Escaping the SpuriVerse: Can Large Vision-Language Models Generalize Beyond Seen Spurious Correlations?

Sep 1, 2025ยท
Yiwei Yang
Equal contribution
,
Chung Peng Lee
Equal contribution
,
Shangbin Feng
,
Dora Zhao
Bingbing Wen
Bingbing Wen
,
Anthony Z. Liu
,
Yulia Tsvetkov
,
Bill Howe
ยท 1 min read
Abstract
We study whether large vision-language models can generalize beyond spurious correlations observed during training, introducing a benchmark to probe robustness to spurious signals.
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Publication
NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks

We introduce a benchmark to evaluate whether large vision-language models can move beyond spurious correlations and generalize robustly to distribution shifts that break shortcut cues.