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Conventionally, AI models are thought to trade off explainability for lower accuracy. We develop a training strategy that not only leads to a more explainable AI system for object classification, but as a consequence, suffers no perceptible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Andrea Zunino , Sarah Adel Bargal , Riccardo Volpi , Mehrnoosh Sameki , Jianming Zhang , Stan Sclaroff , Vittorio Murino , Kate Saenko

The goal of domain generalization algorithms is to predict well on distributions different from those seen during training. While a myriad of domain generalization algorithms exist, inconsistencies in experimental conditions -- datasets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Ishaan Gulrajani , David Lopez-Paz

Reliable predictive uncertainty estimation plays an important role in enabling the deployment of neural networks to safety-critical settings. A popular approach for estimating the predictive uncertainty of neural networks is to define a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-29 Tim G. J. Rudner , Zonghao Chen , Yee Whye Teh , Yarin Gal

This paper explores the topic of transportability, as a sub-area of generalisability. By proposing the utilisation of metrics based on well-established statistics, we are able to estimate the change in performance of NLP models in new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Guy Marshall , Mokanarangan Thayaparan , Philip Osborne , Andre Freitas

In real-life applications, machine learning models often face scenarios where there is a change in data distribution between training and test domains. When the aim is to make predictions on distributions different from those seen at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Lucas Mansilla , Rodrigo Echeveste , Diego H. Milone , Enzo Ferrante

Medical imaging models frequently fail when deployed across hospitals, scanners, populations, or imaging protocols due to domain shift, limiting their clinical reliability. While transfer learning and domain adaptation address such shifts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mohammed M. Abdelsamea , Daniel Tweneboah Anyimadu , Tasneem Selim , Saif Alzubi , Lei Zhang , Ahmed Karam Eldaly , Xujiong Ye

A basic assumption of statistical learning theory is that train and test data are drawn from the same underlying distribution. Unfortunately, this assumption doesn't hold in many applications. Instead, ample labeled data might exist in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-21 Oscar Beijbom

Transfer learning is a problem defined over two domains. These two domains share the same feature space and class label space, but have significantly different distributions. One domain has sufficient labels, named as source domain, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Hongqi Wang , Anfeng Xu , Shanshan Wang , Sunny Chughtai

We present a new transport-based approach to efficiently perform sequential Bayesian inference of static model parameters. The strategy is based on the extraction of conditional distribution from the joint distribution of parameters and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-29 Paul-Baptiste Rubio , Youssef Marzouk , Matthew Parno

In open-world scenarios, where both novel classes and domains may exist, an ideal segmentation model should detect anomaly classes for safety and generalize to new domains. However, existing methods often struggle to distinguish between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Zhitong Gao , Bingnan Li , Mathieu Salzmann , Xuming He

Accurately predicting the possible behaviors of traffic participants is an essential capability for autonomous vehicles. Since autonomous vehicles need to navigate in dynamically changing environments, they are expected to make accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yeping Hu , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Characterizing domains is essential for models analyzing dynamic environments, as it allows them to adapt to evolving conditions or to hand the task over to backup systems when facing conditions outside their operational domain. Existing…

This PhD thesis contains several contributions to the field of statistical causal modeling. Statistical causal models are statistical models embedded with causal assumptions that allow for the inference and reasoning about the behavior of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-05 Martin Emil Jakobsen

Temporal domain generalization is a promising yet extremely challenging area where the goal is to learn models under temporally changing data distributions and generalize to unseen data distributions following the trends of the change. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Guangji Bai , Chen Ling , Liang Zhao

Predicting the future trajectories of nearby objects plays a pivotal role in Robotics and Automation such as autonomous driving. While learning-based trajectory prediction methods have achieved remarkable performance on public benchmarks,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Luyao Ye , Zikang Zhou , Jianping Wang

Transportability, the ability to maintain performance across populations, is a desirable property of markers of clinical outcomes. However, empirical findings indicate that markers often exhibit varying performances across populations. For…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-01 Mohsen Sadatsafavi , Gavin Pereira , Wenjia Chen

Real-world data distributions often shift continuously across multiple latent factors such as time, geography, and socioeconomic contexts. However, existing domain generalization approaches typically treat domains as discrete or as evolving…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-30 Zekun Cai , Yiheng Yao , Guangji Bai , Renhe Jiang , Xuan Song , Ryosuke Shibasaki , Liang Zhao

The generalizability of empirical findings to new environments, settings or populations, often called "external validity," is essential in most scientific explorations. This paper treats a particular problem of generalizability, called…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-06 Judea Pearl , Elias Bareinboim

Domain adaptation arises as an important problem in statistical learning theory when the data-generating processes differ between training and test samples, respectively called source and target domains. Recent theoretical advances show…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-25 Mourad El Hamri , Younès Bennani , Issam Falih

Existing domain generalization aims to learn a generalizable model to perform well even on unseen domains. For many real-world machine learning applications, the data distribution often shifts gradually along domain indices. For example, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Qiuhao Zeng , Wei Wang , Fan Zhou , Charles Ling , Boyu Wang