arxivcs.CV2026-07-08
Naming the Concepts Classifiers Rely On: Language-Anchored Decomposition for Faithful Explanation
Ahsan Habib Akash, Dipkamal Bhusal, Stacey Jones, Donald A. Adjeroh, Binod Bhattarai, Prashnna Kumar Gyawali
Deep neural networks are widely deployed in high-stakes visual applications where interpretability is critical, yet existing explanations face a trade-off: post-hoc concept methods recover factors that are faithful to a model's behavior but unnamed, while naming and by-design met…