arXiv Machine Learning By Utku \c{S}irin, Cathy Hou, David Alvarez-Melis, Stratos Idreos

Low-Frequency Shortcuts in Texture-Driven Visual Learning

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arXiv:2606. 03493v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural networks suffer from shortcut learning, where learned features generalize well to the training set but not to in-distribution (ID) or out-of-distribution (OOD) test sets.

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