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arXiv Machine Learning By Jingyuan Chen, Kangrui Ruan, Junzhe Zhang

Causal Variational Deep Embedding: A Family of Interventional Generators for Confounded Images

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arXiv:2606. 21806v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep generative models reproduce the observational distribution of their training data, inheriting any spurious associations it contains.

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