AI models often rely on 'spurious correlations,' making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can ...

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have recently become state-of-the-art (SOTA) for personalized recommendation. The core idea of SSL in recommendation is to learn better user and item ...

Spurious correlations contribute to the risks of biased decision-making. In the NeurIPS conference paper, the researchers showed that, for example, chest X-ray models that improved overall diagnosis ...

Tyler Vigen’s book, Spurious Correlations, is warm, funny and makes several very important points. According to Vigen, his book is based on dozens of correlations between completely unrelated sets of ...

Researchers typically do not try to publish negative findings, but this new social-sciences journal welcomes such data with open arms. The journal’s editors define negative findings as “those that do ...