Rank-Constrained Adaptation for Reliable Real-World Performance
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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:2610.01028v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning models often suffer performance degradation under subpopulation shift, particularly when spurious correlations cause models to rely...
arXiv:2606.23609v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning models exploit spurious correlations, achieving high average accuracy but failing disproportionately on underrepresented sub...
arXiv:2608. 13190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group-robust learning is crucial for maintaining accuracy on rare subpopulations when training-group labels are unavailable.
Machine learning models exploit spurious correlations, achieving high average accuracy but failing disproportionately on underrepresented subgroups. Existing methods address this by adjusting network parameters, guided either by subgroup annotations or inferred pseudo-group labels.
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