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most citedTowards Out-Of-Distribution Generalization: A Survey

236 citations · 353 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

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

Sample Weight Averaging for Stable Prediction

Han Yu, Yue He, Renzhe Xu +4

The challenge of Out-of-Distribution (OOD) generalization poses a foundational concern for the application of machine learning algorithms to risk-sensitive areas. Inspired by tradi…

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.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★ 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.LG2023★ 10 cited

Model Agnostic Sample Reweighting for Out-of-Distribution Learning

Xiao Zhou, Yong Lin, Renjie Pi +4

Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) and invariant risk minimization (IRM) are two popular methods proposed to improve out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization performance of…

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…

cs.CV2022★ 16 cited

Towards Domain Generalization in Object Detection

Xingxuan Zhang, Zekai Xu, Renzhe Xu +5

Despite the striking performance achieved by modern detectors when training and test data are sampled from the same or similar distribution, the generalization ability of detectors…

cs.CY2022★ 10 cited

Regulatory Instruments for Fair Personalized Pricing

Renzhe Xu, Xingxuan Zhang, Peng Cui +3

Personalized pricing is a business strategy to charge different prices to individual consumers based on their characteristics and behaviors. It has become common practice in many i…

cs.LG2021★ 11 cited

A Theoretical Analysis on Independence-driven Importance Weighting for Covariate-shift Generalization

Renzhe Xu, Xingxuan Zhang, Zheyan Shen +2

Covariate-shift generalization, a typical case in out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization, requires a good performance on the unknown test distribution, which varies from the acce…

cs.LG2021★ 236 cited

Towards Out-Of-Distribution Generalization: A Survey

Jiashuo Liu, Zheyan Shen, Yue He +4

Traditional machine learning paradigms are based on the assumption that both training and test data follow the same statistical pattern, which is mathematically referred to as Inde…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Towards Unsupervised Domain Generalization

Xingxuan Zhang, Linjun Zhou, Renzhe Xu +3

Domain generalization (DG) aims to help models trained on a set of source domains generalize better on unseen target domains. The performances of current DG methods largely rely on…

cs.LG2021★ 21 cited

Deep Stable Learning for Out-Of-Distribution Generalization

Xingxuan Zhang, Peng Cui, Renzhe Xu +3

Approaches based on deep neural networks have achieved striking performance when testing data and training data share similar distribution, but can significantly fail otherwise. Th…

cs.LG2020★ 27 cited

Algorithmic Decision Making with Conditional Fairness

Renzhe Xu, Peng Cui, Kun Kuang +4

Nowadays fairness issues have raised great concerns in decision-making systems. Various fairness notions have been proposed to measure the degree to which an algorithm is unfair. I…