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New method enhances VLM interpretability in medicine

Researchers have developed ParseFIxLIP, a novel method to improve the interpretability of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in medical applications. This new approach integrates Tree-Gram Parsing into the Banzhaf interaction game, addressing the issue of concept fragmentation caused by tokenizers in clinical terms. By grouping semantically related text tokens into coherent units based on dependency parsing trees, ParseFIxLIP generates more interpretable cross-modal attributions. The method has been validated on BiomedCLIP using medical imagery from ROCOv2, demonstrating its ability to capture the synergistic influence of grouped words on model predictions and provide clinically relevant insights. AI

IMPACT Improves the trustworthiness and clinical adoption of medical VLMs by providing more coherent and interpretable explanations.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jakub Rymarski (University of Warsaw, Poland), Adam Rempa{\l}a (University of Warsaw, Poland), Bart{\l}omiej Sobieski (University of Warsaw, Poland), Przemys{\l}aw Biecek (University of Warsaw, Poland) ·

    Explaining BiomedCLIP with Weighted Banzhaf Interactions Supported by Tree-Gram Parsing

    arXiv:2607.23368v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are demonstrating significant capabilities in medical tasks like radiology analysis, yet providing faithful and interpretable explanations remains a key consideration for their responsible deployment …