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Deep learning models can perform well in complex medical imaging classification tasks, even when basing their conclusions on spurious correlations (i.e. confounders), should they be prevalent in the training dataset, rather than on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Amar Kumar , Nima Fathi , Raghav Mehta , Brennan Nichyporuk , Jean-Pierre R. Falet , Sotirios Tsaftaris , Tal Arbel

The development of larger models for medical image analysis has led to increased performance. However, it also affected our ability to explain and validate model decisions. Models can use non-relevant parts of images, also called spurious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Théo Sourget , Michelle Hestbek-Møller , Amelia Jiménez-Sánchez , Jack Junchi Xu , Veronika Cheplygina

We present a simple but effective method to measure and mitigate model biases caused by reliance on spurious cues. Instead of requiring costly changes to one's data or model training, our method better utilizes the data one already has by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Mazda Moayeri , Wenxiao Wang , Sahil Singla , Soheil Feizi

In image segmentation, there is often more than one plausible solution for a given input. In medical imaging, for example, experts will often disagree about the exact location of object boundaries. Estimating this inherent uncertainty and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Miguel Monteiro , Loïc Le Folgoc , Daniel Coelho de Castro , Nick Pawlowski , Bernardo Marques , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Mark van der Wilk , Ben Glocker

Transformers with powerful global relation modeling abilities have been introduced to fundamental computer vision tasks recently. As a typical example, the Vision Transformer (ViT) directly applies a pure transformer architecture on image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Xiaoyu Yue , Shuyang Sun , Zhanghui Kuang , Meng Wei , Philip Torr , Wayne Zhang , Dahua Lin

Spurious correlations are a major source of errors for machine learning models, in particular when aiming for group-level fairness. It has been recently shown that a powerful approach to combat spurious correlations is to re-train the last…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Humza Wajid Hameed , Geraldin Nanfack , Eugene Belilovsky

Deep neural networks excel at comprehending complex visual signals, delivering on par or even superior performance to that of human experts. However, ad-hoc visual explanations of model decisions often reveal an alarming level of reliance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Dong Wang , Yuewei Yang , Chenyang Tao , Zhe Gan , Liqun Chen , Fanjie Kong , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

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

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 learning has revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence. Based on the statistical correlations uncovered by deep learning-based methods, computer vision has contributed to tremendous growth in areas like autonomous driving and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Kexuan Zhang , Qiyu Sun , Chaoqiang Zhao , Yang Tang

In NLP, recent work has seen increased focus on spurious correlations between various features and labels in training data, and how these influence model behavior. However, the presence and effect of such correlations are typically examined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sofia Serrano , Jesse Dodge , Noah A. Smith

Anomaly localization in images -- identifying regions that deviate from normal patterns -- is vital in applications such as medical diagnosis and industrial inspection. A recent trend is the use of image generation models in anomaly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-28 Teruyuki Katsuoka , Tomohiro Shiraishi , Daiki Miwa , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Ichiro Takeuchi

Recent research has revealed that deep neural networks often take dataset biases as a shortcut to make decisions rather than understand tasks, leading to failures in real-world applications. In this study, we focus on the spurious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Yanrui Du , Jing Yan , Yan Chen , Jing Liu , Sendong Zhao , Qiaoqiao She , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Bing Qin

Deep neural networks are often considered opaque systems, prompting the need for explainability methods to improve trust and accountability. Existing approaches typically attribute test-time predictions either to input features (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Aziz Bacha , Thomas George

Shortcut learning, where machine learning models exploit spurious correlations in data instead of capturing meaningful features, poses a significant challenge to building robust and generalizable models. This phenomenon is prevalent across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Pirzada Suhail , Vrinda Goel , Amit Sethi

Deep neural networks often learn and rely on spurious correlations, i.e., superficial associations between non-causal features and the targets. For instance, an image classifier may identify camels based on the desert backgrounds. While it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenqian Ye , Guangtao Zheng , Aidong Zhang

Understanding the mechanisms underlying deep neural networks remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning and computer vision. One promising, yet only preliminarily explored approach, is feature inversion, which attempts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jan Rathjens , Shirin Reyhanian , David Kappel , Laurenz Wiskott

Deep neural networks often rely on spurious correlations to make predictions, which hinders generalization beyond training environments. For instance, models that associate cats with bed backgrounds can fail to predict the existence of cats…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shirley Wu , Mert Yuksekgonul , Linjun Zhang , James Zou

When it comes to classifying child sexual abuse images, managing similar inter-class correlations and diverse intra-class correlations poses a significant challenge. Vision transformer models, unlike conventional deep convolutional network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hanxian He , Campbell Wilson , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Janis Dalins

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