当获取新数据或开发新的架构时，更新机器学习模型。这些更新通常会增加模型性能，但可能会引入向后兼容性错误，其中单个用户或用户组在更新的模型上看到其性能受到不利影响。当培训数据集没有准确反映整体人口人口统计数据时，也可以出现这个问题，其中一些群体具有整体参与数据收集过程，构成了重大的公平问题。我们分析了分配稳健性和最低限度公平的思想如何有助于在这种情况下向后兼容性，并提出两种方法直接解决此问题。我们的理论分析由CIFAR-10，Celeba和Waterbirds的实验结果支持，三个标准图像分类数据集。github.com/natalialmg/groupbc可用的代码

虽然神经网络在平均病例的性能方面对分类任务的成功显着，但它们通常无法在某些数据组上表现良好。这样的组信息可能是昂贵的;因此，即使在培训数据不可用的组标签不可用，较稳健性和公平的最新作品也提出了改善最差组性能的方法。然而，这些方法通常在培训时间使用集团信息的表现不佳。在这项工作中，我们假设没有组标签的较大数据集一起访问少量组标签。我们提出了一个简单的两步框架，利用这个部分组信息来提高最差组性能：训练模型以预测训练数据的丢失组标签，然后在强大的优化目标中使用这些预测的组标签。从理论上讲，我们在最差的组性能方面为我们的方法提供泛化界限，展示了泛化误差如何相对于培训点总数和具有组标签的培训点的数量。凭经验，我们的方法优于不使用群组信息的基线表达，即使只有1-33％的积分都有组标签。我们提供消融研究，以支持我们框架的稳健性和可扩展性。

Standard training via empirical risk minimization (ERM) can produce models that achieve high accuracy on average but low accuracy on certain groups, especially in the presence of spurious correlations between the input and label. Prior approaches that achieve high worst-group accuracy, like group distributionally robust optimization (group DRO) require expensive group annotations for each training point, whereas approaches that do not use such group annotations typically achieve unsatisfactory worst-group accuracy. In this paper, we propose a simple two-stage approach, JTT, that first trains a standard ERM model for several epochs, and then trains a second model that upweights the training examples that the first model misclassified. Intuitively, this upweights examples from groups on which standard ERM models perform poorly, leading to improved worst-group performance. Averaged over four image classification and natural language processing tasks with spurious correlations, JTT closes 75% of the gap in worst-group accuracy between standard ERM and group DRO, while only requiring group annotations on a small validation set in order to tune hyperparameters.

Overparameterized neural networks can be highly accurate on average on an i.i.d.test set yet consistently fail on atypical groups of the data (e.g., by learning spurious correlations that hold on average but not in such groups). Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) allows us to learn models that instead minimize the worst-case training loss over a set of pre-defined groups. However, we find that naively applying group DRO to overparameterized neural networks fails: these models can perfectly fit the training data, and any model with vanishing average training loss also already has vanishing worst-case training loss. Instead, the poor worst-case performance arises from poor generalization on some groups. By coupling group DRO models with increased regularization-a stronger-than-typical 2 penalty or early stopping-we achieve substantially higher worst-group accuracies, with 10-40 percentage point improvements on a natural language inference task and two image tasks, while maintaining high average accuracies. Our results suggest that regularization is important for worst-group generalization in the overparameterized regime, even if it is not needed for average generalization. Finally, we introduce a stochastic optimization algorithm, with convergence guarantees, to efficiently train group DRO models.

许多现代化的机器学习任务需要具有高尾部性能的模型，即在数据集中最严格的样本上的高性能。该问题已广泛研究了算法公平，类别不平衡和风险敏感决策等领域。一种最大化模型的尾部性能的流行方法是最大限度地减少CVAR（风险条件值）损失，这计算了损失尾部的平均风险。然而，对于通过零一次损耗评估模型的分类任务，我们表明，如果分类器是确定性的，那么平均零一个损耗的最小值也会最小化CVAR零一次损耗，表明CVAR损耗最小化是最小化的没有额外的假设没有帮助。我们通过最大限度地减少随机分类器的CVAR损失来规避这种负面结果，其中平均零一个损耗和CVAR零一次损耗的最小化器不再相同，因此最小化后者可能导致更好的尾部性能。为了学习这样的随机分类器，我们提出了增强的CVAR分类框架，该框架通过CVAR与称为LPBoost的经典升压算法之间的直接关系而激励。基于此框架，我们设计了一种称为$ \ alpha $ -adalpboost的算法。我们在四个基准数据集中凭经验评估了我们所提出的算法，并显示它比确定性模型训练方法更高的尾部性能。

The ability to quickly and accurately identify covariate shift at test time is a critical and often overlooked component of safe machine learning systems deployed in high-risk domains. While methods exist for detecting when predictions should not be made on out-of-distribution test examples, identifying distributional level differences between training and test time can help determine when a model should be removed from the deployment setting and retrained. In this work, we define harmful covariate shift (HCS) as a change in distribution that may weaken the generalization of a predictive model. To detect HCS, we use the discordance between an ensemble of classifiers trained to agree on training data and disagree on test data. We derive a loss function for training this ensemble and show that the disagreement rate and entropy represent powerful discriminative statistics for HCS. Empirically, we demonstrate the ability of our method to detect harmful covariate shift with statistical certainty on a variety of high-dimensional datasets. Across numerous domains and modalities, we show state-of-the-art performance compared to existing methods, particularly when the number of observed test samples is small.

在许多现实世界中的机器学习应用中，亚种群的转移存在着极大地存在，指的是包含相同亚种群组的培训和测试分布，但在亚种群频率中有所不同。重要性重新加权是通过对训练数据集中每个样本施加恒定或自适应抽样权重来处理亚种群转移问题的正常方法。但是，最近的一些研究已经认识到，这些方法中的大多数无法改善性能，而不是经验风险最小化，尤其是当应用于过度参数化的神经网络时。在这项工作中，我们提出了一个简单而实用的框架，称为“不确定性感知混合”（UMIX），以根据样品不确定性重新加权“混合”样品来减轻过度参数化模型中的过度拟合问题。基于训练 - 注射器的不确定性估计为每个样品的拟议UMIX配备，以灵活地表征亚群分布。我们还提供有见地的理论分析，以验证UMIX是否在先前的工作中实现了更好的概括界限。此外，我们在广泛的任务上进行了广泛的经验研究，以验证我们方法的有效性，既有定性和定量。

Models trained via empirical risk minimization (ERM) are known to rely on spurious correlations between labels and task-independent input features, resulting in poor generalization to distributional shifts. Group distributionally robust optimization (G-DRO) can alleviate this problem by minimizing the worst-case loss over a set of pre-defined groups over training data. G-DRO successfully improves performance of the worst-group, where the correlation does not hold. However, G-DRO assumes that the spurious correlations and associated worst groups are known in advance, making it challenging to apply it to new tasks with potentially multiple unknown spurious correlations. We propose AGRO -- Adversarial Group discovery for Distributionally Robust Optimization -- an end-to-end approach that jointly identifies error-prone groups and improves accuracy on them. AGRO equips G-DRO with an adversarial slicing model to find a group assignment for training examples which maximizes worst-case loss over the discovered groups. On the WILDS benchmark, AGRO results in 8% higher model performance on average on known worst-groups, compared to prior group discovery approaches used with G-DRO. AGRO also improves out-of-distribution performance on SST2, QQP, and MS-COCO -- datasets where potential spurious correlations are as yet uncharacterized. Human evaluation of ARGO groups shows that they contain well-defined, yet previously unstudied spurious correlations that lead to model errors.

学习不变表示是在数据集中虚假相关驱动的机器学习模型时的重要要求。这些杂散相关性，在输入样本和目标标签之间，错误地指导了神经网络预测，导致某些组的性能差，尤其是少数群体。针对这些虚假相关性的强大培训需要每个样本的组成员资格。这种要求在少数群体或稀有群体的数据标签努力的情况下是显着费力的，或者包括数据集的个人选择隐藏敏感信息的情况。另一方面，存在这种数据收集的存在力度导致包含部分标记的组信息的数据集。最近的作品解决了完全无监督的场景，没有用于组的标签。因此，我们的目标是通过解决更现实的设置来填补文献中的缺失差距，这可以在培训期间利用部分可用的敏感或群体信息。首先，我们构造一个约束集并导出组分配所属的高概率绑定到该集合。其次，我们提出了一种从约束集中优化了优化最严格的组分配的算法。通过对图像和表格数据集的实验，我们显示少数集团的性能的改进，同时在跨组中保持整体汇总精度。

机器学习算法通常假设培训和测试示例是从相同的分布中汲取的。然而，分发转移是现实世界应用中的常见问题，并且可以在测试时间造成模型急剧执行。在本文中，我们特别考虑域移位和亚泊素班次的问题（例如，不平衡数据）。虽然先前的作品通常会寻求明确地将模型的内部表示和预测器进行明确，以成为域不变的，但我们旨在规范整个功能而不限制模型的内部表示。这导致了一种简单的基于混合技术，它通过名为LISA的选择性增强来学习不变函数。 Lisa选择性地用相同的标签而单独地插值样本，但不同的域或具有相同的域但不同的标签。我们分析了线性设置，从理论上展示了LISA如何导致较小的最差组错误。凭经验，我们研究了LISA对从亚本化转变到域移位的九个基准的有效性，我们发现LISA一直以其他最先进的方法表达。

许多数据集被指定：给定任务存在多个同样可行的解决方案。对于学习单个假设的方法，指定的指定可能是有问题的，因为实现低训练损失的不同功能可以集中在不同的预测特征上，从而在分布数据的数据上产生明显变化的预测。我们提出了Divdis，这是一个简单的两阶段框架，首先通过利用测试分布中的未标记数据来学习多种假设，以实现任务。然后，我们通过使用其他标签的形式或检查功能可视化的形式选择最小的其他监督来选择一个发现的假设之一来消除歧义。我们证明了Divdis找到在图像分类中使用强大特征的假设和自然语言处理问题的能力。

Empirical studies suggest that machine learning models trained with empirical risk minimization (ERM) often rely on attributes that may be spuriously correlated with the class labels. Such models typically lead to poor performance during inference for data lacking such correlations. In this work, we explicitly consider a situation where potential spurious correlations are present in the majority of training data. In contrast with existing approaches, which use the ERM model outputs to detect the samples without spurious correlations, and either heuristically upweighting or upsampling those samples; we propose the logit correction (LC) loss, a simple yet effective improvement on the softmax cross-entropy loss, to correct the sample logit. We demonstrate that minimizing the LC loss is equivalent to maximizing the group-balanced accuracy, so the proposed LC could mitigate the negative impacts of spurious correlations. Our extensive experimental results further reveal that the proposed LC loss outperforms the SoTA solutions on multiple popular benchmarks by a large margin, an average 5.5% absolute improvement, without access to spurious attribute labels. LC is also competitive with oracle methods that make use of the attribute labels. Code is available at https://github.com/shengliu66/LC.

The standard empirical risk minimization (ERM) can underperform on certain minority groups (i.e., waterbirds in lands or landbirds in water) due to the spurious correlation between the input and its label. Several studies have improved the worst-group accuracy by focusing on the high-loss samples. The hypothesis behind this is that such high-loss samples are \textit{spurious-cue-free} (SCF) samples. However, these approaches can be problematic since the high-loss samples may also be samples with noisy labels in the real-world scenarios. To resolve this issue, we utilize the predictive uncertainty of a model to improve the worst-group accuracy under noisy labels. To motivate this, we theoretically show that the high-uncertainty samples are the SCF samples in the binary classification problem. This theoretical result implies that the predictive uncertainty is an adequate indicator to identify SCF samples in a noisy label setting. Motivated from this, we propose a novel ENtropy based Debiasing (END) framework that prevents models from learning the spurious cues while being robust to the noisy labels. In the END framework, we first train the \textit{identification model} to obtain the SCF samples from a training set using its predictive uncertainty. Then, another model is trained on the dataset augmented with an oversampled SCF set. The experimental results show that our END framework outperforms other strong baselines on several real-world benchmarks that consider both the noisy labels and the spurious-cues.

虽然大型审计的基础模型（FMS）对数据集级别的分布变化显示出显着的零击分类鲁棒性，但它们对亚群或组移动的稳健性相对却相对不受欢迎。我们研究了这个问题，并发现诸如剪辑之类的FMS可能对各种群体转移可能不健壮。在9个稳健性基准中，其嵌入式分类零射击分类导致平均和最差组精度之间的差距高达80.7个百分点（PP）。不幸的是，现有的改善鲁棒性的方法需要重新培训，这在大型基础模型上可能非常昂贵。我们还发现，改善模型推理的有效方法（例如，通过适配器，具有FM嵌入式作为输入的轻量级网络）不会持续改进，有时与零击相比会伤害组鲁棒性（例如，将精度差距提高到50.1 pp on 50.1 pp on On on 50.1 pp on Celeba）。因此，我们制定了一种适配器培训策略，以有效有效地改善FM组的鲁棒性。我们激励的观察是，尽管同一阶级中的群体中较差的鲁棒性在基础模型“嵌入空间”中分开，但标准适配器训练可能不会使这些要点更加紧密。因此，我们提出了对比度的适应，该适应器会通过对比度学习进行训练适配器，以使样品嵌入在同一类中的地面真相类嵌入和其他样品嵌入。在整个9个基准测试中，我们的方法始终提高组鲁棒性，使最差的组精度提高了8.5至56.0 pp。我们的方法也是有效的，这样做的方法也没有任何FM芬太尼，只有一组固定的冷冻FM嵌入。在水鸟和Celeba等基准上，这导致最差的组精度可与最先进的方法相媲美，而最先进的方法可以重新训练整个模型，而仅训练$ \ leq $ 1％的模型参数。

Adversarial examples have attracted significant attention in machine learning, but the reasons for their existence and pervasiveness remain unclear. We demonstrate that adversarial examples can be directly attributed to the presence of non-robust features: features (derived from patterns in the data distribution) that are highly predictive, yet brittle and (thus) incomprehensible to humans. After capturing these features within a theoretical framework, we establish their widespread existence in standard datasets. Finally, we present a simple setting where we can rigorously tie the phenomena we observe in practice to a misalignment between the (human-specified) notion of robustness and the inherent geometry of the data.

我们提出了简单的主动采样和重新重量策略，以优化最小最大公平性，可以应用于通过损耗最小化学习的任何分类或回归模型。我们的方法背后的关键直觉是在每个TIMESTEP中使用来自当前模型中最差的组的DataPoint，以更新模型。实施的易于实现和我们稳健的制定的一般性使其成为提高糟糕表现群体的模型性能的有吸引力的选择。对于凸起的学习问题，如线性或逻辑回归，我们提供了对我们的策略的细粒度分析，证明了其收敛速度对Min-Max Fair解决方案。

Learning models that gracefully handle distribution shifts is central to research on domain generalization, robust optimization, and fairness. A promising formulation is domain-invariant learning, which identifies the key issue of learning which features are domain-specific versus domaininvariant. An important assumption in this area is that the training examples are partitioned into "domains" or "environments". Our focus is on the more common setting where such partitions are not provided. We propose EIIL, a general framework for domain-invariant learning that incorporates Environment Inference to directly infer partitions that are maximally informative for downstream Invariant Learning. We show that EIIL outperforms invariant learning methods on the CMNIST benchmark without using environment labels, and significantly outperforms ERM on worst-group performance in the Waterbirds and CivilComments datasets. Finally, we establish connections between EIIL and algorithmic fairness, which enables EIIL to improve accuracy and calibration in a fair prediction problem.

监督学习的关键假设是培训和测试数据遵循相同的概率分布。然而，这种基本假设在实践中并不总是满足，例如，由于不断变化的环境，样本选择偏差，隐私问题或高标签成本。转移学习（TL）放松这种假设，并允许我们在分销班次下学习。通常依赖于重要性加权的经典TL方法 - 基于根据重要性（即测试过度训练密度比率）的训练损失培训预测器。然而，由于现实世界机器学习任务变得越来越复杂，高维和动态，探讨了新的新方法，以应对这些挑战最近。在本文中，在介绍基于重要性加权的TL基础之后，我们根据关节和动态重要预测估计审查最近的进步。此外，我们介绍一种因果机制转移方法，该方法包含T1中的因果结构。最后，我们讨论了TL研究的未来观点。

少数族裔类的数据增强是长尾识别的有效策略，因此开发了大量方法。尽管这些方法都确保了样本数量的平衡，但是增强样品的质量并不总是令人满意的，识别且容易出现过度拟合，缺乏多样性，语义漂移等问题。对于这些问题，我们建议班级感知的大学启发了重新平衡学习（CAUIRR），以进行长尾识别，这使Universum具有班级感知的能力，可以从样本数量和质量中重新平衡个人少数族裔。特别是，我们从理论上证明，凯尔学到的分类器与从贝叶斯的角度从平衡状态下学到的那些人一致。此外，我们进一步开发了一种高阶混合方法，该方法可以自动生成类感知的Universum（CAU）数据，而无需诉诸任何外部数据。与传统的大学不同，此类产生的全球还考虑了域的相似性，阶级可分离性和样本多样性。基准数据集的广泛实验证明了我们方法的令人惊讶的优势，尤其是与最先进的方法相比，少数族裔类别的TOP1准确性提高了1.9％6％。

Deep learning algorithms can fare poorly when the training dataset suffers from heavy class-imbalance but the testing criterion requires good generalization on less frequent classes. We design two novel methods to improve performance in such scenarios. First, we propose a theoretically-principled label-distribution-aware margin (LDAM) loss motivated by minimizing a margin-based generalization bound. This loss replaces the standard cross-entropy objective during training and can be applied with prior strategies for training with class-imbalance such as re-weighting or re-sampling. Second, we propose a simple, yet effective, training schedule that defers re-weighting until after the initial stage, allowing the model to learn an initial representation while avoiding some of the complications associated with re-weighting or re-sampling. We test our methods on several benchmark vision tasks including the real-world imbalanced dataset iNaturalist 2018. Our experiments show that either of these methods alone can already improve over existing techniques and their combination achieves even better performance gains 1 .