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Shortcut learning causes deep learning models to rely on non-essential features within the data. However, its formation in deep neural network training still lacks theoretical understanding. In this paper, we provide a formal definition of…
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Common deep neural networks (DNNs) for image classification have been shown to rely on shortcut opportunities (SO) in the form of predictive and easy-to-represent visual factors. This is known as shortcut learning and leads to impaired…
Frequency analysis is useful for understanding the mechanisms of representation learning in neural networks (NNs). Most research in this area focuses on the learning dynamics of NNs for regression tasks, while little for classification.…
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