@first.principles.ai: What if an AI model didn’t just give you a prediction — but also showed you the concepts it used to get there?
That’s the idea behind **Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs)**.
Instead of mapping an input directly to an output, a CBM introduces an interpretable intermediate layer:
**Input → Concepts → Prediction**
**x → c → y**
In this carousel, we break down the key ideas step by step:
→ Why Concept Bottleneck Models are useful
→ How the two-stage prediction architecture works
→ What makes a “concept” different from a latent feature
→ Which model architectures can implement a CBM
→ How humans can intervene and correct concept predictions
→ How CBMs differ from post-hoc XAI methods such as SHAP
→ Where information can be lost in the bottleneck
→ Where CBMs can be applied beyond image classification
The central idea is simple but powerful:
**Interpretability is not added after the prediction — it becomes part of the prediction pathway itself.**
At the same time, interpretability comes with important design questions: Are the chosen concepts informative enough? Can they be predicted reliably? And do they capture the information needed for the downstream task?
Swipe through for a visual introduction to one of the most interesting approaches in interpretable machine learning.
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How is this different to chaln-of-reasoning. I guess reasoning is not necessarily about semantic steps/features?
2026-09-28 18:53:47
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Jakob :
How does this affect accuracy? Also, how many examples is needed in the training for c? I nay be wrong but it looks like supervised learning, and labeling numbers between 0-1 for maybe hundreds of features manually for many inputs seems very tedious.
2026-09-23 08:06:19
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First.Principles.AI :
yes thats exactly the problem of this approach. But its an option to bring human understandable checks into ai
2026-09-26 08:11:35
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