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.
By Guanrong Xu, Jessica Li, Hao Wang, Yuzhe Yang
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.
By Yiming Luo, Rongqiang Zhao, Jie Liu
arXiv:2606. 02830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world datasets often contain spurious correlations that are not causally related to the target label.
By Arda Fazla, Abolfazl Hashemi
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...
By Floris Holstege, Bram Wouters, Noud van Giersbergen, Cees Diks
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...
By Sung Ho Jo, Seonghwi Kim, Wonsang Yun, Minwoo Chae
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.
By Paulo Mario P. Medina, Jose Marie Antonio Mi\~noza, Sebastian C. Iba\~nez