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Though the background is an important signal for image classification, over reliance on it can lead to incorrect predictions when spurious correlations between foreground and background are broken at test time. Training on a dataset where…

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Variational Autoencoders and Generative Adversarial Networks remained the state-of-the-art (SOTA) generative models until 2022. Now they are superseded by diffusion-based models. Efforts to improve traditional models have stagnated as a…

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