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Raasikh Kanjiani

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arXiv2025

LatentExplainer: Explaining Latent Representations in Deep Generative Models with Multimodal Large Language Models

Deep generative models like VAEs and diffusion models have advanced various generation tasks by leveraging latent variables to learn data distributions and generate high-quality samples. Despite the field of explainable AI making strides in interpreting machine learning models, understanding latent variables in generative models remains challenging. This paper introduces LatentExplainer, a framework for automatically generating semantically meaningful explanations of latent variables in deep generative models. LatentExplainer tackles three main challenges: inferring the meaning of latent variables, aligning explanations with inductive biases, and handling varying degrees of explainability. Our approach perturbs latent variables, interprets changes in generated data, and uses multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to produce human-understandable explanations. We evaluate our proposed method on several real-world and synthetic datasets, and the results demonstrate superior performance in generating high-quality explanations for latent variables. The results highlight the effectiveness of incorporating inductive biases and uncertainty quantification, significantly enhancing model interpretability.

cs.LG↗

arXiv2025

Taxonomy Tree Generation from Citation Graph

Constructing taxonomies from citation graphs is essential for organizing scientific knowledge, facilitating literature reviews, and identifying emerging research trends. However, manual taxonomy construction is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and prone to human biases, often overlooking pivotal but less-cited papers. In this paper, to enable automatic hierarchical taxonomy generation from citation graphs, we propose HiGTL (Hierarchical Graph Taxonomy Learning), a novel end-to-end framework guided by human-provided instructions or preferred topics. Specifically, we propose a hierarchical citation graph clustering method that recursively groups related papers based on both textual content and citation structure, ensuring semantically meaningful and structurally coherent clusters. Additionally, we develop a novel taxonomy node verbalization strategy that iteratively generates central concepts for each cluster, leveraging a pre-trained large language model (LLM) to maintain semantic consistency across hierarchical levels. To further enhance performance, we design a joint optimization framework that fine-tunes both the clustering and concept generation modules, aligning structural accuracy with the quality of generated taxonomies. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HiGTL effectively produces coherent, high-quality taxonomies.

cs.CL↗