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Apr 5, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Beat Shortcut Learning for Better OOD Generalization in Vision Models

Visual and vision-language models excel under IID benchmarks but often fail on out-of-distribution data due to shortcut learning; this article examines the problem, explains its causes, and proposes data-level and model-level interventions—including StillMix, FLASH, and SPARCL—to improve OOD robustness.