LADDER: Language-Driven Slice Discovery and Error Rectification in Vision Classifiers

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Main Authors: Ghosh, Shantanu, Syed, Rayan, Wang, Chenyu, Choudhary, Vaibhav, Li, Binxu, Poynton, Clare B., Visweswaran, Shyam, Batmanghelich, Kayhan
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author Ghosh, Shantanu
Syed, Rayan
Wang, Chenyu
Choudhary, Vaibhav
Li, Binxu
Poynton, Clare B.
Visweswaran, Shyam
Batmanghelich, Kayhan
author_facet Ghosh, Shantanu
Syed, Rayan
Wang, Chenyu
Choudhary, Vaibhav
Li, Binxu
Poynton, Clare B.
Visweswaran, Shyam
Batmanghelich, Kayhan
contents Error slice discovery is crucial to diagnose and mitigate model errors. Current clustering or discrete attribute-based slice discovery methods face key limitations: 1) clustering results in incoherent slices, while assigning discrete attributes to slices leads to incomplete coverage of error patterns due to missing or insufficient attributes; 2) these methods lack complex reasoning, preventing them from fully explaining model biases; 3) they fail to integrate \textit{domain knowledge}, limiting their usage in specialized fields \eg radiology. We propose\ladder (\underline{La}nguage-\underline{D}riven \underline{D}iscovery and \underline{E}rror \underline{R}ectification), to address the limitations by: (1) leveraging the flexibility of natural language to address incompleteness, (2) employing LLM's latent \textit{domain knowledge} and advanced reasoning to analyze sentences and derive testable hypotheses directly, identifying biased attributes, and form coherent error slices without clustering. Existing mitigation methods typically address only the worst-performing group, often amplifying errors in other subgroups. In contrast,\ladder generates pseudo attributes from the discovered hypotheses to mitigate errors across all biases without explicit attribute annotations or prior knowledge of bias. Rigorous evaluations on 6 datasets spanning natural and medical images -- comparing 200+ classifiers with diverse architectures, pretraining strategies, and LLMs -- show that\ladder consistently outperforms existing baselines in discovering and mitigating biases.
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spellingShingle LADDER: Language-Driven Slice Discovery and Error Rectification in Vision Classifiers
Ghosh, Shantanu
Syed, Rayan
Wang, Chenyu
Choudhary, Vaibhav
Li, Binxu
Poynton, Clare B.
Visweswaran, Shyam
Batmanghelich, Kayhan
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Error slice discovery is crucial to diagnose and mitigate model errors. Current clustering or discrete attribute-based slice discovery methods face key limitations: 1) clustering results in incoherent slices, while assigning discrete attributes to slices leads to incomplete coverage of error patterns due to missing or insufficient attributes; 2) these methods lack complex reasoning, preventing them from fully explaining model biases; 3) they fail to integrate \textit{domain knowledge}, limiting their usage in specialized fields \eg radiology. We propose\ladder (\underline{La}nguage-\underline{D}riven \underline{D}iscovery and \underline{E}rror \underline{R}ectification), to address the limitations by: (1) leveraging the flexibility of natural language to address incompleteness, (2) employing LLM's latent \textit{domain knowledge} and advanced reasoning to analyze sentences and derive testable hypotheses directly, identifying biased attributes, and form coherent error slices without clustering. Existing mitigation methods typically address only the worst-performing group, often amplifying errors in other subgroups. In contrast,\ladder generates pseudo attributes from the discovered hypotheses to mitigate errors across all biases without explicit attribute annotations or prior knowledge of bias. Rigorous evaluations on 6 datasets spanning natural and medical images -- comparing 200+ classifiers with diverse architectures, pretraining strategies, and LLMs -- show that\ladder consistently outperforms existing baselines in discovering and mitigating biases.
title LADDER: Language-Driven Slice Discovery and Error Rectification in Vision Classifiers
topic Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07832