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The development of deep learning based image representation learning (IRL) methods has attracted great attention for various image understanding problems. Most of these methods require the availability of a high quantity and quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Gencer Sumbul , Begüm Demir

Despite the success of machine learning applications in science, industry, and society in general, many approaches are known to be non-robust, often relying on spurious correlations to make predictions. Spuriousness occurs when some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Chun-Hao Chang , George Alexandru Adam , Anna Goldenberg

Manually annotating datasets for training deep models is very labor-intensive and time-consuming. To overcome such inferiority, directly leveraging web images to conduct training data becomes a natural choice. Nevertheless, the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhenhuang Cai , Chuanyi Zhang , Dan Huang , Yuanbo Chen , Xiuyun Guan , Yazhou Yao

The problem of spurious correlations (SCs) arises when a classifier relies on non-predictive features that happen to be correlated with the labels in the training data. For example, a classifier may misclassify dog breeds based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Aengus Lynch , Gbètondji J-S Dovonon , Jean Kaddour , Ricardo Silva

Neural image classifiers can often learn to make predictions by overly relying on non-predictive features that are spuriously correlated with the class labels in the training data. This leads to poor performance in real-world atypical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Sreyan Ghosh , Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru , Sonal Kumar , Utkarsh Tyagi , Sakshi Singh , Sanjoy Chowdhury , Dinesh Manocha

Recent research in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has concentrated on retrieving useful information from candidate documents. However, numerous methodologies frequently neglect the calibration capabilities of large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Guanhua Chen , Yutong Yao , Lidia S. Chao , Xuebo Liu , Derek F. Wong

Deep learning models can suffer from severe performance degradation when relying on spurious correlations between input features and labels, making the models perform well on training data but have poor prediction accuracy for minority…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Tao Wen , Zihan Wang , Quan Zhang , Qi Lei

Unsupervised image clustering methods often introduce alternative objectives to indirectly train the model and are subject to faulty predictions and overconfident results. To overcome these challenges, the current research proposes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sungwon Park , Sungwon Han , Sundong Kim , Danu Kim , Sungkyu Park , Seunghoon Hong , Meeyoung Cha

Standard training via empirical risk minimization (ERM) can produce models that achieve high accuracy on average but low accuracy on certain groups, especially in the presence of spurious correlations between the input and label. Prior…

Group distributionally robust optimization, which aims to improve robust accuracies -- worst-group and unbiased accuracies -- is a prominent algorithm used to mitigate spurious correlations and address dataset bias. Although existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Seonguk Seo , Bohyung Han

Recent years have witnessed the great success of self-supervised learning (SSL) in recommendation systems. However, SSL recommender models are likely to suffer from spurious correlations, leading to poor generalization. To mitigate spurious…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Xinyu Lin , Yiyan Xu , Wenjie Wang , Yang Zhang , Fuli Feng

Deep neural networks are prone to overfitting noisy labels, resulting in poor generalization performance. To overcome this problem, we present a simple and effective method self-ensemble label correction (SELC) to progressively correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yangdi Lu , Wenbo He

Matching the performance of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks with little supervision is an important task, especially in venturing into new domains. We design a new training algorithm, which is robust to missing or ambiguous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Sewoong Oh , Ashish Khetan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success across diverse tasks. However, their generalization capability is often hindered by spurious correlations between node features and labels in the graph. Our analysis reveals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuxiang Zhang , Enyan Dai

Deep classifiers are known to rely on spurious features $\unicode{x2013}$ patterns which are correlated with the target on the training data but not inherently relevant to the learning problem, such as the image backgrounds when classifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Pavel Izmailov , Polina Kirichenko , Nate Gruver , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Large-scale datasets may contain significant proportions of noisy (incorrect) class labels, and it is well-known that modern deep neural networks (DNNs) poorly generalize from such noisy training datasets. To mitigate the issue, we propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-15 Kimin Lee , Sukmin Yun , Kibok Lee , Honglak Lee , Bo Li , Jinwoo Shin

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

Online stores often utilize product relationships such as bundles and substitutes to improve their catalog quality and guide customers through myriad choices. Entity resolution using pairwise product matching models offers a means of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Robert A. Barton , Tal Neiman , Changhe Yuan

We propose self-adaptive training---a new training algorithm that dynamically corrects problematic training labels by model predictions without incurring extra computational cost---to improve generalization of deep learning for potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Lang Huang , Chao Zhang , Hongyang Zhang

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to enable models to learn new classes sequentially while retaining knowledge of previous ones. Although current methods have alleviated catastrophic forgetting (CF), recent studies highlight that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Guannan Lai , Yujie Li , Xiangkun Wang , Junbo Zhang , Tianrui Li , Xin Yang