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MLLMs show promise for low-cost concept-based AI explanations

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Researchers have developed a training-free approach for generating localized explanations in Explainable AI (XAI) using Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Their method, called Concept Naming (CoNa), evaluates how well these models can identify semantic concepts within specific regions of images, even at the object and part levels. Experiments with MLLMs ranging from 7B to 32B parameters demonstrated significant accuracy in object-level concept naming, suggesting a path towards more cost-effective XAI research. AI

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MLLMs show promise for low-cost concept-based AI explanations

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Darian Fern\'andez-Guti\'errez, Rafael Bello, Marilyn Bello, Natalia D\'iaz-Rodr\'iguez ·

    Low-cost concept-based localized explanations: How far can we get with training-free approaches?

    arXiv:2606.29069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concept-based Explainable AI (C-XAI) seeks human-understandable explanations grounded in semantic concepts, yet validation is limited by the scarcity of fine-grained concept annotations. We evaluate whether mid-scale Multimodal Larg…

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