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Supervised learning is often affected by a covariate shift in which the marginal distributions of instances (covariates $x$) of training and testing samples $\mathrm{p}_\text{tr}(x)$ and $\mathrm{p}_\text{te}(x)$ are different but the label…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-12 José I. Segovia-Martín , Santiago Mazuelas , Anqi Liu

The popularity of transfer learning stems from the fact that it can borrow information from useful auxiliary datasets. Existing statistical transfer learning methods usually adopt a global similarity measure between the source data and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ruqian Zhang , Yijiao Zhang , Annie Qu , Zhongyi Zhu , Juan Shen

A common assumption in semi-supervised learning is that the labeled, unlabeled, and test data are drawn from the same distribution. However, this assumption is not satisfied in many applications. In many scenarios, the data is collected…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Gholamali Aminian , Mahed Abroshan , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Laura Toni , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Identifying covariate shift is crucial for making machine learning systems robust in the real world and for detecting training data biases that are not reflected in test data. However, detecting covariate shift is challenging, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Matthew L. Olson , Thuy-Vy Nguyen , Gaurav Dixit , Neale Ratzlaff , Weng-Keen Wong , Minsuk Kahng

Quantifying the influence of infinitesimal changes in training data on model performance is crucial for understanding and improving machine learning models. In this work, we reformulate this problem as a weighted empirical risk minimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Omri Lev , Ashia C. Wilson

A fundamental challenge in offline reinforcement learning is distributional shift. Scarce data or datasets dominated by out-of-distribution (OOD) areas exacerbate this issue. Our theoretical analysis and experiments show that the standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Nan Qiao , Sheng Yue , Shuning Wang , Yongheng Deng , Ju Ren

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits strong zero-shot performance on natural images but suffers from domain shift and overconfidence when applied to medical volumes. We propose \textbf{CalSAM}, a lightweight adaptation framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Behraj Khan , Tahir Qasim Syed

In the context of deep learning, many optimization methods use gradient covariance information in order to accelerate the convergence of Stochastic Gradient Descent. In particular, starting with Adagrad, a seemingly endless line of research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Nikolaos Tselepidis , Jonas Kohler , Antonio Orvieto

Effective data partitioning is known to be crucial in machine learning. Traditional cross-validation methods like K-Fold Cross-Validation (KFCV) enhance model robustness but often compromise generalisation assessment due to high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Christopher Godwin Udomboso , Caston Sigauke , Ini Adinya

The approximation of a general $d$-variate function $f$ by the shifts $\phi(\cdot-\xi)$, $\xi\in\Xi\subset \Rd$, of a fixed function $\phi$ occurs in many applications such as data fitting, neural networks, and learning theory. When…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2008-02-19 Ronald DeVore , Amos Ron

Confounding bias, missing data, and selection bias are three common obstacles to valid causal inference in the data sciences. Covariate adjustment is the most pervasive technique for recovering casual effects from confounding bias. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Mojdeh Saadati , Jin Tian

Achieving the generalization of an invariant classifier from training domains to shifted test domains while simultaneously considering model fairness is a substantial and complex challenge in machine learning. Existing methods address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Dong Li , Chen Zhao , Minglai Shao , Wenjun Wang

Software vulnerability detection can be formulated as a binary classification problem that determines whether a given code snippet contains security defects. Existing multimodal methods typically fuse Natural Code Sequence (NCS)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yun Bian , Yi Chen , HaiQuan Wang , ShiHao Li , Zhe Cui

Conformal prediction (CP) provides powerful, distribution-free prediction sets, but its guarantees rely on the exchangeability of training and test data, which is often violated in practice due to covariate shifts. While weighted conformal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 James Wang , Surbhi Goel

Covariate shift has been shown to sharply degrade both predictive accuracy and the calibration of uncertainty estimates for deep learning models. This is worrying, because covariate shift is prevalent in a wide range of real world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Zachary Nado , Shreyas Padhy , D. Sculley , Alexander D'Amour , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Jasper Snoek

This paper proposes a new subspace learning method, named Quantized Fisher Discriminant Analysis (QFDA), which makes use of both machine learning and information theory. There is a lack of literature for combination of machine learning and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-09 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Saheb Pasand , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

The goal of few-shot learning is to learn a classifier that can recognize unseen classes from limited support data with labels. A common practice for this task is to train a model on the base set first and then transfer to novel classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Jie Qin , Marios Savvides , Kwang-Ting Cheng

We propose a novel amortized variational inference scheme for an empirical Bayes meta-learning model, where model parameters are treated as latent variables. We learn the prior distribution over model parameters conditioned on limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Ekaterina Iakovleva , Jakob Verbeek , Karteek Alahari

Estimating treatment effects from observational data is challenging due to two main reasons: (a) hidden confounding, and (b) covariate mismatch (control and treatment groups not having identical distributions). Long lines of works exist…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Praharsh Nanavati , Ranjitha Prasad , Karthikeyan Shanmugam

In the covariate shift learning scenario, the training and test covariate distributions differ, so that a predictor's average loss over the training and test distributions also differ. In this work, we explore the potential of extreme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Fulton Wang , Cynthia Rudin