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5 papers

cs.AI2026

Structural Compactness as a Complementary Criterion for Explanation Quality

Mohammad Mahdi Mesgari, Jackie Ma, Wojciech Samek +2

In the evaluation of attribution quality, the quantitative assessment of explanation legibility is particularly difficult, as it is influenced by varying shapes and internal organi…

cs.HC2025

See What I Mean? CUE: A Cognitive Model of Understanding Explanations

Tobias Labarta, Nhi Hoang, Katharina Weitz +3

As machine learning systems increasingly inform critical decisions, the need for human-understandable explanations grows. Current evaluations of Explainable AI (XAI) often prioriti…

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

Relevance-driven Input Dropout: an Explanation-guided Regularization Technique

Shreyas Gururaj, Lars Grüne, Wojciech Samek +2

Overfitting is a well-known issue extending even to state-of-the-art (SOTA) Machine Learning (ML) models, resulting in reduced generalization, and a significant train-test performa…

cs.CV2025

Navigating Neural Space: Revisiting Concept Activation Vectors to Overcome Directional Divergence

Frederik Pahde, Maximilian Dreyer, Leander Weber +5

With a growing interest in understanding neural network prediction strategies, Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) have emerged as a popular tool for modeling human-understandable co…