Decorr: Environment partitioning for invariant learning and ood generalization

Y Liao, Q Wu, X Yan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.10054, 2022 - arxiv.org
Invariant learning methods try to find an invariant predictor across several environments and
have become popular in OOD generalization. However, in situations where environments do …

Bias-Conflict Sample Synthesis and Adversarial Removal Debias Strategy for Temporal Sentence Grounding in Video

Z Qi, Y Yuan, X Ruan, S Wang, W Zhang… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Temporal Sentence Grounding in Video (TSGV) is troubled by dataset bias issue, which is
caused by the uneven temporal distribution of the target moments for samples with similar …

Robustness, Evaluation and Adaptation of Machine Learning Models in the Wild

V Piratla - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.02781, 2023 - arxiv.org
Our goal is to improve reliability of Machine Learning (ML) systems deployed in the wild. ML
models perform exceedingly well when test examples are similar to train examples …

Self-supervised knowledge distillation in counterfactual learning for VQA

Y Bi, H Jiang, H Zhang, Y Hu, B Yin - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
As a popular cross-modal reasoning task, Visual Question Answering (VQA) has achieved
great progress in recent years. However, the issue of language bias has always affected the …

On Leakage in Machine Learning Pipelines

L Sasse, E Nicolaisen-Sobesky, J Dukart… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Machine learning (ML) provides powerful tools for predictive modeling. ML's popularity
stems from the promise of sample-level prediction with applications across a variety of fields …

Methods for Estimating and improving robustness of language models

M Štefánik - arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.08446, 2022 - arxiv.org
Despite their outstanding performance, large language models (LLMs) suffer notorious flaws
related to their preference for simple, surface-level textual relations over full semantic …

ASPIRE: Language-Guided Augmentation for Robust Image Classification

S Ghosh, CKR Evuru, S Kumar, U Tyagi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Neural image classifiers can often learn to make predictions by overly relying on non-
predictive features that are spuriously correlated with the class labels in the training data …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond Distribution Shift: Spurious Features Through the Lens of Training Dynamics

N Murali, A Puli, K Yu, R Ranganath… - … on machine learning …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are prone to learning spurious features that
correlate with the label during training but are irrelevant to the learning problem. This hurts …

Frustratingly Easy Environment Discovery for Invariant Learning

S Zare, HV Nguyen - Computer Sciences & Mathematics Forum, 2024 - mdpi.com
Standard training via empirical risk minimization may result in making predictions that overly
rely on spurious correlations. This can degrade the generalization to out-of-distribution …

Look beyond bias with entropic adversarial data augmentation

T Duboudin, E Dellandréa, C Abgrall… - 2022 26th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural networks do not discriminate between spurious and causal patterns, and will
only learn the most predictive ones while ignoring the others. This shortcut learning …