CoBA: Counterbias Text Augmentation for Mitigating Various Spurious Correlations via Semantic Triples (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Spurious correlations are patterns that appear in datasets but do not represent genuine relationships. |
| Approach: | They propose a more general form of counterfactual data augmentation that tackles multiple biases . they propose 'CoBA' that decomposes text into subject-predicate-object triples and modifies them to disrupt spurious correlations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces biases and strengthens out-of-distribution resilience. |
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