Fahimeh Hosseini Noohdani

Decompose-and-Compose: A Compositional Approach to Mitigating Spurious Correlation

While standard Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) training is proven effective for image classification on in-distribution data it fails to perform well on out-of-distribution samples. One of the main sources of distribution shift for image classification is the compositional nature of images. Specif…