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From Fake to Real: Pretraining on Balanced Synthetic Images to Prevent Spurious Correlations in Image Recognition

"Visual recognition models are prone to learning spurious correlations induced by a biased training set where certain conditions B (, Indoors) are over-represented in certain classes Y (, Big Dogs). Synthetic data from off-the-shelf large-scale generative models offers a promising direction to mitig…