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20202025
most citedUnderstanding the computational demands underlying visual reasoning

13 citations · 48 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.AI2025

Back to the Baseline: Examining Baseline Effects on Explainability Metrics

Agustin Martin Picard, Thibaut Boissin, Varshini Subhash +2

Attribution methods are among the most prevalent techniques in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and are usually evaluated and compared using Fidelity metrics, with Inserti…

cs.LG2023★ 9 cited

A Holistic Approach to Unifying Automatic Concept Extraction and Concept Importance Estimation

Thomas Fel, Victor Boutin, Mazda Moayeri +5

In recent years, concept-based approaches have emerged as some of the most promising explainability methods to help us interpret the decisions of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Unlocking Feature Visualization for Deeper Networks with MAgnitude Constrained Optimization

Thomas Fel, Thibaut Boissin, Victor Boutin +9

Feature visualization has gained substantial popularity, particularly after the influential work by Olah et al. in 2017, which established it as a crucial tool for explainability.…

cs.CV2022★ 5 cited

CRAFT: Concept Recursive Activation FacTorization for Explainability

Thomas Fel, Agustin Picard, Louis Bethune +5

Attribution methods, which employ heatmaps to identify the most influential regions of an image that impact model decisions, have gained widespread popularity as a type of explaina…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Xplique: A Deep Learning Explainability Toolbox

Thomas Fel, Lucas Hervier, David Vigouroux +12

Today's most advanced machine-learning models are hardly scrutable. The key challenge for explainability methods is to help assisting researchers in opening up these black boxes, b…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Don't Lie to Me! Robust and Efficient Explainability with Verified Perturbation Analysis

Thomas Fel, Melanie Ducoffe, David Vigouroux +4

A variety of methods have been proposed to try to explain how deep neural networks make their decisions. Key to those approaches is the need to sample the pixel space efficiently i…

cs.CV2021★ 4 cited

What I Cannot Predict, I Do Not Understand: A Human-Centered Evaluation Framework for Explainability Methods

Julien Colin, Thomas Fel, Remi Cadene +1

A multitude of explainability methods and associated fidelity performance metrics have been proposed to help better understand how modern AI systems make decisions. However, much o…

cs.CV2021★ 11 cited

Look at the Variance! Efficient Black-box Explanations with Sobol-based Sensitivity Analysis

Thomas Fel, Remi Cadene, Mathieu Chalvidal +3

We describe a novel attribution method which is grounded in Sensitivity Analysis and uses Sobol indices. Beyond modeling the individual contributions of image regions, Sobol indice…

cs.CV2021★ 13 cited

Understanding the computational demands underlying visual reasoning

Mohit Vaishnav, Remi Cadene, Andrea Alamia +3

Visual understanding requires comprehending complex visual relations between objects within a scene. Here, we seek to characterize the computational demands for abstract visual rea…

cs.LG2020

How Good is your Explanation? Algorithmic Stability Measures to Assess the Quality of Explanations for Deep Neural Networks

Thomas Fel, David Vigouroux, Rémi Cadène +1

A plethora of methods have been proposed to explain how deep neural networks reach their decisions but comparatively, little effort has been made to ensure that the explanations pr…