Whitening Improves Robustness to Spurious Correlations in Linear Probes

arXiv:2609.39177 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Linear probe — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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• LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the Heuristics
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• Complexity Matters: Dynamics of Feature Learning in the Presence of Spurious Correlations
• Distributionally Robust Neural Networks for Group Shifts: On the Importance of Regularization for Worst-Case Generalization
• Correlation Alignment for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

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