Safety, alignment & interpretability· 2013
Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
On the reading lists
- #85 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #8 in Safety, alignment & interpretability (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Revealed learned CNN features through deconvolutional visualizations, influencing architecture design and model analysis.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2013 (from arXiv 1311.2901)
- Published
- 2014
- Citations
- 17,496 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Also relevant to
- Computer vision & multimodal
- Score
- 0.680 · computed rank 85 · consensus 0.84, must-read 0.5, citations percentile 0.936 (2010s · safety), awards 0, existing lists 0.5. 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.