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Unsupervised learning enables modeling complex images without the need for annotations. The representation learned by such models can facilitate any subsequent analysis of large image datasets. However, some generative factors that cause…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Maxime W. Lafarge , Josien P. W. Pluim , Mitko Veta

Instance features in images exhibit spurious correlations with background features, affecting the training process of deep neural classifiers. This leads to insufficient attention to instance features by the classifier, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xuewei Li , Zhenzhen Nie , Mei Yu , Zijian Zhang , Jie Gao , Tianyi Xu , Zhiqiang Liu

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

Spurious correlation caused by subgroup underrepresentation has received increasing attention as a source of bias that can be perpetuated by deep neural networks (DNNs). Distributionally robust optimization has shown success in addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Nilesh Kumar , Ruby Shrestha , Zhiyuan Li , Linwei Wang

Spurious correlations in training data often lead to robustness issues since models learn to use them as shortcuts. For example, when predicting whether an object is a cow, a model might learn to rely on its green background, so it would do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Raghav Mehta , Vítor Albiero , Li Chen , Ivan Evtimov , Tamar Glaser , Zhiheng Li , Tal Hassner

Data-efficiency and generalization are key challenges in deep learning and deep reinforcement learning as many models are trained on large-scale, domain-specific, and expensive-to-label datasets. Self-supervised models trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Mina Khan , P Srivatsa , Advait Rane , Shriram Chenniappa , Rishabh Anand , Sherjil Ozair , Pattie Maes

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are prone to learning spurious features that correlate with the label during training but are irrelevant to the learning problem. This hurts model generalization and poses problems when deploying them in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Nihal Murali , Aahlad Puli , Ke Yu , Rajesh Ranganath , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Despite significant advances in clustering methods in recent years, the outcome of clustering of a natural image dataset is still unsatisfactory due to two important drawbacks. Firstly, clustering of images needs a good feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Dipanjan Das , Ratul Ghosh , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Supervised machine learning models often associate irrelevant nuisance factors with the prediction target, which hurts generalization. We propose a framework for training robust neural networks that induces invariance to nuisances through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Ayush Jaiswal , Rob Brekelmans , Daniel Moyer , Greg Ver Steeg , Wael AbdAlmageed , Premkumar Natarajan

We propose a method for generating spurious features by leveraging large-scale text-to-image diffusion models. Although the previous work detects spurious features in a large-scale dataset like ImageNet and introduces Spurious ImageNet, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 AprilPyone MaungMaung , Huy H. Nguyen , Hitoshi Kiya , Isao Echizen

Fine-tuning a pretrained language model on a curated dataset can produce spurious correlations between the fine-tuning task and unintended latent factors -- such as misaligned personas or political slant -- that the curation procedure has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-28 Ciarán M. Gilligan-Lee , Joseph Egan , Yuchen Zhu , Michael O'Riordan

This work investigates three methods for calculating loss for autoencoder-based pretraining of image encoders: The commonly used reconstruction loss, the more recently introduced deep perceptual similarity loss, and a feature prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Gustav Grund Pihlgren , Fredrik Sandin , Marcus Liwicki

The unsupervised Pretraining method has been widely used in aiding human action recognition. However, existing methods focus on reconstructing the already present frames rather than generating frames which happen in future.In this paper, We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Yu Runsheng , Shi Zhenyu , Ma Qiongxiong , Qing Laiyun

Deep learning has seen widespread success in various domains such as science, industry, and society. However, it is acknowledged that certain approaches suffer from non-robustness, relying on spurious correlations for predictions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xiaoling Zhou , Wei Ye , Rui Xie , Shikun Zhang

Deep neural networks can be effective means to automatically classify aerial images but is easy to overfit to the training data. It is critical for trained neural networks to be robust to variations that exist between training and test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Jiayun Wang , Patrick Virtue , Stella X. Yu

In many classification datasets, the task labels are spuriously correlated with some input attributes. Classifiers trained on such datasets often rely on these attributes for prediction, especially when the spurious correlation is high, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Abhinav Kumar , Amit Deshpande , Amit Sharma

Unsupervised pre-training was a critical technique for training deep neural networks years ago. With sufficient labeled data and modern training techniques, it is possible to train very deep neural networks from scratch in a purely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Jianfeng Dong , Xiao-Jiao Mao , Chunhua Shen , Yu-Bin Yang

How can neural networks trained by contrastive learning extract features from the unlabeled data? Why does contrastive learning usually need much stronger data augmentations than supervised learning to ensure good representations? These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zixin Wen , Yuanzhi Li

Identifying and mitigating bias in deep learning algorithms has gained significant popularity in the past few years due to its impact on the society. Researchers argue that models trained on balanced datasets with good representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Puspita Majumdar , Surbhi Mittal , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa

The current mainstream and state-of-the-art anomaly detection (AD) methods are substantially established on pretrained feature networks yielded by ImageNet pretraining. However, regardless of supervised or self-supervised pretraining, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Xincheng Yao , Yan Luo , Zefeng Qian , Chongyang Zhang