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most citedConcept Embedding Models: Beyond the Accuracy-Explainability Trade-Off

36 citations · 51 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2026

Multi-Agent AI Control: Distributed Attacks Hamper Per-Instance Monitors

Oliver Makins, Orazio Angelini, Zohreh Shams +1

AI control is a family of techniques to prevent an AI with malicious goals from subverting its operator's intent. AI Control usually studies a single agent in one trajectory, but r…

physics.ao-ph2025

Explaining Surface Layer Theory Departures in Marine Flux Profiles with Data-Driven Discovery

Jack Foxabbott, Leo Mckee-Reid, Andrew Cusick +8

Monin--Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST), which underpins nearly all bulk estimates of surface fluxes in the atmospheric surface layer, assumes monotonic wind profiles and verticall…

cs.LG2025

Benchmarking the Discovery Engine

Jack Foxabbott, Arush Tagade, Andrew Cusick +6

The Discovery Engine is a general purpose automated system for scientific discovery, which combines machine learning with state-of-the-art ML interpretability to enable rapid and r…

cs.LG2025

Avoiding Leakage Poisoning: Concept Interventions Under Distribution Shifts

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Gabriele Dominici, Pietro Barbiero +2

In this paper, we investigate how concept-based models (CMs) respond to out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs. CMs are interpretable neural architectures that first predict a set of hig…

cs.LG2024

Efficient Bias Mitigation Without Privileged Information

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Swami Sankaranarayanan, Jerone T. A. Andrews +3

Deep neural networks trained via empirical risk minimisation often exhibit significant performance disparities across groups, particularly when group and task labels are spuriously…

q-bio.OT2023★ 1 cited

Gene Expression Patterns of CsZCD and Apocarotenoid Accumulation during Saffron Stigma Development

Zohreh Shams

Crocus sativus L., otherwise known as saffron, is a highly prized plant due to its unique triploid capability and elongated stigmas, contributing to its status as the costly spice…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Learning to Receive Help: Intervention-Aware Concept Embedding Models

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Katherine M. Collins, Krishnamurthy Dvijotham +3

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) tackle the opacity of neural architectures by constructing and explaining their predictions using a set of high-level concepts. A special property…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

CGXplain: Rule-Based Deep Neural Network Explanations Using Dual Linear Programs

Konstantin Hemker, Zohreh Shams, Mateja Jamnik

Rule-based surrogate models are an effective and interpretable way to approximate a Deep Neural Network's (DNN) decision boundaries, allowing humans to easily understand deep learn…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Towards Robust Metrics for Concept Representation Evaluation

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Pietro Barbiero, Zohreh Shams +4

Recent work on interpretability has focused on concept-based explanations, where deep learning models are explained in terms of high-level units of information, referred to as conc…

cs.LG2022★ 36 cited

Concept Embedding Models: Beyond the Accuracy-Explainability Trade-Off

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Pietro Barbiero, Gabriele Ciravegna +9

Deploying AI-powered systems requires trustworthy models supporting effective human interactions, going beyond raw prediction accuracy. Concept bottleneck models promote trustworth…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Efficient Decompositional Rule Extraction for Deep Neural Networks

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Zohreh Shams, Mateja Jamnik

In recent years, there has been significant work on increasing both interpretability and debuggability of a Deep Neural Network (DNN) by extracting a rule-based model that approxim…

q-bio.GN2020★ 2 cited

Using ontology embeddings for structural inductive bias in gene expression data analysis

Maja Trębacz, Zohreh Shams, Mateja Jamnik +4

Stratifying cancer patients based on their gene expression levels allows improving diagnosis, survival analysis and treatment planning. However, such data is extremely highly dimen…

q-bio.MN2020

Incorporating network based protein complex discovery into automated model construction

Paul Scherer, Maja Trȩbacz, Nikola Simidjievski +4

We propose a method for gene expression based analysis of cancer phenotypes incorporating network biology knowledge through unsupervised construction of computational graphs. The s…

cs.LG2020

MARLeME: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Model Extraction Library

Dmitry Kazhdan, Zohreh Shams, Pietro Liò

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) encompasses a powerful class of methodologies that have been applied in a wide range of fields. An effective way to further empower these…

cs.AI2017★ 1 cited

Practical Reasoning with Norms for Autonomous Software Agents (Full Edition)

Zohreh Shams, Marina De Vos, Julian Padget +1

Autonomous software agents operating in dynamic environments need to constantly reason about actions in pursuit of their goals, while taking into consideration norms which might be…