Spurious Feature Diversification Improves Out-of-distribution Generalization

no code implementations • 29 Sep 2023 • Yong Lin, Lu Tan, Yifan Hao, Honam Wong, Hanze Dong, Weizhong Zhang, Yujiu Yang, Tong Zhang

Contrary to the conventional wisdom that focuses on learning invariant features for better OOD performance, our findings suggest that incorporating a large number of diverse spurious features weakens their individual contributions, leading to improved overall OOD generalization performance.

Out-of-Distribution Generalization