Spurious correlations in machine learning: A survey

W Ye, G Zheng, X Cao, Y Ma, A Zhang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2402.12715, 2024 - arxiv.org
Machine learning systems are known to be sensitive to spurious correlations between non-
essential features of the inputs (eg, background, texture, and secondary objects) and the …

Seeing is not believing: Robust reinforcement learning against spurious correlation

W Ding, L Shi, Y Chi, D Zhao - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Robustness has been extensively studied in reinforcement learning (RL) to handle various
forms of uncertainty such as random perturbations, rare events, and malicious attacks. In this …

Understanding the (extra-) ordinary: Validating deep model decisions with prototypical concept-based explanations

M Dreyer, R Achtibat, W Samek… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Ensuring both transparency and safety is critical when deploying Deep Neural Networks
(DNNs) in high-risk applications such as medicine. The field of explainable AI (XAI) has …

Brave the wind and the waves: Discovering robust and generalizable graph lottery tickets

K Wang, Y Liang, X Li, G Li, B Ghanem… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The training and inference of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are costly when scaling up to
large-scale graphs. Graph Lottery Ticket (GLT) has presented the first attempt to accelerate …

Explainable image classification: The journey so far and the road ahead

V Kamakshi, NC Krishnan - AI, 2023 - mdpi.com
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has emerged as a crucial research area to address
the interpretability challenges posed by complex machine learning models. In this survey …

Incremental residual concept bottleneck models

C Shang, S Zhou, H Zhang, X Ni… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) map the black-box visual representations
extracted by deep neural networks onto a set of interpretable concepts and use the concepts …

Projection regret: Reducing background bias for novelty detection via diffusion models

S Choi, H Lee, H Lee, M Lee - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Novelty detection is a fundamental task of machine learning which aims to detect abnormal
(ie out-of-distribution (OOD)) samples. Since diffusion models have recently emerged as the …

Foundation model-oriented robustness: Robust image model evaluation with pretrained models

P Zhang, H Liu, C Li, X **e, S Kim, H Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Machine learning has demonstrated remarkable performance over finite datasets, yet
whether the scores over the fixed benchmarks can sufficiently indicate the model's …

Mm-spubench: Towards better understanding of spurious biases in multimodal llms

W Ye, G Zheng, Y Ma, X Cao, B Lai, JM Rehg… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Spurious bias, a tendency to use spurious correlations between non-essential input
attributes and target variables for predictions, has revealed a severe robustness pitfall in …

Decompose-and-Compose: A Compositional Approach to Mitigating Spurious Correlation

FH Noohdani, P Hosseini, AY Parast… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract While standard Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) training is proven effective for
image classification on in-distribution data it fails to perform well on out-of-distribution …