PiPS: Post-Hoc Prototypical Explanations for Interpretable Semantic Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16909v1
• Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:40:37 GMT
• Title: PiPS: Post-Hoc Prototypical Explanations for Interpretable Semantic Segmentation
• Abstract summary: We propose PiPS (Post-hoc interpretable Prototypical), the first fully post-hoc solution for generating explanations for semantic segmentation models.<n>Our method enables the extraction of intuitive, spatially localized explanations from any pre-trained network without modification or fine-tuning.<n>This approach opens a new avenue for the safe and cost-effective deployment of transparent systems in advanced computer vision tasks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: With the increasing deployment of deep neural networks in critical systems, such as medical diagnostics and autonomous vehicles, ensuring their interpretability is crucial to building trust in decision-making systems. In the field of explainable artificial intelligence, prototype-based reasoning has gained particular popularity, as it mimics human cognitive processes by explaining model decisions based on visual similarity under the looks like this paradigm. While this paradigm has been thoroughly investigated in the context of global image classification, the interpretability of dense predictions, particularly semantic segmentation, remains largely unexplored despite its immense importance in tasks requiring precise object localization. Existing prototype-based interpretable segmentation models rely on ante-hoc architectures, which entails significant limitations because they require costly training from scratch and modifications to the network structure, ultimately leading to a noticeable drop in predictive performance compared to standard black-box models. To address this issue, we propose PiPS (Post-hoc interpretable Prototypical Segmentation), the first fully post-hoc solution for generating prototypical explanations for semantic segmentation models. Our method enables the extraction of intuitive, spatially localized explanations from any pre-trained network without modification or fine-tuning, thereby preserving 100% of the model's original predictive performance. This approach opens a new avenue for the safe and cost-effective deployment of transparent systems in advanced computer vision tasks. Codebase available at https://github.com/gmum/PIPS.

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