arXiv:2604.02468cs.CVcs.AI2026-04被引 1

让模型像人一样分层理解概念,解释更清晰。

Hierarchical, Interpretable, Label-Free Concept Bottleneck Model

  • 构建分层概念框架,支持从抽象到具体的多级解释。
  • 在多个基准数据集上分类准确率优于现有稀疏CBM方法。
  • 无需人工标注概念关系,适合追求可解释性的研究者。

概念瓶颈模型(CBMs)通过人类可理解的概念来预测标签,提升黑箱深度学习模型的可解释性。然而,与人类利用通用和具体特征在不同抽象层次识别对象不同,现有CBMs在概念和标签空间中仅运行于单一语义层级。本文提出HIL-CBM,一种分层、可解释、无标签的概念瓶颈模型,将CBMs扩展为分层框架,更贴近人类认知过程。HIL-CBM在不依赖概念关系标注的情况下,实现跨多语义层级的分类与解释,使基于概念的解释抽象层级与模型预测一致,由抽象向具体递进。该方法通过(i)引入基于梯度的视觉一致性损失,促使抽象层关注相似空间区域;(ii)训练双分类头,分别处理不同抽象层级的特征概念。在基准数据集上的实验表明,HIL-CBM在分类准确率上优于当前最优的稀疏CBMs。人类评估进一步验证其解释更具可读性和准确性,同时保持分层与无标签的概念设计。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) introduce interpretability to black-box deep learning models by predicting labels through human-understandable concepts. However, unlike humans, who identify objects at different levels of abstraction using both general and specific features, existing CBMs operate at a single semantic level in both concept and label space. We propose HIL-CBM, a Hierarchical Interpretable Label-Free Concept Bottleneck Model that extends CBMs into a hierarchical framework to enhance interpretability by more closely mirroring the human cognitive process. HIL-CBM enables classification and explanation across multiple semantic levels without requiring relational concept annotations. HIL-CBM aligns the abstraction level of concept-based explanations with that of model predictions, progressing from abstract to concrete. This is achieved by (i) introducing a gradient-based visual consistency loss that encourages abstraction layers to focus on similar spatial regions, and (ii) training dual classification heads, each operating on feature concepts at different abstraction levels. Experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that HIL-CBM outperforms state-of-the-art sparse CBMs in classification accuracy. Human evaluations further show that HIL-CBM provides more interpretable and accurate explanations, while maintaining a hierarchical and label-free approach to feature concepts.

可解释性概念瓶颈分层模型无监督

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