Towards a theoretical framework of out-of-distribution generalization

H Ye, C **e, T Cai, R Li, Z Li… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) data is one of the central problems in modern
machine learning. Recently, there is a surge of attempts to propose algorithms that mainly …

A review of causality for learning algorithms in medical image analysis

A Vlontzos, D Rueckert, B Kainz - arxiv preprint arxiv:2206.05498, 2022 - arxiv.org
Medical image analysis is a vibrant research area that offers doctors and medical
practitioners invaluable insight and the ability to accurately diagnose and monitor disease …

Out-of-distribution prediction with invariant risk minimization: The limitation and an effective fix

R Guo, P Zhang, H Liu, E Kiciman - arxiv preprint arxiv:2101.07732, 2021 - arxiv.org
This work considers the out-of-distribution (OOD) prediction problem where (1)~ the training
data are from multiple domains and (2)~ the test domain is unseen in the training. DNNs fail …

Understanding instance-based interpretability of variational auto-encoders

Z Kong, K Chaudhuri - Advances in Neural Information …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Instance-based interpretation methods have been widely studied for supervised learning
methods as they help explain how black box neural networks predict. However, instance …

When Graph Neural Network Meets Causality: Opportunities, Methodologies and An Outlook

W Jiang, H Liu, H **ong - arxiv preprint arxiv:2312.12477, 2023 - arxiv.org
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful representation learning tools for
capturing complex dependencies within diverse graph-structured data. Despite their …

Label Smoothing Improves Machine Unlearning

Z Di, Z Zhu, J Jia, J Liu, Z Takhirov, B Jiang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The objective of machine unlearning (MU) is to eliminate previously learned data from a
model. However, it is challenging to strike a balance between computation cost and …

Evaluating the impact of local differential privacy on utility loss via influence functions

AN Carey, MH Van, X Wu - 2024 International Joint Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
How to properly set the privacy parameter in differential privacy has been an open question
in DP research since it was first proposed in 2006. In this work, we demonstrate the ability of …

Revisit, Extend, and Enhance Hessian-Free Influence Functions

Z Yang, H Yue, J Chen, H Liu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.17490, 2024 - arxiv.org
Influence functions serve as crucial tools for assessing sample influence in model
interpretation, subset training set selection, noisy label detection, and more. By employing …

Causal reasoning in medical imaging

A Vlontzos, C Müller, B Kainz - Trustworthy AI in Medical Imaging, 2025 - Elsevier
Medical image analysis is a vibrant research area that offers doctors and medical
practitioners valuable insight and the ability to accurately diagnose and monitor disease …

Curriculum gDRO: Improving Lung Malignancy Classification through Robust Curriculum Task Learning

A Sivakumar, Y Wang, R Tchoua… - 2023 IEEE 36th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning models used in Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems are often trained
with Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) loss. These models often achieve high overall …