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most citedSparse Explanations of Neural Networks Using Pruned Layer-Wise Relevance Propagation

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cs.LG2026

Interpreting Protein Language Model Embeddings via Orthogonal Projection for Protein Fitness Prediction

Paulo Yanez Sarmiento, Pia Francesca Rissom, Manuel Pfeuffer +6

Recently, there has been a growing adoption of protein language models (PLMs) in biomedical science. Their embeddings provide a rich numerical representation of protein sequences w…

q-bio.QM2026

Deterministic access to global viral sequence data enables robust agentic scientific discovery

Ferdous Nasri, Sarah Gurev, Patrick Varilly +6

Public viral genome resources such as the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Virus database are central to outbreak response, evolutionary analysis, vaccine desig…

cs.LG2026

Evaluating Post-hoc Explanations of the Transformer-based Genome Language Model DNABERT-2

Isabel Kurth, Paulo Yanez Sarmiento, Bernhard Y. Renard

Explaining deep neural network predictions on genome sequences enables biological insight and hypothesis generation-often of greater interest than predictive performance alone. Whi…

stat.ME2025

BaGGLS: A Bayesian Shrinkage Framework for Interpretable Modeling of Interactions in High-Dimensional Biological Data

Marta S. Lemanczyk, Lucas Kock, Johanna Schlimme +2

Biological data sets are often high-dimensional, noisy, and governed by complex interactions among sparse signals. This poses major challenges for interpretability and reliable fea…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Sparse Explanations of Neural Networks Using Pruned Layer-Wise Relevance Propagation

Paulo Yanez Sarmiento, Simon Witzke, Nadja Klein +1

Explainability is a key component in many applications involving deep neural networks (DNNs). However, current explanation methods for DNNs commonly leave it to the human observer…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Identifying Drivers of Predictive Aleatoric Uncertainty

Pascal Iversen, Simon Witzke, Katharina Baum +1

Explainability and uncertainty quantification are key to trustable artificial intelligence. However, the reasoning behind uncertainty estimates is generally left unexplained. Ident…