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AnyBottle method creates compact, task-specific AI concept models

Researchers have developed AnyBottle, a novel method for creating compact, task-specific concept bottleneck models (CBMs). Unlike previous annotation-free variants that used large, static concept vocabularies, AnyBottle utilizes a frozen backbone and an unsupervised concept pool, such as a sparse autoencoder. A black-box teacher model guides the selection process by identifying concepts that best explain the bottleneck's failures, thereby creating smaller, more inspectable bottlenecks. This approach has demonstrated effectiveness across various vision and text datasets, yielding fewer concepts and higher consistency compared to existing methods. AI

IMPACT Enables more efficient and interpretable AI models by reducing concept vocabulary size.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Wolfgang Stammer, Sukrut Rao, Hevra Petekkaya, David Steinmann, Bernt Schiele ·

    AnyBottle: A Recipe to Only Keep the Concepts You Really Need

    arXiv:2610.08552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concept bottleneck models (CBMs) make predictions inspectable and intervenable by routing them through human-interpretable concepts, but originally required concept annotations. Annotation-free variants remove this requirement, but …