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Data leakage has been identified in 648 published machine learning papers across 30 scientific fields. The knowledge to prevent it exists; the tools do not enforce it. This paper presents a grammar - eight typed primitives, a directed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Simon Roth

Out-of-distribution generalization is a common problem that expects the model to perform well in the different distributions even far from the train data. A popular approach to addressing this issue is invariant learning (IL), in which the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jiaqi Wang , Yuhang Zhou , Zhixiong Zhang , Qiguang Chen , Yongqiang Chen , James Cheng

To achieve near-zero training error in a classification problem, the layers of a feed-forward network have to disentangle the manifolds of data points with different labels, to facilitate the discrimination. However, excessive class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Simone Ciceri , Lorenzo Cassani , Matteo Osella , Pietro Rotondo , Filippo Valle , Marco Gherardi

Causal representation learning has showed a variety of settings in which we can disentangle latent variables with identifiability guarantees (up to some reasonable equivalence class). Common to all of these approaches is the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Amin Mansouri , Jason Hartford , Yan Zhang , Yoshua Bengio

This paper contains analysis of concept of a class within different object-oriented knowledge representation models. The main attention is paid to structure of the class and its efficiency in the context of data storage, using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Dmytro Terletskyi

An application security has two primary goals: first, it is intended to prevent unauthorised personnel from accessing information at higher classification than their authorisation. Second, it is intended to prevent personnel from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-06-24 Kotrappa Sirbi , Prakash Jayanth Kulkarni

Controlled generation refers to the problem of creating text that contains stylistic or semantic attributes of interest. Many approaches reduce this problem to training a predictor of the desired attribute. For example, researchers hoping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Carolina Zheng , Claudia Shi , Keyon Vafa , Amir Feder , David M. Blei

One-shot learning has become an important research topic in the last decade with many real-world applications. The goal of one-shot learning is to classify unlabeled instances when there is only one labeled example per class. Conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhongfang Zhuang , Xiangnan Kong , Elke Rundensteiner , Aditya Arora , Jihane Zouaoui

In imperative programming, the Domain-Driven Design methodology helps in coping with the complexity of software development by materializing in code the invariants of a domain of interest. Code is cleaner and more secure because any…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Mario Alviano , Giovambattista Ianni , Francesco Pacenza , Jessica Zangari

Large intra-class variation is the result of changes in multiple object characteristics. Images, however, only show the superposition of different variable factors such as appearance or shape. Therefore, learning to disentangle and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Dominik Lorenz , Leonard Bereska , Timo Milbich , Björn Ommer

Concept-based Models aim to improve interpretability by predicting high-level intermediate concepts, representing a promising approach for deployment in high-risk scenarios. However, they are known to suffer from information leakage,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Enrico Parisini , Tapabrata Chakraborti , Chris Harbron , Ben D. MacArthur , Christopher R. S. Banerji

Out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization is indispensable for learning models in the wild, where testing distribution typically unknown and different from the training. Recent methods derived from causality have shown great potential in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Mengyue Yang , Zhen Fang , Yonggang Zhang , Yali Du , Furui Liu , Jean-Francois Ton , Jianhong Wang , Jun Wang

Providing invariances in a given learning task conveys a key inductive bias that can lead to sample-efficient learning and good generalisation, if correctly specified. However, the ideal invariances for many problems of interest are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ruchika Chavhan , Henry Gouk , Jan Stühmer , Timothy Hospedales

Elegant Objects (EO) is a programming language based on ideas of pure objects and the Decorator pattern. Bugayenko has suggested it as an intermediate representation for object-oriented programs. This paper presents a version of dynamic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Vitaliy Korbashov , Nikolai Kudasov , Mikhail Olokin , Violetta Sim

Representations of data that are invariant to changes in specified factors are useful for a wide range of problems: removing potential biases in prediction problems, controlling the effects of covariates, and disentangling meaningful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Daniel Moyer , Shuyang Gao , Rob Brekelmans , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

Neural networks have emerged as powerful tools across various applications, yet their decision-making process often remains opaque, leading to them being perceived as "black boxes." This opacity raises concerns about their interpretability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Pirzada Suhail , Hao Tang , Amit Sethi

One of the obstacles in automatic program proving is to obtain suitable loop invariants. The invariant of a loop is a weakened form of its postcondition (the loop's goal, also known as its contract); the present work takes advantage of this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Carlo A. Furia , Bertrand Meyer

A systematic way of defining variants of a modeling language is useful for adapting the language to domain or project specific needs. Variants can be obtained by adapting the syntax or semantics of the language. In this paper, we take a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Hans Grönninger , Bernhard Rumpe

Existing Incremental Object Detection (IOD) methods partially alleviate catastrophic forgetting when incrementally detecting new objects in real-world scenarios. However, many of these methods rely on the assumption that unlabeled old-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zijia An , Boyu Diao , Libo Huang , Ruiqi Liu , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu

Machine unlearning offers a promising solution to privacy and safety concerns in large language models (LLMs) by selectively removing targeted knowledge while preserving utility. However, current methods are highly sensitive to downstream…