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However, existing methods often ignore the inherent relationships of different concepts (e.g., dog and cat both belong to animals), and thus lose the chance to explain neurons responsible for higher-level concepts (e.g., animal). In this paper, we study hierarchical concepts inspired by the hierarchical cognition process of human beings. To this end, we propose HIerarchical Neuron concepT explainer (HINT) to effectively build bidirectional associations between neurons and hierarchical concepts in a low-cost and scalable manner. HINT enables us to systematically and quantitatively study whether and how the implicit hierarchical relationships of concepts are embedded into neurons, such as identifying collaborative neurons responsible to one concept and multimodal neurons for different concepts, at different semantic levels from concrete concepts (e.g., dog) to more abstract ones (e.g., animal). Finally, we verify the faithfulness of the associations using Weakly Supervised Object Localization, and demonstrate its applicability in various tasks such as discovering saliency regions and explaining adversarial attacks. 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