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A highly accurate but overconfident model is ill-suited for deployment in critical applications such as healthcare and autonomous driving. The classification outcome should reflect a high uncertainty on ambiguous in-distribution samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Sumedha Singla , Nihal Murali , Forough Arabshahi , Sofia Triantafyllou , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Current sequential recommender systems are proposed to tackle the dynamic user preference learning with various neural techniques, such as Transformer and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, inference from the highly sparse user behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yuhao Yang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chunzhen Huang , Da Luo , Kangyi Lin

Federated learning enables collaborative training of deep learning models across institutions without sharing sensitive patient data. However, its performance is often limited by small datasets and non-independent, identically distributed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Hongyi Pan , Ziliang Hong , Gorkem Durak , Ziyue Xu , Ulas Bagci

The reliance of text classifiers on spurious correlations can lead to poor generalization at deployment, raising concerns about their use in safety-critical domains such as healthcare. In this work, we propose to use counterfactual data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Amir Feder , Yoav Wald , Claudia Shi , Suchi Saria , David Blei

Image classification models tend to make decisions based on peripheral attributes of data items that have strong correlation with a target variable (i.e., dataset bias). These biased models suffer from the poor generalization capability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jungsoo Lee , Eungyeup Kim , Juyoung Lee , Jihyeon Lee , Jaegul Choo

When an image classifier outputs a wrong class label, it can be helpful to see what changes in the image would lead to a correct classification. This is the aim of algorithms generating counterfactual explanations. However, there is no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Benedikt Höltgen , Lisa Schut , Jan M. Brauner , Yarin Gal

The prevalence of half-truths, which are statements containing some truth but that are ultimately deceptive, has risen with the increasing use of the internet. To help combat this problem, we have created a comprehensive pipeline consisting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Sandeep Singamsetty , Nishtha Madaan , Sameep Mehta , Varad Bhatnagar , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Unsupervised question answering is an attractive task due to its independence on labeled data. Previous works usually make use of heuristic rules as well as pre-trained models to construct data and train QA models. However, most of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yuxiang Nie , Heyan Huang , Zewen Chi , Xian-Ling Mao

As growing usage of social media websites in the recent decades, the amount of news articles spreading online rapidly, resulting in an unprecedented scale of potentially fraudulent information. Although a plenty of studies have applied the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Hao Chen , Peng Zheng , Xin Wang , Shu Hu , Bin Zhu , Jinrong Hu , Xi Wu , Siwei Lyu

Facial manipulation by deep fake has caused major security risks and raised severe societal concerns. As a countermeasure, a number of deep fake detection methods have been proposed recently. Most of them model deep fake detection as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Aakash Varma Nadimpalli , Ajita Rattani

Counterfactual fairness methods address the question: How would the prediction change if the sensitive identity attributes referenced in the text instance were different? These methods are entirely based on generating counterfactuals for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Mohit Wadhwa , Mohan Bhambhani , Ashvini Jindal , Uma Sawant , Ramanujam Madhavan

While contrastive learning greatly advances the representation of sentence embeddings, it is still limited by the size of the existing sentence datasets. In this paper, we present TransAug (Translate as Augmentation), which provide the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jue Wang

While counterfactual data augmentation offers a promising step towards robust generalization in natural language processing, producing a set of counterfactuals that offer valuable inductive bias for models remains a challenge. Most existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Phillip Howard , Gadi Singer , Vasudev Lal , Yejin Choi , Swabha Swayamdipta

Data augmentations are effective in improving the invariance of learning machines. We argue that the core challenge of data augmentations lies in designing data transformations that preserve labels. This is relatively straightforward for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Youzhi Luo , Michael McThrow , Wing Yee Au , Tao Komikado , Kanji Uchino , Koji Maruhashi , Shuiwang Ji

We present a novel framework for augmenting data sets for machine learning based on counterexamples. Counterexamples are misclassified examples that have important properties for retraining and improving the model. Key components of our…

Estimating counterfactual distributions under interventions is central to treatment risk assessment and counterfactual generation tasks. Existing approaches model the counterfactual distribution as a standalone generative target, without…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-11 Hugh Dance , Johnny Xi , Peter Orbanz , Benjamin Bloem-Reddy

This paper proposes a novel framework to reinforce classification models using language-guided generated counterfactual images. Deep learning classification models are often trained using datasets that mirror real-world scenarios. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xiang Li , Ren Togo , Keisuke Maeda , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

In this paper, a data augmentation method is proposed for depression detection from speech signals. Samples for data augmentation were created by changing the frame-width and the frame-shift parameters during the feature extraction process.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Vijay Ravi , Jinhan Wang , Jonathan Flint , Abeer Alwan

Benefiting from the effectiveness of graph neural networks (GNNs) and contrastive learning, GNN-based contrastive learning has become mainstream for knowledge-aware recommendation. However, most existing contrastive learning-based methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shengyin Sun , Chen Ma

The growing integration of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models into high-stakes domains such as healthcare and scientific research calls for models that are not only accurate but also interpretable. Among the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhuo Cao , Xuan Zhao , Lena Krieger , Hanno Scharr , Ira Assent