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5 papers

cs.CV2026

Verifying the Linear Representation Hypothesis: How Interpretable Are Vision SAEs?

Teodor Chiaburu, Franz Motzkus, Frank Haußer +1

Vision Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have become a popular tool in Mechanistic Interpretability due to their presumed ability to disentangle complex features learned by a model into m…

cs.AI2026

Driving the Wrong Way: Leveraging Interpretability in End2End Autonomous Driving Models

Franz Motzkus, Sebastian Bernhard

The increasing adoption of end-to-end learning for autonomous driving introduces increased model complexity and opacity, raising the risk of learning undesired or erroneous behavio…

cs.LG2024

CoLa-DCE -- Concept-guided Latent Diffusion Counterfactual Explanations

Franz Motzkus, Christian Hellert, Ute Schmid

Recent advancements in generative AI have introduced novel prospects and practical implementations. Especially diffusion models show their strength in generating diverse and, at th…

cs.CV2024

Locally Testing Model Detections for Semantic Global Concepts

Franz Motzkus, Georgii Mikriukov, Christian Hellert +1

Ensuring the quality of black-box Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has become ever more significant, especially in safety-critical domains such as automated driving. While global concep…

cs.LG2024

The Anatomy of Adversarial Attacks: Concept-based XAI Dissection

Georgii Mikriukov, Gesina Schwalbe, Franz Motzkus +1

Adversarial attacks (AAs) pose a significant threat to the reliability and robustness of deep neural networks. While the impact of these attacks on model predictions has been exten…