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Causal Covariate Shift Correction using Fisher information penalty

Machine Learning 2025-02-25 v1

Abstract

Evolving feature densities across batches of training data bias cross-validation, making model selection and assessment unreliable (\cite{sugiyama2012machine}). This work takes a distributed density estimation angle to the training setting where data are temporally distributed. \textit{Causal Covariate Shift Correction (C3C^{3})}, accumulates knowledge about the data density of a training batch using Fisher Information, and using it to penalize the loss in all subsequent batches. The penalty improves accuracy by 12.9%12.9\% over the full-dataset baseline, by 20.3%20.3\% accuracy at maximum in batchwise and 5.9%5.9\% at minimum in foldwise benchmarks.

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@article{arxiv.2502.15756,
  title  = {Causal Covariate Shift Correction using Fisher information penalty},
  author = {Behraj Khan and Behroz Mirza and Tahir Syed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.15756},
  year   = {2025}
}
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