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48 results for concept discovery

New methods identify concepts in trained embeddings reliably without human labels.

problem Identifying interpretable concepts in trained embedding spaces without human labels.
method Explicitly connecting concept discovery to PCA and ICA, proposing novel approaches for dependent concepts.
result Proven methods outperform competitors on a variety of experiments, achieving up to 29% better alignment with ground truth.

LORL learns object-centric representations from vision and language.

problem Learning disentangled, object-centric scene representations from vision and language.
method LORL integrates unsupervised object discovery and segmentation with language input to learn object-centric concepts.
result LORL improves unsupervised object discovery methods and aids downstream tasks.

New method extracts biological concepts from cell microscopy images.

problem Extracting meaningful concepts from vision foundation models trained on cell microscopy images.
method Sparse dictionary learning (DL) combined with PCA whitening pre-processing.
result Successfully retrieved biologically meaningful concepts like cell types and genetic perturbations.

This work improves interpretability in deep learning models by introducing a two-level concept discovery framework.

problem High complexity and lack of interpretability in deep learning models, especially for safety-critical tasks.
method Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) framework combining vision-language models and data-driven coarse-to-fine concept selection.
result The proposed framework outperforms recent CBM approaches and provides a principled interpretability.

MCD offers a complete model understanding for high-stake decisions.

problem Local model understanding in XAI methods is not sufficient for high-stake decisions.
method MCD extends concept-based methods to ensure global model understanding via multi-dimensional subspaces.
result MCD provides a complete model understanding, ensuring the model reasoning is related to the actual model.

Causal discovery algorithms can help generate legal arguments.

problem Leveraging causal discovery algorithms in legal decision-making.
method Prepared a legal dataset, annotated with 17 legal concepts, applied causal discovery algorithms, and quantified degrees of belief.
result Some causal relationships help generate viable legal arguments.

GPR enhances materials discovery by automating parameter space exploration.

problem Automating exploration of large, high-dimensional parameter spaces in materials science.
method Gaussian process regression with inhomogeneous measurement noise and anisotropic kernels.
result Importance and benefits of tuning GPR for materials science experiments.

Paper discovers differential equations from data using neural networks and Bayesian methods.

problem Discovering differential equations from datasets using machine learning.
method Integrates neural network-based surrogates with Sparse Bayesian Learning (SBL).
result Proposes a robust model discovery algorithm and a Physics Informed Normalizing Flow (PINF).

We propose Deep Feature Factorization (DFF), a method capable of localizing similar semantic concepts within an image or a set of images. We use DFF to gain insight into a deep convolutional neural network's learned features, where we detect hierarchical cluster structures in feature space. This is visualized as heat m…

2018-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Cluster analysis is one of the essential tasks in data mining and knowledge discovery. Each type of data poses unique challenges in achieving relatively efficient partitioning of the data into homogeneous groups. While the algorithms for numeric data are relatively well studied in the literature, there are still challe…

2018-12-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Geometric framework detects concept frustration between human concepts and machine representations.

problem Aligning human concepts with machine learning representations.
method Geometric framework and similarity measures for detecting concept frustration.
result Concept frustration affects machine learning model performance and reorganizes learned concept representations.

New method improves bivariate causal discovery by accurately estimating cause variable complexity.

problem Improper estimation of cause variable complexity in current MDL-based methods.
method Rate-distortion MDL (RDMDL) using information dimension for cause variable complexity estimation.
result RDMDL achieves competitive performance on Tübingen dataset.

Since time immemorial, people have been looking for ways to organize scientific knowledge into some systems to facilitate search and discovery of new ideas. The problem was partially solved in the pre-Internet era using library classifications, but nowadays it is nearly impossible to classify all scientific and popular…

2018-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Although deep convolutional networks have achieved improved performance in many natural language tasks, they have been treated as black boxes because they are difficult to interpret. Especially, little is known about how they represent language in their intermediate layers. In an attempt to understand the representatio…

2019-02-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified framework controls false discovery rate in bandit multiple testing.

problem Designing adaptive algorithms to identify true discoveries in multiple hypothesis testing.
method Unified modular framework using e-processes for FDR control in arbitrary settings.
result Unified framework ensures FDR control for dependent and simultaneous arm queries.

The paper tests semantic importance in opaque models using betting.

problem Precise statistical guarantees for semantic concepts in black-box models.
method Formalizes global and local statistical importance via conditional independence and SKIT.
result Shows effectiveness and flexibility of the framework on various models.

This paper presents a framework for exact discovery of the top-k sequential patterns under Leverage. It combines (1) a novel definition of the expected support for a sequential pattern - a concept on which most interestingness measures directly rely - with (2) SkOPUS: a new branch-and-bound algorithm for the exact disc…

2015-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Study examines XAI methods for ECG analysis to improve model transparency.

problem Lack of transparency in deep learning models for ECG analysis.
method Investigates post-hoc XAI methods for local and global perspectives, establishes sanity checks, and demonstrates knowledge discovery.
result Quantitative evidence supports expert rules for sensible attribution methods and demonstrates XAI's utility for knowledge discovery.

Automated discovery of early visual concepts from raw image data is a major open challenge in AI research. Addressing this problem, we propose an unsupervised approach for learning disentangled representations of the underlying factors of variation. We draw inspiration from neuroscience, and show how this can be achiev…

2016-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Biological research often involves testing a growing number of null hypotheses as new data is accumulated over time. We study the problem of online control of the familywise error rate (FWER), that is testing an apriori unbounded sequence of hypotheses (p-values) one by one over time without knowing the future, such th…

2019-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Dynamic Structural Causal Models handle time-dependent systems with cycles and latent confounding.

problem Representing and analyzing systems of Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs) with DSCMs.
method Define time-splitting and subsampling operations to analyze DSCMs of SDEs, and apply existing causal discovery algorithms to time-series data.
result DSCMs provide a graphical Markov property for SDEs and enable identification of time-dependent causal effects.

LFD method improves text classification by making features clearer and less label-leaking.

problem Creating interpretable text representations that are both predictive and understandable.
method LFD method: proposes lexical and semantic features from contrastive text pairs, screens candidates using κκ, and selects features by residual gain.
result LFD features achieve higher human-human and human-LLM agreement than baseline concepts and are less label-leaking.

This paper uses spectrum analysis to understand price behavior in the Indian stock market.

problem Understanding price formation and discovery in the Indian stock market.
method Adapting mathematical physics theories and spectrum analysis to decompose price cycles.
result Decomposing price cycles helps in understanding the effect of information on price formation and discovery.

Discovery of atomistic systems with desirable properties is a major challenge in chemistry and material science. Here we introduce a novel, autoregressive, convolutional deep neural network architecture that generates molecular equilibrium structures by sequentially placing atoms in three-dimensional space. The model e…

2018-10-26abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper examines how institutional liquidity affects prediction markets.

problem How institutional liquidity impacts prediction markets and their quality.
method Defines a market-quality lens, separates channels, and uses synthetic microstructure lab.
result Institutional liquidity does not necessarily translate to equal gains for all traders.

Paper introduces a new identifiability criterion for DAGs using conditional variances.

problem Challenges in discovering causal relationships from observational data.
method Introduces a novel identifiability criterion for DAGs using conditional variances. Uses weak majorization on Cholesky factor of covariance matrix for learning DAGs.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of the new approach in recovering DAGs through simulations and real data analysis.

Conformal Prediction Regions match Imprecise Highest Density Regions under consonance.

problem Matching conformal prediction regions with highest density regions.
method Using consonance and the Imprecise Probability theory of clouds.
result Imprecise Highest Density Regions are equivalent to Conformal Prediction Regions under consonance.