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most citedTowards Out-Of-Distribution Generalization: A Survey

236 citations · 327 across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

cs.LG2026

Surprisingly Simple and Effective Multi-Domain Graph Foundation Model through Graph-to-Table Alignment

Chunyu Hu, Tianyin Liao, Ge Lan +4

Graph Foundation Models (GFMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for learning transferable representations across diverse graph domains. Recent advancements in GFMs have been la…

cs.LG2026

Closed-Form Spectral Regularization for Multi-Task Model Merging

Yongxian Wei, Runxi Cheng, Xingxuan Zhang +4

Model merging combines several independently fine-tuned experts into a single multi-task model without any training data, reducing the storage, serving, and decentralized-developme…

cs.LG2026

LimiX-2M: Mitigating Low-Rank Collapse and Attention Bottlenecks in Tabular Foundation Models

Yuanrui Wang, Xingxuan Zhang, Han Yu +7

Tabular foundation models (TFMs) increasingly rival tree ensembles, but their performance is often compute-inefficient: with standard affine scalar tokenization, each feature injec…

cs.LG2026

Breaking the Quality-Privacy Tradeoff in Tabular Data Generation via In-Context Learning

Xinyan Han, Yan Lu, Xiaoyu Lin +5

Tabular data synthesis aims to generate high-quality data while preserving privacy. However, we find that existing tabular generative models exhibit a clear tradeoff in the small-d…

cs.LG2026

A Knowledge-Informed Pretrained Model for Causal Discovery

Wenbo Xu, Yue He, Yunhai Wang +4

Causal discovery has been widely studied, yet many existing methods rely on strong assumptions or fall into two extremes: either depending on costly interventional signals or parti…

cs.LG2026

TFMLinker: Universal Link Predictor by Graph In-Context Learning with Tabular Foundation Models

Tianyin Liao, Chunyu Hu, Yicheng Sui +4

Link prediction is a fundamental task in graph machine learning with widespread applications such as recommendation systems, drug discovery, knowledge graphs, etc. In the foundatio…

cs.LG2025

Generating Risky Samples with Conformity Constraints via Diffusion Models

Han Yu, Hao Zou, Xingxuan Zhang +4

Although neural networks achieve promising performance in many tasks, they may still fail when encountering some examples and bring about risks to applications. To discover risky s…

cs.LG2025

ODP-Bench: Benchmarking Out-of-Distribution Performance Prediction

Han Yu, Kehan Li, Dongbai Li +3

Recently, there has been gradually more attention paid to Out-of-Distribution (OOD) performance prediction, whose goal is to predict the performance of trained models on unlabeled…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

LimiX: Unleashing Structured-Data Modeling Capability for Generalist Intelligence

Xingxuan Zhang, Gang Ren, Han Yu +35

We argue that progress toward general intelligence requires complementary foundation models grounded in language, the physical world, and structured data. This report presents Limi…

cs.CV2025

COUNTS: Benchmarking Object Detectors and Multimodal Large Language Models under Distribution Shifts

Jiansheng Li, Xingxuan Zhang, Hao Zou +6

Current object detectors often suffer significant perfor-mance degradation in real-world applications when encountering distributional shifts. Consequently, the out-of-distribution…

cs.LG2025

Understanding the Generalization of In-Context Learning in Transformers: An Empirical Study

Xingxuan Zhang, Haoran Wang, Jiansheng Li +6

Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and LLaMA-3 utilize the powerful in-context learning (ICL) capability of Transformer architecture to learn on the fly from limited examples.…

cs.LG2025

Error Slice Discovery via Manifold Compactness

Han Yu, Hao Zou, Jiashuo Liu +4

Despite the great performance of deep learning models in many areas, they still make mistakes and underperform on certain subsets of data, i.e. error slices. Given a trained model,…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

A Survey on Evaluation of Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Han Yu, Jiashuo Liu, Xingxuan Zhang +2

Machine learning models, while progressively advanced, rely heavily on the IID assumption, which is often unfulfilled in practice due to inevitable distribution shifts. This render…

cs.GT2024★ 1 cited

PPA-Game: Characterizing and Learning Competitive Dynamics Among Online Content Creators

Renzhe Xu, Haotian Wang, Xingxuan Zhang +2

In this paper, we present the Proportional Payoff Allocation Game (PPA-Game), which characterizes situations where agents compete for divisible resources. In the PPA-game, agents s…

cs.CV2024★ 6 cited

On the Out-Of-Distribution Generalization of Multimodal Large Language Models

Xingxuan Zhang, Jiansheng Li, Wenjing Chu +6

We investigate the generalization boundaries of current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) via comprehensive evaluation under out-of-distribution scenarios and domain-specifi…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Flatness-Aware Minimization for Domain Generalization

Xingxuan Zhang, Renzhe Xu, Han Yu +3

Domain generalization (DG) seeks to learn robust models that generalize well under unknown distribution shifts. As a critical aspect of DG, optimizer selection has not been explore…

cs.LG2023

Meta Adaptive Task Sampling for Few-Domain Generalization

Zheyan Shen, Han Yu, Peng Cui +4

To ensure the out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization performance, traditional domain generalization (DG) methods resort to training on data from multiple sources with different u…

cs.IR2023

Exploring and Exploiting Data Heterogeneity in Recommendation

Zimu Wang, Jiashuo Liu, Hao Zou +4

Massive amounts of data are the foundation of data-driven recommendation models. As an inherent nature of big data, data heterogeneity widely exists in real-world recommendation sy…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Competing for Shareable Arms in Multi-Player Multi-Armed Bandits

Renzhe Xu, Haotian Wang, Xingxuan Zhang +2

Competitions for shareable and limited resources have long been studied with strategic agents. In reality, agents often have to learn and maximize the rewards of the resources at t…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Rethinking the Evaluation Protocol of Domain Generalization

Han Yu, Xingxuan Zhang, Renzhe Xu +3

Domain generalization aims to solve the challenge of Out-of-Distribution (OOD) generalization by leveraging common knowledge learned from multiple training domains to generalize to…

cs.LG2023

Gradient Norm Aware Minimization Seeks First-Order Flatness and Improves Generalization

Xingxuan Zhang, Renzhe Xu, Han Yu +2

Recently, flat minima are proven to be effective for improving generalization and sharpness-aware minimization (SAM) achieves state-of-the-art performance. Yet the current definiti…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Stable Learning via Sparse Variable Independence

Han Yu, Peng Cui, Yue He +4

The problem of covariate-shift generalization has attracted intensive research attention. Previous stable learning algorithms employ sample reweighting schemes to decorrelate the c…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Product Ranking for Revenue Maximization with Multiple Purchases

Renzhe Xu, Xingxuan Zhang, Bo Li +3

Product ranking is the core problem for revenue-maximizing online retailers. To design proper product ranking algorithms, various consumer choice models are proposed to characteriz…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

NICO++: Towards Better Benchmarking for Domain Generalization

Xingxuan Zhang, Yue He, Renzhe Xu +3

Despite the remarkable performance that modern deep neural networks have achieved on independent and identically distributed (I.I.D.) data, they can crash under distribution shifts…