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Many machine learning algorithms are trained and evaluated by splitting data from a single source into training and test sets. While such focus on in-distribution learning scenarios has led to interesting advancement, it has not been able…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Hyojin Bahng , Sanghyuk Chun , Sangdoo Yun , Jaegul Choo , Seong Joon Oh

Predicting the chemical properties of compounds is crucial in discovering novel materials and drugs with specific desired characteristics. Recent significant advances in machine learning technologies have enabled automatic predictive…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-10 Yang Liu , Hisashi Kashima

Zero-Shot Stance Detection (ZSSD) identifies the attitude of the post toward unseen targets. Existing research using contrastive, meta-learning, or data augmentation suffers from generalizability issues or lack of coherence between text and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Apoorva Upadhyaya , Wolfgang Nejdl , Marco Fisichella

Visual data from the Web power image classifiers, which often underpin many web services, such as recommendation and content moderation. However, the raw Web data often contain spurious correlations and social biases, and neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jungwook Seo , Yoonsik Park , Changmin Lee , Sungyong Baik

Inference, especially those derived from inductive processes, is a crucial component in our conversation to complement the information implicitly or explicitly conveyed by a speaker. While recent large language models show remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Etsuko Ishii , Yan Xu , Bryan Wilie , Ziwei Ji , Holy Lovenia , Willy Chung , Pascale Fung

Stance detection on social media can help to identify and understand slanted news or commentary in everyday life. In this work, we propose a new model for zero-shot stance detection on Twitter that uses adversarial learning to generalize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Emily Allaway , Malavika Srikanth , Kathleen McKeown

Observational studies are a key resource for causal inference but are often affected by systematic biases. Prior work has focused mainly on detecting these biases, via sensitivity analyses and comparisons with randomized controlled trials,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-03 Ilker Demirel , Zeshan Hussain , Piersilvio De Bartolomeis , David Sontag

Feature disentanglement of the foreground target objects and the background surrounding context has not been yet fully accomplished. The lack of network interpretability prevents advancing for feature disentanglement and better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Mahdi Biparva , John Tsotsos

We study fairness in supervised few-shot meta-learning models that are sensitive to discrimination (or bias) in historical data. A machine learning model trained based on biased data tends to make unfair predictions for users from minority…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Chen Zhao , Feng Chen

Stance detection, as the task of determining the viewpoint of a social media post towards a target as 'favor' or 'against', has been understudied in the challenging yet realistic scenario where there is limited labeled data for a certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Parisa Jamadi Khiabani , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Despite commendable achievements made by existing work, prevailing multimodal sarcasm detection studies rely more on textual content over visual information. It unavoidably induces spurious correlations between textual words and labels,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mengzhao Jia , Can Xie , Liqiang Jing

More and more end-to-end text spotting methods based on Transformer architecture have demonstrated superior performance. These methods utilize a bipartite graph matching algorithm to perform one-to-one optimal matching between predicted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yu Xie , Qian Qiao , Jun Gao , Tianxiang Wu , Jiaqing Fan , Yue Zhang , Jielei Zhang , Huyang Sun

Explaining deep learning model inferences is a promising venue for scientific understanding, improving safety, uncovering hidden biases, evaluating fairness, and beyond, as argued by many scholars. One of the principal benefits of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Asma Ghandeharioun , Been Kim , Chun-Liang Li , Brendan Jou , Brian Eoff , Rosalind W. Picard

The task of temporal grounding aims to locate video moment in an untrimmed video, with a given sentence query. This paper for the first time investigates some superficial biases that are specific to the temporal grounding task, and proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Peijun Bao , Yadong Mu

How do we learn from biased data? Historical datasets often reflect historical prejudices; sensitive or protected attributes may affect the observed treatments and outcomes. Classification algorithms tasked with predicting outcomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 David Madras , Elliot Creager , Toniann Pitassi , Richard Zemel

News recommendation is important for improving news reading experience of users. Users' news click behaviors are widely used for inferring user interests and predicting future clicks. However, click behaviors are heavily affected by the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Yongfeng Huang

Reliably detecting diseases using relevant biological information is crucial for real-world applicability of deep learning techniques in medical imaging. We debias deep learning models during training against unknown bias - without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Simon Langer , Oliver Taubmann , Felix Denzinger , Andreas Maier , Alexander Mühlberg

Dataset bias is a significant challenge in machine learning, where specific attributes, such as texture or color of the images are unintentionally learned resulting in detrimental performance. To address this, previous efforts have focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Donggeun Ko , Sangwoo Jo , Dongjun Lee , Namjun Park , Jaekwang Kim

Concept-based explanation approach is a popular model interpertability tool because it expresses the reasons for a model's predictions in terms of concepts that are meaningful for the domain experts. In this work, we study the problem of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mohammad Taha Bahadori , David E. Heckerman

The paper proposes summarized attribution-based post-hoc explanations for the detection and identification of bias in data. A global explanation is proposed, and a step-by-step framework on how to detect and test bias is introduced. Since…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Agnieszka Mikołajczyk , Michał Grochowski , Arkadiusz Kwasigroch