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  1. BiasFlow: Geometric Monitoring and Backbone Regularization for Spurious Feature Reliance

    Oct 5, 2026Haojin Deng, Zhiping Lin, Yimin YangDebiased MLSpurious Correlation Robustness

    Vector Institute, Toronto, Canada

  2. Optimal Transport Reweighting for Robust Learning under Spurious Correlations and Label Noise

    Oct 1, 2026Sung Ho Jo, Seonghwi Kim, Wonsang Yun +1Distribution Shift RobustnessSpurious Correlation Robustness

    Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

  3. Towards Fast and Disentangled Counterfactuals for Visual Foundation Models

    Oct 1, 2026Sidney Bender, Benedikt Kunz, Ahmed Zeid +3Disentangled Representation LearningCounterfactual Explanations

    Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD), Berlin, Germany · Machine Learning Group, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  4. When Masking Helps or Hurts Robustness in Compressed CLIP: A Pre-Deployment Diagnostic

    Sep 30, 2026Muhammad Zawish, Steven DavyVLM RobustnessEfficient VLM Inference

    Technological University Dublin, Ireland

  5. Whitening Improves Robustness to Spurious Correlations in Linear Probes

    Sep 30, 2026Floris Holstege, Bram Wouters, Noud van Giersbergen +1Linear ProbingSpurious Correlation Robustness

    University of Amsterdam, Department of Quantitative Economics · Tinbergen Institute

  6. Do Center Biases Propagate? Robustness of Pathology Foundation Models in Whole-Slide Image Classification

    Sep 23, 2026Ilán Carretero, Pablo Meseguer, Rocío del Amor +1Pathology Foundation ModelsSpurious Correlation Robustness

    CVBLab, HumanTech, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain · Artikode Intelligence S.L., Valencia, Spain

  7. Counterfactual Marginalisation: Framework for Evaluating Robustness to Nuisance Variables

    Sep 12, 2026Yasin Ibrahim, Hermione Warr, Robin J. Evans +1Counterfactual EvaluationClassification

    Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  8. "World Knowledge" in the Weights: Reading Concept Circuits of Vision Transformers

    Sep 8, 2026Yanlin Chen, Tang Li, Xi PengTransformer InterpretabilityVision Foundation Models

    Department of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Delaware, USA · Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, USA

  9. SAGE: Subpopulation-Aware Generative Enhancement for Mitigating Spurious Correlations

    Sep 1, 2026Yiming Luo, Rongqiang Zhao, Jie LiuDistribution Shift RobustnessSynthetic Data Augmentation

    1Harbin Institute of Technology · 2State Key Laboratory of Smart Farm Technologies and Systems

  10. ProME: Prototype-Margin Environments with Repair-Aware Selection for Group-Robust Learning

    Aug 13, 2026Qianqian Wang, Yunshan Li, Dawei Huang +2Distribution Shift RobustnessSpurious Correlation Robustness

    aShenzhen Key Laboratory of Safety and Security for Next Generation of Industrial Internet, Shenzhen, China · bDepartment of Statistics and Data Science, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

  11. UNMASK: Discovering and Causally Verifying Spurious Shortcuts in Text Classifiers

    Aug 10, 2026Chidaksh Ravuru, Shashank SrivastavaClassificationSpurious Correlation Robustness

    Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  12. Perturbation Sensitivity at Convergence: A Simple Signal for Identifying Spuriously Correlated Samples

    Aug 5, 2026Nilesh KumarTraining Data SelectionClassification

  13. Entangled by Design: Spurious Intra-Variable Signal Routing in Tabular In-Context Learners

    Jul 28, 2026Athanasios Vlontzos, Giorgos Papanastasiou, Bernhard Kainz +1Spurious Correlation RobustnessTabular ICL

    Hologen AI London, UK · Mathematics Research Centre Academy of Athens Athens, GR · FAU Erlangen Nuremberg Imperial College London Erlangen, DE & London, UK +1

  14. Causal-Adversarial Probing of Clinical Covariates for Prostate MRI Grading

    Jul 16, 2026Yipei Wang, Shiqi Huang, Wen Yan +6Causal Representation LearningMedical Image Classification

    UCL Hawkes Institute, University College London, London, UK · Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London, UK · Department of Urology, University College London Hospital, London, UK +4

  15. When Data Imbalance Helps: Robust Generalization Through Shortcut Saturation

    Jul 11, 2026Cheng-Ting Chou, Duc Binh HoangClass-Imbalanced LearningTransformer

    University of California, Los Angeles

  16. Breaking Spurious Correlations via Generative Randomization and Cross-Variant Self-Supervised Learning

    Jul 7, 2026Suraj Yadav, Anjaneya Sharma, Siddharth YadavContrastive LearningOOD Generalization

    Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi

  17. Association Restoration Test: Revealing Restorable Shortcuts after Unlearning

    Jul 7, 2026Amy Lu, Changxiu JiSpurious Correlation RobustnessShortcut Learning

    Department of Computer Science, Stanford University

  18. Adversarial LassoNet: Robust Feature Selection via Stability-Driven Sparse Learning

    Jul 4, 2026Zhen Huang, Peicheng Xu, Junbiao Pang +1Adversarial TrainingOOD Generalization

    Beijing University of Technology · The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine

  19. Automated Background Swapping for Robustness against Spurious Backgrounds

    Jun 30, 2026Cesar Roder, Kajetan SchweighoferSynthetic Data AugmentationData Augmentation

    Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria · Cognizant AI Lab, USA ∗ · ∗Work partly done while at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

  20. Dual-Branch Cross-Projection Debiasing through Diffusion-based Disentanglement

    Jun 23, 2026Xiangqian Zhao, Xinyang Jiang, Zhipeng Xu +5Disentangled Representation LearningDebiased ML

    Xidian University · Shaanxi, China · Microsoft Research Asia +1

  21. Discovering Latent Groups for Robust Classification

    Jun 22, 2026Ankur Garg, Ulrich Aïvodji, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou +1Interpretable MLNeural Network Robustness

  22. Is Spurious Correlation Removal Always Learnable?

    Jun 11, 2026Yibo Zhou, Bo Li, Hai-Miao Hu +3Spurious Correlation RobustnessInvariant Representation Learning

    Beijing Key Laboratory of Digital Media, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Hangzhou Innovation Institute of Beihang University, Hangzhou 310051, China +1

  23. Adaptive Causal Alignment for High-Confidence Adversarial Training

    Jun 2, 2026Zhiming Luo, Kejia Zhang, Yingxin Lai +3Adversarial TrainingAdversarial Robustness

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China · Department of Computer Science, Emory University, GA, USA · College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

  24. Mitigating Spurious Correlations with Memorization-Guided Dataset De-Biasing

    Jun 1, 2026Arda Fazla, Abolfazl HashemiDebiased MLTraining Data Selection

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.

  25. Shortcut to Nowhere: Demystifying Deep Spurious Regression

    Jun 1, 2026Guanrong Xu, Jessica Li, Hao Wang +1OOD GeneralizationSpurious Correlation Robustness

    University of California, Los Angeles · Rutgers University

  26. Shortcuts in the Tail: Debiasing via Post-Hoc Spectral Compression of Fine-Tuning Updates

    May 29, 2026Edward Sun, Dmitrii TroitskiiLLM Fine-TuningAlgorithmic Fairness

    Department of Computer Science, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA · Independent.

  27. Bias Leaves a Gradient Trail: Label-Free Bias Identification via Gradient Probes on Concept Decompositions

    May 27, 2026Thomas Vitry, Kieran Edgeworth, Stefan Wermter +1Debiased MLSpurious Correlation Robustness

    University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · Ecole Normale Superieure de Rennes, Rennes, France

  28. Unsupervised Identification and Removal of Spurious Correlations During Fine-Tuning

    May 26, 2026Ciarán M. Gilligan-Lee, Joseph Egan, Yuchen Zhu +1LLM Fine-TuningPolitical Bias in Language Models

    University College London · University College London† · Spotify

  29. Cumulative Meta-Learning from Active Learning Queries for Robustness to Spurious Correlations

    May 20, 2026Kin Whye Chew, Jingxian WangMeta-LearningActive Learning

    Department of Computer Science National University of Singapore Singapore, S119077

  30. Deep Attention Reweighting: Post-Hoc Attention-Based Feature Aggregation in CNNs for Disentangling Core and Spurious Features under Spurious Correlations

    May 20, 2026Kin Whye Chew, Jingxian WangDisentangled Representation LearningSpurious Correlation Robustness

    National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583, Singapore