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20242026
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8 papers

cs.LG2026

Playing the network backward: A Game Theoretic Attribution Framework

Jakob Paul Zimmermann, Jim Berend, Georg Loho +2

Attribution methods explain which input features drive a model's prediction, making them central to model debugging and mechanistic interpretability. Yet backward attribution metho…

cs.CV2026

Contrastive Semantic Projection: Faithful Neuron Labeling with Contrastive Examples

Oussama Bouanani, Jim Berend, Wojciech Samek +2

Neuron labeling assigns textual descriptions to internal units of deep networks. Existing approaches typically rely on highly activating examples, often yielding broad or misleadin…

cs.LG2026

Atlas-Alignment: Making Interpretability Transferable Across Language Models

Bruno Puri, Jim Berend, Sebastian Lapuschkin +1

Interpretability is crucial for building safe, reliable, and controllable language models, yet existing interpretability pipelines remain costly and difficult to scale. Interpretin…

cs.AI2026

X-SYS: A Reference Architecture for Interactive Explanation Systems

Tobias Labarta, Nhi Hoang, Maximilian Dreyer +5

The explainable AI (XAI) research community has proposed numerous technical methods, yet deploying explainability as systems remains challenging: Interactive explanation systems re…

cs.LG2025

Efficient and Flexible Neural Network Training through Layer-wise Feedback Propagation

Leander Weber, Jim Berend, Moritz Weckbecker +4

Gradient-based optimization has been a cornerstone of machine learning that enabled the vast advances of Artificial Intelligence (AI) development over the past decades. However, th…

cs.LG2025

From What to How: Attributing CLIP's Latent Components Reveals Unexpected Semantic Reliance

Maximilian Dreyer, Lorenz Hufe, Jim Berend +3

Transformer-based CLIP models are widely used for text-image probing and feature extraction, making it relevant to understand the internal mechanisms behind their predictions. Whil…