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A test-time convolutional head swap turns any pretrained black-box CNN into a self-explainable model that keeps its original accuracy while producing built-in faithful class activation maps.

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load-bearing objection The abstract promises a useful medical-XAI head-swap trick, but the supplied full text is an unrelated neutron-star paper, so the load-bearing equivalence and faithfulness claims cannot be checked. the 3 major comments →

arxiv 2603.26885 v2 pith:GSAWRHSV submitted 2026-03-27 cs.CV

TTE-CAM: Self-Explainable Class Activation Maps for Pretrained Black-Box CNNs

Kerol Djoumessi , Philipp Berens This is my paper
classification cs.CV
keywords class activation mapsexplainable AICNNstest-time explainabilitymedical image analysisfaithful explanationsblack-box models
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Convolutional neural networks deliver top accuracy on medical images but stay opaque, so clinicians hesitate to trust them. Post-hoc explanation methods only approximate what the network is doing and can be unfaithful; purpose-built interpretable architectures stay faithful but usually lose accuracy. This paper shows that you can keep the pretrained network exactly as it is and, at test time only, replace its final classification head with a simple convolutional head whose weights are copied from the original head. The resulting model still makes the same predictions yet now emits class activation maps as a native part of its forward pass. Those maps match or beat standard post-hoc techniques both visually and on quantitative faithfulness metrics, closing the long-standing trade-off between performance and explainability without any retraining.

Core claim

Replacing the classification head of a frozen pretrained CNN with a convolutional head initialized from the original weights converts the network into a self-explainable model whose built-in class activation maps are faithful to its true decision process while leaving predictive performance unchanged.

What carries the argument

The convolution-based replacement of the classification head, weight-initialized from the original dense head, which turns the final linear decision into a spatial map that is computed inside the forward pass itself.

Load-bearing premise

Copying the original head weights into the new convolutional head is enough to keep the network’s decisions identical while making the resulting activation maps truly faithful rather than merely plausible.

What would settle it

On a held-out medical-image test set, measure whether the modified model’s top-1 accuracy drops relative to the untouched black-box baseline and whether its native CAMs score lower than Grad-CAM or similar post-hoc maps on standard insertion/deletion faithfulness benchmarks; any clear drop falsifies the claim.

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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The submission under review is titled TTE-CAM and, per its abstract, proposes a test-time procedure that converts a pretrained black-box CNN into a self-explainable model by replacing the classification head with a convolution initialized from the original head weights. The claimed outcomes are (i) preservation of the black-box predictive performance and (ii) built-in class activation maps that are faithful and competitive with post-hoc CAM methods, especially for medical imaging. The abstract positions this as resolving the usual trade-off between unfaithful post-hoc explanations and performance-sacrificing inherently interpretable architectures, and points to a public code repository.

Significance. If the construction truly yields near-identical logits while making the CAM an exact readout of the model’s own computation, the result would be practically important: many clinical deployments already rely on strong pretrained CNNs and cannot afford full re-architecture or large accuracy drops. A test-time, weight-initialized head swap that is both performance-preserving and faithfulness-preserving would be a useful contribution to medical XAI. That significance, however, is entirely conditional on a correct algebraic construction, stated architectural preconditions, and quantitative evidence (accuracy tables, faithfulness metrics, ablations). None of those can be assessed from the materials actually supplied as the full manuscript.

major comments (3)
  1. The document provided as the full manuscript does not match the title, abstract, paper_id (2603.26885), or claimed contribution. The body is an unrelated general-relativity / nuclear-physics paper on dynamical tidal response of neutron stars (arXiv:2603.26886). There are no TTE-CAM equations, architecture diagrams, datasets, baselines, faithfulness metrics, accuracy tables, ablations, or qualitative CAM figures. Under these conditions the central claims cannot be refereed at all.
  2. Even restricting attention to the abstract, the load-bearing claim is that a convolution-based replacement of the classification head, initialized from the original weights, preserves the pretrained decision function and yields faithful built-in CAMs. That equivalence is architecture-dependent (global average pooling vs. multi-layer FC, bias terms, spatial reduction, etc.). The abstract does not state the preconditions under which exact or approximate logit equivalence holds, so performance preservation and faithfulness remain unverified assertions rather than demonstrated results.
  3. Faithfulness is asserted to be competitive with post-hoc methods both qualitatively and quantitatively, yet no definition of faithfulness, no metric (e.g., insertion/deletion, pointing game, model randomization), no dataset, and no comparison protocol appear in any inspectable part of the submission. Without those, the claim that explanations are faithful to the model’s true computation—as opposed to merely plausible heatmaps—cannot be evaluated.
minor comments (2)
  1. The abstract alone is clear and well written, but it is insufficient for a technical review of an XAI method that hinges on an exact head-replacement construction.
  2. A code link is given (https://github.com/kdjoumessi/Test-Time-Explainability); if the correct manuscript is restored, the camera-ready version should pin a commit/hash and document how to reproduce the main tables.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No circularity can be established: only the TTE-CAM abstract is available; the supplied full text is an unrelated neutron-star paper, so the head-replacement derivation cannot be inspected.

full rationale

The claimed contribution (replace the classification head by a convolution initialized from the original weights so that predictions are preserved and CAMs become built-in and faithful) is stated only in the abstract. No equations, architectural preconditions, or experimental definitions appear for TTE-CAM. The CACHEABLE full manuscript is a different paper (dynamical tides of neutron stars, arXiv:2603.26886) and supplies no TTE-CAM derivation chain to walk. From the abstract alone there is no self-definitional step, no fitted quantity relabeled as a prediction, no load-bearing uniqueness theorem imported from the authors, and no renaming of a known result. Faithfulness claims in XAI can sometimes be circular when success is defined by the same CAM machinery, but that reduction is not exhibited by any quoteable construction here. Honest finding: no significant circularity on the available text; score 0.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 3 axioms · 1 invented entities

Abstract-only review of TTE-CAM. Free parameters, modeling axioms, and invented entities cannot be exhaustively extracted from methods that are not present. Listed items are those implied by the abstract’s load-bearing construction.

free parameters (2)
  • Original classification-head weights used to initialize the convolutional replacement
    The conversion depends on transferring/initializing from the pretrained head; any scaling, reshaping, or channel mapping choices are free design choices not specified in the abstract.
  • Unspecified architectural details of the convolution-based head
    Kernel size, stride, pooling, and how class scores are read out from the convolutional head are not given in the abstract but determine both accuracy retention and CAM structure.
axioms (3)
  • domain assumption Post-hoc explanation methods are generally unfaithful approximations of model behavior, while inherently interpretable architectures are faithful but often lower accuracy.
    Stated as the fundamental trade-off motivating TTE-CAM; treated as background rather than re-derived.
  • ad hoc to paper A convolution-based replacement of the classification head, initialized from original weights, yields a model whose forward pass both preserves predictions and produces faithful class activation maps.
    This is the paper’s core constructive assumption; it is not a standard theorem and is not demonstrated in the available text.
  • domain assumption Class activation maps are an adequate form of explanation for high-stakes medical image decisions.
    Implicit in framing success as competitive CAM quality; clinical adequacy is assumed rather than established here.
invented entities (1)
  • TTE-CAM (test-time explainability via convolutional head replacement) no independent evidence
    purpose: Name and package the procedure that converts a pretrained black-box CNN into a self-explainable model at test time.
    New named framework introduced by the paper; independent evidence would be public code plus controlled experiments showing accuracy parity and faithfulness gains, which are not verifiable from the abstract alone.

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in medical image analysis yet remain opaque, limiting adoption in high-stakes clinical settings. Existing approaches face a fundamental trade-off: post-hoc methods provide unfaithful approximate explanations, while inherently interpretable architectures are faithful but often sacrifice predictive performance. We introduce TTE-CAM, a test-time framework that bridges this gap by converting pretrained black-box CNNs into self-explainable models via a convolution-based replacement of their classification head, initialized from the original weights. The resulting model preserves black-box predictive performance while delivering built-in faithful explanations competitive with post-hoc methods, both qualitatively and quantitatively. The code is available at https://github.com/kdjoumessi/Test-Time-Explainability

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