English
Related papers

Related papers: Energy Aligning for Biased Models

200 papers

Pairwise models like the Ising model or the generalized Potts model have found many successful applications in fields like physics, biology, and economics. Closely connected is the problem of inverse statistical mechanics, where the goal is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-12 Christoph Feinauer , Carlo Lucibello

Addressing biases in AI models is crucial for ensuring fair and accurate predictions. However, obtaining large, unbiased datasets for training can be challenging. This paper proposes a comprehensive approach using multiple methods to remove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Ahmed Radwan , Layan Zaafarani , Jetana Abudawood , Faisal AlZahrani , Fares Fourati

A common issue for classification in scientific research and industry is the existence of imbalanced classes. When sample sizes of different classes are imbalanced in training data, naively implementing a classification method often leads…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-02 Yang Feng , Min Zhou , Xin Tong

Imbalanced datasets are commonplace in modern machine learning problems. The presence of under-represented classes or groups with sensitive attributes results in concerns about generalization and fairness. Such concerns are further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Mingchen Li , Xuechen Zhang , Christos Thrampoulidis , Jiasi Chen , Samet Oymak

Trained classification models can unintentionally lead to biased representations and predictions, which can reinforce societal preconceptions and stereotypes. Existing debiasing methods for classification models, such as adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Aili Shen , Xudong Han , Trevor Cohn , Timothy Baldwin , Lea Frermann

Data in real-world application often exhibit skewed class distribution which poses an intense challenge for machine learning. Conventional classification algorithms are not effective in the case of imbalanced data distribution, and may fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Enlu Lin , Qiong Chen , Xiaoming Qi

Energy-efficient machine learning models that can run directly on edge devices are of great interest in IoT applications, as they can reduce network pressure and response latency, and improve privacy. An effective way to obtain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Francesco Daghero , Alessio Burrello , Daniele Jahier Pagliari , Luca Benini , Enrico Macii , Massimo Poncino

We study the problem of learning classifiers that perform well across (known or unknown) groups of data. After observing that common worst-group-accuracy datasets suffer from substantial imbalances, we set out to compare state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Badr Youbi Idrissi , Martin Arjovsky , Mohammad Pezeshki , David Lopez-Paz

Long-tailed learning has garnered increasing attention due to its practical significance. Among the various approaches, the fine-tuning paradigm has gained considerable interest with the advent of foundation models. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jiahao Chen , Bin Qin , Jiangmeng Li , Hao Chen , Bing Su

In machine learning energy potentials for atomic systems, forces are commonly obtained as the negative derivative of the energy function with respect to atomic positions. To quantify aleatoric uncertainty in the predicted energies, a widely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-08 Peter Bjørn Jørgensen , Jonas Busk , Ole Winther , Mikkel N. Schmidt

Group bias in natural language processing tasks manifests as disparities in system error rates across texts authorized by different demographic groups, typically disadvantaging minority groups. Dataset balancing has been shown to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Xudong Han , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn

We consider the link prediction problem in a partially observed network, where the objective is to make predictions in the unobserved portion of the network. Many existing methods reduce link prediction to binary classification problem.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-23 Bopeng Li , Sougata Chaudhuri , Ambuj Tewari

Energy-based learning is a powerful learning paradigm that encapsulates various discriminative and generative approaches. An energy-based model (EBM) is typically formed of inner-model(s) that learn a combination of the different features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Firas Laakom , Jenni Raitoharju , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Class imbalance is a pervasive problem in predictive toxicology, where the number of non-toxic compounds often exceeds the number of toxic ones. Models trained on such data often perform well on the majority class but poorly on the minority…

Applications · Statistics 2025-10-10 Stanley E. Lazic

Deep learning enables impressive performance in image recognition using large-scale artificially-balanced datasets. However, real-world datasets exhibit highly class-imbalanced distributions, yielding two main challenges: relative imbalance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Saurabh Sharma , Ning Yu , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Machine learning models are typically deployed in a test setting that differs from the training setting, potentially leading to decreased model performance because of domain shift. If we could estimate the performance that a pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Zeju Li , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Mobarakol Islam , Chen Chen , Ben Glocker

We investigate the impact of limited data on training pairwise energy-based models for inverse problems aimed at identifying interaction networks. Utilizing the Gaussian model as testbed, we dissect training trajectories across the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Giovanni Catania , Aurélien Decelle , Cyril Furtlehner , Beatriz Seoane

Class imbalance, which is also called long-tailed distribution, is a common problem in classification tasks based on machine learning. If it happens, the minority data will be overwhelmed by the majority, which presents quite a challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Jia-Chen Zhao

Despite extensive research spanning several decades, class imbalance is still considered a profound difficulty for both machine learning and deep learning models. While data oversampling is the foremost technique to address this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Sukumar Kishanthan , Asela Hevapathige

Class-imbalance is one of the major challenges in real world datasets, where a few classes (called majority classes) constitute much more data samples than the rest (called minority classes). Learning deep neural networks using such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Saptarshi Sinha , Hiroki Ohashi , Katsuyuki Nakamura