7 accepted papers
Learning decision policies from confounded observational data is a challenging task in causal inference, as unobserved confounders can lead to biased or suboptimal actions when relying solely on machine learning models. A synergistic approach is learning to defer, which decides when to act itself an
Dynamically configuring algorithm hyperparameters is a fundamental challenge in computational intelligence. While learning-based methods offer automation, they suffer from prohibitive sample complexity and poor generalization. We introduce AutoEP, a novel framework that bypasses training entirely by…
Federated unlearning (FU) is critical for complying with legal mandates like the right to be forgotten in decentralized systems, yet current methods face a persistent dilemma between non-target knowledge loss and high request latency. To resolve these issues, we propose FedUP, a one-shot federated u
Task-vector–based model merging enables low-cost, training-free multi-task learning for large language models, but suffers from severe performance degradation due to task conflict. Prior mitigation strategies largely rely on validation data for costly hyperparameter tuning, limiting both interpretab…
Modern multi-label image classification models suffer from a critical reliance on spurious correlations, failing to learn the underlying causal mechanisms. Many causality-inspired methods are impractical, demanding box-level supervision that is rarely available in real-world datasets. Others rely on
Conventional federated learning (FL) assumes a closed world with a fixed total number of clients. In contrast, new clients continuously join the FL process in real-world scenarios, introducing new knowledge. This raises two critical demands: detecting new knowledge, i.e., knowledge discovery, and in…
Federated Learning is a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative model training. In practice, it is essential not only to continuously train the model to acquire new knowledge but also to guarantee old knowledge the right to be forgotten (i.e., federated unlearning), especially for pr…