AI models often rely on 'spurious correlations,' making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can ...

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have recently become state-of-the-art (SOTA) for personalized recommendation. The core idea of SSL in recommendation is to learn better user and item ...

It is by now an age old adage that "correlation doesn't equal causation," but the internet just loves stories that make spurious correlations. Just yesterday there was an article floating around from ...

Here for spreading far and wide is (another) graphical reminder of the important distinction between correlation and causation. On correlation, causation, and the “real” cause of autism Created by ...

Discover the latest articles and news in related subjects. One important question is whether the magnitude of PEH depends on the general BP status of the individual. Greater PEH in individuals with ...

Tyler Vigen’s book, Spurious Correlations, is warm, funny and makes several very important points. According to Vigen, his book is based on dozens of correlations between completely unrelated sets of ...

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing in recent years about the alarming rate at which bees have been disappearing. Despite the fact that Einstein probably never actually said that if the bees go man ...