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 ()}, 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 over the full-dataset baseline, by accuracy at maximum in batchwise and at minimum in foldwise benchmarks.
Cite
@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}
}