Learning Decomposable and Debiased Representations via Attribute-Centric Information Bottlenecks

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Main Authors: Hong, Jinyung, Jeon, Eun Som, Kim, Changhoon, Park, Keun Hee, Nath, Utkarsh, Yang, Yezhou, Turaga, Pavan, Pavlic, Theodore P.
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author Hong, Jinyung
Jeon, Eun Som
Kim, Changhoon
Park, Keun Hee
Nath, Utkarsh
Yang, Yezhou
Turaga, Pavan
Pavlic, Theodore P.
author_facet Hong, Jinyung
Jeon, Eun Som
Kim, Changhoon
Park, Keun Hee
Nath, Utkarsh
Yang, Yezhou
Turaga, Pavan
Pavlic, Theodore P.
contents Biased attributes, spuriously correlated with target labels in a dataset, can problematically lead to neural networks that learn improper shortcuts for classifications and limit their capabilities for out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization. Although many debiasing approaches have been proposed to ensure correct predictions from biased datasets, few studies have considered learning latent embedding consisting of intrinsic and biased attributes that contribute to improved performance and explain how the model pays attention to attributes. In this paper, we propose a novel debiasing framework, Debiasing Global Workspace, introducing attention-based information bottlenecks for learning compositional representations of attributes without defining specific bias types. Based on our observation that learning shape-centric representation helps robust performance on OOD datasets, we adopt those abilities to learn robust and generalizable representations of decomposable latent embeddings corresponding to intrinsic and biasing attributes. We conduct comprehensive evaluations on biased datasets, along with both quantitative and qualitative analyses, to showcase our approach's efficacy in attribute-centric representation learning and its ability to differentiate between intrinsic and bias-related features.
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spellingShingle Learning Decomposable and Debiased Representations via Attribute-Centric Information Bottlenecks
Hong, Jinyung
Jeon, Eun Som
Kim, Changhoon
Park, Keun Hee
Nath, Utkarsh
Yang, Yezhou
Turaga, Pavan
Pavlic, Theodore P.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Biased attributes, spuriously correlated with target labels in a dataset, can problematically lead to neural networks that learn improper shortcuts for classifications and limit their capabilities for out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization. Although many debiasing approaches have been proposed to ensure correct predictions from biased datasets, few studies have considered learning latent embedding consisting of intrinsic and biased attributes that contribute to improved performance and explain how the model pays attention to attributes. In this paper, we propose a novel debiasing framework, Debiasing Global Workspace, introducing attention-based information bottlenecks for learning compositional representations of attributes without defining specific bias types. Based on our observation that learning shape-centric representation helps robust performance on OOD datasets, we adopt those abilities to learn robust and generalizable representations of decomposable latent embeddings corresponding to intrinsic and biasing attributes. We conduct comprehensive evaluations on biased datasets, along with both quantitative and qualitative analyses, to showcase our approach's efficacy in attribute-centric representation learning and its ability to differentiate between intrinsic and bias-related features.
title Learning Decomposable and Debiased Representations via Attribute-Centric Information Bottlenecks
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14140