Safety, alignment & interpretability· 2017
Interpretability Beyond Feature Attribution: Quantitative Testing with Concept Activation Vectors (TCAV)
On the reading lists
- #197 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #22 in Safety, alignment & interpretability (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Shifted explanations from individual features toward human-understandable concepts and quantitative sensitivity tests.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2017 (from arXiv 1711.11279)
- Published
- 2018
- Citations
- 2,563 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.544 · computed rank 197 · consensus 0.89, must-read 0.5, citations percentile 0.649 (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.