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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[If Concept Bottlenecks are the Question, are Foundation Models the Answer?]]></title>
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        <updated>2025-04-28T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[An empirical study asking whether Vision-Language Models can truly replace human expert annotations in Concept Bottleneck Models — and finding that the answer is more nuanced than expected.]]></summary>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Concepts Worth Having: Refining Concept Bottleneck Models with Minimal Annotations]]></title>
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        <updated>2026-05-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Introducing VH-CBM, a hybrid approach that combines Vision-Language Models with sparse human annotations to build more accurate and interpretable AI classifiers.]]></summary>
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