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Deep learning models have become an increasingly preferred option for biometric recognition systems, such as speaker recognition. SincNet, a deep neural network architecture, gained popularity in speaker recognition tasks due to its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Labib Chowdhury , Mustafa Kamal , Najia Hasan , Nabeel Mohammed

Biases in the dataset often enable the model to achieve high performance on in-distribution data, while poorly performing on out-of-distribution data. To mitigate the detrimental effect of the bias on the networks, previous works have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Eojin Jeon , Mingyu Lee , Juhyeong Park , Yeachan Kim , Wing-Lam Mok , SangKeun Lee

Shortcut learning, i.e., a model's reliance on undesired features not directly relevant to the task, is a major challenge that severely limits the applications of machine learning algorithms, particularly when deploying them to assist in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Lukas Kuhn , Sari Sadiya , Jorg Schlotterer , Florian Buettner , Christin Seifert , Gemma Roig

Current trends in audio anti-spoofing detection research strive to improve models' ability to generalize across unseen attacks by learning to identify a variety of spoofing artifacts. This emphasis has primarily focused on the spoof class.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Hye-jin Shim , Md Sahidullah , Jee-weon Jung , Shinji Watanabe , Tomi Kinnunen

There has been increased interest in devising learning techniques that combine unlabeled data with labeled data ? i.e. semi-supervised learning. However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has been performed across various techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-09-12 N. V. Chawla , Grigoris Karakoulas

Counterfactual Explanations are becoming a de-facto standard in post-hoc interpretable machine learning. For a given classifier and an instance classified in an undesired class, its counterfactual explanation corresponds to small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Veronica Piccialli , Dolores Romero Morales , Cecilia Salvatore

Contemporary learning models for computer vision are typically trained on very large (benchmark) datasets with millions of samples. These may, however, contain biases, artifacts, or errors that have gone unnoticed and are exploitable by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Christopher J. Anders , Leander Weber , David Neumann , Wojciech Samek , Klaus-Robert Müller , Sebastian Lapuschkin

Deep neural networks are efficient at learning the data distribution if it is sufficiently sampled. However, they can be strongly biased by non-relevant factors implicitly incorporated in the training data. These include operational biases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Kirill Sirotkin , Pablo Carballeira , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo

Prediction systems are successfully deployed in applications ranging from disease diagnosis, to predicting credit worthiness, to image recognition. Even when the overall accuracy is high, these systems may exhibit systematic biases that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Michael P. Kim , Amirata Ghorbani , James Zou

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, a type of adversarial attack that poisons the training data to manipulate the behavior of models trained on such data. Clean-label attacks are a more stealthy form of backdoor attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Quang H. Nguyen , Nguyen Ngoc-Hieu , The-Anh Ta , Thanh Nguyen-Tang , Kok-Seng Wong , Hoang Thanh-Tung , Khoa D. Doan

Sample selection is a prevalent method in learning with noisy labels, where small-loss data are typically considered as correctly labeled data. However, this method may not effectively identify clean hard examples with large losses, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Suqin Yuan , Lei Feng , Tongliang Liu

The binary classification problem has a situation where only biased data are observed in one of the classes. In this paper, we propose a new method to approach the positive and biased negative (PbN) classification problem, which is a weakly…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-28 Shotaro Watanabe , Hidetoshi Matsui

Machine learning systems are often trained using data collected from historical decisions. If past decisions were biased, then automated systems that learn from historical data will also be biased. We propose a black-box approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Sahil Verma , Michael Ernst , Rene Just

The 'Clever Hans' effect occurs when the learned model produces correct predictions based on the 'wrong' features. This effect which undermines the generalization capability of an ML model and goes undetected by standard validation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Jacob Kauffmann , Lukas Ruff , Grégoire Montavon , Klaus-Robert Müller

Deep learning models can identify racial identity with high accuracy from chest X-ray (CXR) recordings. Thus, there is widespread concern about the potential for racial shortcut learning, where a model inadvertently learns to systematically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Dishantkumar Sutariya , Eike Petersen

Performance of trained neural network (NN) models, in terms of testing accuracy, has improved remarkably over the past several years, especially with the advent of deep learning. However, even the most accurate NNs can be biased toward a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Mahum Naseer , Bharath Srinivas Prabakaran , Osman Hasan , Muhammad Shafique

With the advent of wearable recorders, scientists are increasingly turning to automated methods of analysis of audio and video data in order to measure children's experience, behavior, and outcomes, with a sizable literature employing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Lucas Gautheron , Evan Kidd , Anton Malko , Marvin Lavechin , Alejandrina Cristia

The pervasive application of algorithmic decision-making is raising concerns on the risk of unintended bias in AI systems deployed in critical settings such as healthcare. The detection and mitigation of biased models is a very delicate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Cecilia Panigutti , Alan Perotti , Andrè Panisson , Paolo Bajardi , Dino Pedreschi

Deep neural networks often struggle to learn robust representations in the presence of dataset biases, leading to suboptimal generalization on unbiased datasets. This limitation arises because the models heavily depend on peripheral and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Carlo Alberto Barbano , Enzo Tartaglione , Marco Grangetto

Detecting biases in artificial intelligence has become difficult because of the impenetrable nature of deep learning. The central difficulty is in relating unobservable phenomena deep inside models with observable, outside quantities that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Lizhen Liang , Daniel E. Acuna