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The performance of neural network models deteriorates due to their unreliable behavior on non-robust features of corrupted samples. Owing to their opaque nature, rectifying models to address this problem often necessitates arduous data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Peiyu Yang , Naveed Akhtar , Jiantong Jiang , Ajmal Mian

Data attribution methods aim to answer useful counterfactual questions like "what would a ML model's prediction be if it were trained on a different dataset?" However, estimation of data attribution models through techniques like empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ari Karchmer , Martin Pawelczyk , Seth Neel

Data attribution aims to explain model predictions by estimating how they would change if certain training points were removed, and is used in a wide range of applications, from interpretability and credit assignment to unlearning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ittai Rubinstein , Samuel B. Hopkins

Training data attribution (TDA) techniques find influential training data for the model's prediction on the test data of interest. They approximate the impact of down- or up-weighting a particular training sample. While conceptually useful,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Elisa Nguyen , Minjoon Seo , Seong Joon Oh

Training autonomous agents with sparse rewards is a long-standing problem in online reinforcement learning (RL), due to low data efficiency. Prior work overcomes this challenge by extracting useful knowledge from offline data, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Qianlan Yang , Yu-Xiong Wang

The success of the machine learning field has reliably depended on training on large datasets. While effective, this trend comes at an extraordinary cost. This is due to two deeply intertwined factors: the size of models and the size of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Shriram M Sathiyanarayanan , Xinyue Hao , Shihao Hou , Yang Lu , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Anurag Arnab , Shreyank N Gowda

Attribution explanation is a typical approach for explaining deep neural networks (DNNs), inferring an importance or contribution score for each input variable to the final output. In recent years, numerous attribution methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Huiqi Deng , Hongbin Pei , Quanshi Zhang , Mengnan Du

We propose probe-based data attribution, a method that traces behavioral changes in post-trained language models to responsible training datapoints. By computing activation-difference vectors for both test prompts and preference pairs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Frank Xiao , Santiago Aranguri

Data attribution methods, which quantify the influence of individual training data points on a machine learning model, have gained increasing popularity in data-centric applications in modern AI. Despite a recent surge of new methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Weiyi Wang , Junwei Deng , Yuzheng Hu , Shiyuan Zhang , Xirui Jiang , Runting Zhang , Han Zhao , Jiaqi W. Ma

Data attribution methods play a crucial role in understanding machine learning models, providing insight into which training data points are most responsible for model outputs during deployment. However, current state-of-the-art approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Vasu Singla , Pedro Sandoval-Segura , Micah Goldblum , Jonas Geiping , Tom Goldstein

Data attribution methods quantify the influence of training data on model outputs and are becoming increasingly relevant for a wide range of LLM research and applications, including dataset curation, model interpretability, data valuation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Cathy Jiao , Yijun Pan , Emily Xiao , Daisy Sheng , Niket Jain , Hanzhang Zhao , Ishita Dasgupta , Jiaqi W. Ma , Chenyan Xiong

The inherently diverse and uncertain nature of trajectories presents a formidable challenge in accurately modeling them. Motion prediction systems must effectively learn spatial and temporal information from the past to forecast the future…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Pranav Singh Chib , Pravendra Singh

Safely deploying machine learning models to the real world is often a challenging process. Models trained with data obtained from a specific geographic location tend to fail when queried with data obtained elsewhere, agents trained in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Marco Federici , Ryota Tomioka , Patrick Forré

Overfitting is a common problem in machine learning, which means the model too closely fits the training data while performing poorly in the test data. Among various methods of coping with overfitting, dropout is one of the representative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Yangkun Li , Weizhi Ma , Chong Chen , Min Zhang , Yiqun Liu , Shaoping Ma , Yuekui Yang

Attribution methods provide an insight into the decision-making process of machine learning models, especially deep neural networks, by assigning contribution scores to each individual feature. However, the attribution problem has not been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Huiqi Deng , Na Zou , Mengnan Du , Weifu Chen , Guocan Feng , Xia Hu

Training data attribution (TDA) methods aim to attribute model outputs back to specific training examples, and the application of these methods to large language model (LLM) outputs could significantly advance model transparency and data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Tyler A. Chang , Dheeraj Rajagopal , Tolga Bolukbasi , Lucas Dixon , Ian Tenney

Diffusion models have shown strong competitiveness in offline reinforcement learning tasks by formulating decision-making as sequential generation. However, the practicality of these methods is limited due to the lengthy inference processes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Renming Huang , Yunqiang Pei , Guoqing Wang , Yangming Zhang , Yang Yang , Peng Wang , Hengtao Shen

Trajectory optimization under uncertainty underpins a wide range of applications in robotics. However, existing methods are limited in terms of reasoning about sources of epistemic and aleatoric uncertainty, space and time correlations,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Thomas Lew , Riccardo Bonalli , Marco Pavone

Test-time adaptation harnesses test inputs to improve the accuracy of a model trained on source data when tested on shifted target data. Existing methods update the source model by (re-)training on each target domain. While effective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jin Gao , Jialing Zhang , Xihui Liu , Trevor Darrell , Evan Shelhamer , Dequan Wang

Trajectory datasets of road users have become more important in the last years for safety validation of highly automated vehicles. Several naturalistic trajectory datasets with each more than 10.000 tracks were released and others will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Christoph Glasmacher , Robert Krajewski , Lutz Eckstein