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20182026
most citedThe Clever Hans Mirage: A Comprehensive Survey on Spurious Correlations in Machine Learning

15 citations · 28 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CR2026

When Embedding-Based Defenses Fail: Rethinking Safety in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Lingxi Zhang, Guangtao Zheng, Hanjie Chen

Large language model (LLM)-powered multi-agent systems (MAS) enable agents to communicate and share information, achieving strong performance on complex tasks. However, this commun…

cs.CV2025

SAGE: Spuriousness-Aware Guided Prompt Exploration for Mitigating Multimodal Bias

Wenqian Ye, Di Wang, Guangtao Zheng +2

Large vision-language models, such as CLIP, have shown strong zero-shot classification performance by aligning images and text in a shared embedding space. However, CLIP models oft…

cs.AI2025

Rectifying Shortcut Behaviors in Preference-based Reward Learning

Wenqian Ye, Guangtao Zheng, Aidong Zhang

In reinforcement learning from human feedback, preference-based reward models play a central role in aligning large language models to human-aligned behavior. However, recent studi…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Improving Group Robustness on Spurious Correlation via Evidential Alignment

Wenqian Ye, Guangtao Zheng, Aidong Zhang

Deep neural networks often learn and rely on spurious correlations, i.e., superficial associations between non-causal features and the targets. For instance, an image classifier ma…

cs.LG2025

ShortcutProbe: Probing Prediction Shortcuts for Learning Robust Models

Guangtao Zheng, Wenqian Ye, Aidong Zhang

Deep learning models often achieve high performance by inadvertently learning spurious correlations between targets and non-essential features. For example, an image classifier may…

cs.LG2025

NeuronTune: Towards Self-Guided Spurious Bias Mitigation

Guangtao Zheng, Wenqian Ye, Aidong Zhang

Deep neural networks often develop spurious bias, reliance on correlations between non-essential features and classes for predictions. For example, a model may identify objects bas…