arXiv:2502. 18975v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine learning models are inherently bound to the distribution of the training data, often exploiting non-causal shortcuts.
arXiv:2606. 01723v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world regression often exhibits shortcuts: attributes that are spuriously correlated with continuous targets in training, yet unreliable under deployment shifts; regressing targets using such shortcuts may fail catastrophically at test time.
SAGE (Subpopulation-Aware Generative Enhancement) is a two-stage generative augmentation framework designed to mitigate spurious correlations in machine learning when group labels are unavailable. It uses cluster-derived sub-labels and class labels to fine‑tune a conditional generative model and text encoder, producing synthetic data that fills underrepresented regions and creates a balanced validation set for last‑layer reweighting. Experiments show SAGE improves worst‑group accuracy to 89.5%, 85.7%, and 79.1% on Waterbirds, CelebA, and MetaShift, outperforming existing group‑label‑free baselines by up to 7.7 percentage points.
arXiv:2606. 02830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world datasets often contain spurious correlations that are not causally related to the target label.
arXiv:2609.39177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep neural networks tend to rely on simple features that may be spurious and thus fail to generalize. We study this problem in the setting of linear p...
arXiv:2610.01028v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning models often suffer performance degradation under subpopulation shift, particularly when spurious correlations cause models to rely...
The paper introduces eXplaining to Learn (eX2L), an interpretable framework that regularizes a classifier by penalizing similarity between Grad‑CAM maps of the main label classifier and a confounder classifier. This approach decorrelates confounding features from latent representations during training. On the Spawrious Many‑to‑Many Hard Challenge benchmark, eX2L outperforms the current state‑of‑the‑art by 5.49% in average accuracy and 10.90% in worst‑group accuracy, while also demonstrating functional domain invariance through explicit label‑nuisance decoupling.
arXiv:2610.00873v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In many industrial applications, 1) tabular data is scarce and imbalanced and thus requires synthetic expansion; 2) input distributions drift between...
arXiv:2606. 28460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-driven modeling in real-world regression tasks often suffers from limited training samples, high collection costs, and noisy observations.
arXiv:2608. 05419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Models trained by empirical risk minimization on data containing spurious correlations achieve high average accuracy while failing on subpopulations where the correlation does not hold.
arXiv:2511. 22823v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Weakly supervised learning has emerged as a practical alternative to fully supervised learning when complete and accurate labels are costly or infeasible to acquire.
Dataset distillation (DD) condenses large corpora into compact, information-rich subsets for efficient training and reuse. However, under noisy supervision, DD risks condensing corrupted associations together with useful signals, degrading robustness.
arXiv:2610.00968v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Causal representation learning aims to discover robust features by exploiting the causal structure underlying data generation. Existing methods requi...