Safety, alignment & interpretability· 2013
Deep Inside Convolutional Networks: Visualising Image Classification Models and Saliency Maps
On the reading lists
- #166 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #20 in Safety, alignment & interpretability (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Established gradient-based saliency maps as a foundational technique for understanding image classifiers.
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The record
- First released
- 2013 (from arXiv 1312.6034)
- Citations
- 8,625 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.584 · computed rank 166 · consensus 0.8, must-read 0.5, citations percentile 0.84 (2010s · safety), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each count names its source. See the method.