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Aya Abdelsalam Ismail

6 accepted papers

2025

Concept Bottleneck Language Models For Protein Design

ICLR 2025poster

We introduce Concept Bottleneck Protein Language Models (CB-pLM), a generative masked language model with a layer where each neuron corresponds to an interpretable concept. Our architecture offers three key benefits: i) Control: We can intervene on concept values to precisely control the properties…

2025

Implicit Generative Property Enhancer

NeurIPS 2025poster

Generative modeling is increasingly important for data-driven computational design. Conventional approaches pair a generative model with a discriminative model to select or guide samples toward optimized designs. Yet discriminative models often struggle in data-scarce settings, common in scientific…

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2024

Concept Bottleneck Generative Models

ICLR 2024poster

We introduce a generative model with an intrinsically interpretable layer---a concept bottleneck layer---that constrains the model to encode human-understandable concepts. The concept bottleneck layer partitions the generative model into three parts: the pre-concept bottleneck portion, the CB layer,…

Cited by 48SourcePDFScholar
2021

Improving Deep Learning Interpretability by Saliency Guided Training

NeurIPS 2021poster

Saliency methods have been widely used to highlight important input features in model predictions. Most existing methods use backpropagation on a modified gradient function to generate saliency maps. Thus, noisy gradients can result in unfaithful feature attributions. In this paper, we tackle this i…

2020

Benchmarking Deep Learning Interpretability in Time Series Predictions

NeurIPS 2020poster

Saliency methods are used extensively to highlight the importance of input features in model predictions. These methods are mostly used in vision and language tasks, and their applications to time series data is relatively unexplored. In this paper, we set out to extensively compare the performance…

2019

Input-Cell Attention Reduces Vanishing Saliency of Recurrent Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2019poster

Recent efforts to improve the interpretability of deep neural networks use saliency to characterize the importance of input features to predictions made by models. Work on interpretability using saliency-based methods on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) has mostly targeted language tasks, and their…