diffusion Models

Jorge da Silva Goncalves, Laura Manduchi, Moritz Vandenhirtz +1

This paper introduces Diffuse-TreeVAE, a deep generative model that integrates hierarchical clustering into the framework of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs). The p…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

scTree: Discovering Cellular Hierarchies in the Presence of Batch Effects in scRNA-seq Data

Moritz Vandenhirtz, Florian Barkmann, Laura Manduchi +2

We propose a novel method, scTree, for single-cell Tree Variational Autoencoders, extending a hierarchical clustering approach to single-cell RNA sequencing data. scTree corrects f…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Stochastic Concept Bottleneck Models

Moritz Vandenhirtz, Sonia Laguna, Ričards Marcinkevičs +1

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) have emerged as a promising interpretable method whose final prediction is based on intermediate, human-understandable concepts rather than the raw…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Beyond Concept Bottleneck Models: How to Make Black Boxes Intervenable?

Sonia Laguna, Ričards Marcinkevičs, Moritz Vandenhirtz +1

Recently, interpretable machine learning has re-explored concept bottleneck models (CBM). An advantage of this model class is the user's ability to intervene on predicted concept v…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

This Reads Like That: Deep Learning for Interpretable Natural Language Processing

Claudio Fanconi, Moritz Vandenhirtz, Severin Husmann +1

Prototype learning, a popular machine learning method designed for inherently interpretable decisions, leverages similarities to learned prototypes for classifying new data. While…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Tree Variational Autoencoders

Laura Manduchi, Moritz Vandenhirtz, Alain Ryser +1

We propose Tree Variational Autoencoder (TreeVAE), a new generative hierarchical clustering model that learns a flexible tree-based posterior distribution over latent variables. Tr…

cs.LG2023

Signal Is Harder To Learn Than Bias: Debiasing with Focal Loss

Moritz Vandenhirtz, Laura Manduchi, Ričards Marcinkevičs +1

Spurious correlations are everywhere. While humans often do not perceive them, neural networks are notorious for learning unwanted associations, also known as biases, instead of th…