{"id":208292,"date":"2025-03-11T00:30:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T05:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-technique-overcomes-spurious-correlations-problem-in-ai"},"modified":"2025-03-11T00:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T05:30:57","slug":"new-technique-overcomes-spurious-correlations-problem-in-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-technique-overcomes-spurious-correlations-problem-in-ai","title":{"rendered":"New technique overcomes spurious correlations problem in AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technique-overcomes-spurious-correlations-problem-in-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI models often rely on \u201cspurious correlations,\u201d making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can be traced to a very small subset of the training data and have demonstrated a technique that overcomes the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis technique is novel in that it can be used even when you have no idea what spurious correlations the AI is relying on,\u201d says Jung-Eun Kim, corresponding author of a <a href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/pdf?id=Bk13Qfu8Ru\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> on the work and an assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you already have a good idea of what the spurious features are, our technique is an efficient and effective way to address the problem. However, even if you are simply having performance issues, but don\u2019t understand why, you could still use our technique to determine whether a spurious correlation exists and resolve that issue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI models often rely on \u201cspurious correlations,\u201d making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can be traced to a very small subset of the training data and have demonstrated a technique that overcomes the problem. \u201cThis technique is novel in that it can be used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}