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An Analysis of Model Robustness across Concurrent Distribution Shifts

T0 review · 3 major / 7 minor · reviewed 2026-08-10 · deepseek-v4-flash

Pith's one-line read This paper claims that when distribution shifts occur together, models degrade more than under any single shift, except that spurious correlation dominates so completely that adding extra shifts barely changes accuracy.

desk verdict Controlled ConDS benchmark is solid and useful; the real-world ConDS claim is asserted, not verified, and needs to be reined in before this can be accepted. read the letter →

arxiv 2501.04288 v1 pith:YP7JJRAL submitted 2025-01-08 cs.LG

classification cs.LG
keywords distributionshiftconcurrentspuriouscorrelationlowdatadriftunseenrobustnessbenchmarkingaugmentationfoundationmodels
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper aims to establish that concurrent distribution shifts—several shifts hitting a model at once—are systematically harder for machine learning models than any single shift, with one big exception: spurious correlation is so difficult that once it is present, adding other shifts barely changes performance. To test this, the authors build a protocol called ConDS that composes three basic shift types (spurious correlation, low data drift, and unseen data shift) across multiple attributes of a dataset, and they evaluate 26 algorithms on 168 source-target pairs drawn from five controlled and three real-world datasets. Their main findings are that compound shifts degrade accuracy more than single shifts, that a method which helps on one shift tends to help on others, and that simple heuristic data augmentations outperform most bespoke robustness algorithms. If correct, this tells practitioners where to focus: fix spurious correlations first, and rely on augmentation plus pre-training rather than complex robustness losses.

What carries the argument

The central machinery is the ConDS protocol: a dataset is treated as instances generated from a finite set of attributes, with one attribute designated as label; shifts are created by manipulating how attribute values are distributed between source and target. UniDS consists of spurious correlation (SC), low data drift (LDD), and unseen data shift (UDS); ConDS is the set of all combinations of two or three of these, each applied to a different attribute. This lets the paper create 168 source-target pairs from five controlled and three real-world datasets and evaluate 26 algorithms under identical, standardized conditions.

What would settle it

On a controlled multi-attribute dataset, construct SC using attribute A and add a strong LDD using attribute B that is causally independent of A; if most algorithms show a large accuracy drop from SC alone to SC+LDD (comparable to the LDD-only drop), then the claim that SC masks additional shifts is false.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

On the paper's own terms, the central discovery is that concurrent distribution shifts (ConDS) are typically more challenging than single distribution shifts, but spurious correlation (SC) dominates the difficulty: average accuracy under SC alone is close to that under SC+LDD and SC+UDS, and even under SC+LDD+UDS, while LDD+UDS without SC does show additional degradation. The paper also discovers that generalization benefits transfer across shift types—a method designed for one shift tends to help others—and that heuristic augmentations such as AugMix, RandAug, and AutoAug achieve the best overall performance on both synthetic and real-world benchmarks. Finally, zero-shot foundation models (CLIP, LLaVA, GPT-4o) perform well on controlled datasets but drop sharply on real-world datasets, with average accuracy falling from about 82% to 32%.

Load-bearing premise

The claim that real-world datasets exhibit the same concurrent shifts as the controlled ones rests on the assumption that iWildCam, fMoW, and Camelyon17 actually contain the specific LDD and UDS components the framework targets, which the paper does not explicitly verify.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Deployment under compound shifts is riskier than single-shift benchmarks suggest; models should be stress-tested with several concurrent shifts before release.
  • Because spurious correlation dominates, accuracy improvements on non-spurious shifts may be invisible in overall averages; measuring performance on SC-heavy test sets is necessary to expose real robustness.
  • The transfer of generalization gains across shift types means a single robust method can serve across multiple shift categories, reducing the need for shift-specific tuning.
  • Heuristic augmentations and pre-training are the most cost-effective robustness levers among the 26 methods tested, outperforming more complex debiasing and domain-generalization losses.
  • Foundation models' strong controlled-dataset performance does not carry over to niche or specialized real-world data; their use there needs fine-tuning or careful prompt design.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Not tested in the paper: measuring worst-case shift accuracy instead of mean accuracy would likely reveal that SC-free shifts are where methods actually separate, since SC dominates the average.
  • The ConDS protocol could be applied to continuous or learned attribute representations—e.g., clusters from self-supervised features—to test whether the SC > UDS > LDD difficulty ordering survives beyond the specific discrete attributes chosen.
  • The paper's cross-shift transfer finding hints that robustness methods may share a common effect of increasing effective training diversity; isolating that effect could yield simpler methods than the bespoke losses evaluated.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 7 minor

Summary. This paper introduces ConDS, an empirical benchmark for concurrent distribution shifts. The authors define UniDS as spurious correlation (SC), low data drift (LDD), and unseen data shift (UDS), and define ConDS as combinations of two or more UniDS applied to different attributes of a multi-attribute dataset. They construct 165 controlled source-target pairs from dSprites, Shapes3D, SmallNorb, CelebA, and DeepFashion, plus three real-world WILDS datasets (iWildCam, fMoW, Camelyon17), and evaluate a broad set of algorithms ranging from standard architectures and heuristic augmentations to zero-shot vision-language models. The main findings are that concurrent shifts are on average harder than single shifts, spurious correlations dominate so that adding LDD or UDS to SC yields little additional degradation, robustness generalizes across shift types, heuristic augmentations and pre-training are the most effective strategies, and zero-shot foundation models deteriorate on real-world datasets.

Significance. If the controlled results hold, the paper provides a useful and much-needed benchmark for compound distribution shifts, an area that is less studied than single shifts. Its strengths include the large standardized evaluation over many algorithms and datasets, the explicit controlled construction from attribute-annotated data, detailed per-dataset and per-algorithm results in the appendix, and public code. The paper is also honest about several limitations, such as the uniform test distribution and the limited number of attributes. The controlled-dataset findings are measured rather than derived, so there is no circularity concern. The main risk is that the real-world conclusions currently rest on an unverified assumption that WILDS datasets exhibit decomposable concurrent shifts, and the headline difficulty comparisons are based on only two controlled datasets.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 5.1, Section 3.3, Table 3 caption] The treatment of iWildCam, fMoW, and Camelyon17 as 'real-world datasets with ConDS' is asserted rather than verified. Section 5.1 states that iWildCam 'exhibits LDD over the animal distributions, and UDS occurs across camera trap locations' and that fMoW 'exhibits UDS and LDD across time and regions in satellite images,' but no measurement separates these components or establishes that they co-occur independently. The manuscript itself concedes in Section 5.2 that 'Real-world datasets do not exhibit a clear distribution shift like controlled datasets, but they inherently contain various naturally occurring distribution shifts that may go unnoticed.' If, for example, the label imbalance in iWildCam is induced by the same camera-location mechanism that causes the image-style shift, then this is one entangled shift rather than two concurrent UniDS components, and the real-world extension of Takeaway 1 (and the real-world parts of Takeaways 4 and 6) is unsupported. Please either verify the decomposition with domain metadata (for instance, evaluating on subsets that vary one factor at a time) or explicitly label these datasets as 'assumed concurrent' and qualify the real-world claims accordingly.
  2. [Section 5.2, Figure 4] Takeaways 1 and 2 are stated as general claims, but the standardized difficulty comparison in Figure 4 'primarily relies on the Dsprites and CelebA' (Section 5.2). These are only two of the five controlled datasets. The aggregate plot in Figure 3 includes all five, but it mixes unequal dataset sizes and does not isolate the number-of-shifts effect. Please either report the standardized comparison for all five controlled datasets or explicitly restrict Takeaways 1 and 2 to dSprites and CelebA, and provide paired error bars or confidence intervals so that the 'ConDS is more challenging' claim is supported quantitatively.
  3. [Section 5.3, Takeaway 3] The claim that 'if a method improves generalization for one DS, it tends to be effective for others' is a central abstract claim, but the supporting evidence is only visual inspection of Figure 3. Given the large result matrix, the paper should quantify this consistency, for example by reporting rank correlations of algorithm accuracies across DS conditions and across datasets, with confidence intervals. Without such a measure, the 'tends to' claim is not falsifiable.
minor comments (7)
  1. [Section 5.2] The first paragraph says the paper evaluates '168 (source, target) pairs spanning six datasets,' but the paper uses eight datasets (five controlled plus three real-world), and the text later says there are 165 controlled pairs. Please reconcile the counts and clarify that 165 refers to the controlled datasets and 168 includes the three real-world pairs.
  2. [Table 1 and Section 4] Table 1 lists 28 model variants if CLIP-base and CLIP-large are counted separately (and 27 if CLIP is counted as one entry), while the text and abstract say 26 algorithms. Please make the algorithm count consistent between the text and the table.
  3. [Introduction] The citation 'CelebA (Karras et al., 2017)' is incorrect; the standard reference for CelebA is Liu et al., 2015, 'Deep Learning Face Attributes in the Wild'.
  4. [Section B.8] The phrase 'for the rebuttal' appears to be a leftover from the review process and should be removed or rephrased.
  5. [Section 5.2] The prompt citation '(Matsuura et al.)' lacks a year and a full reference entry; please add it to the bibliography.
  6. [Figure 3 caption] The sentence about zero-shot models having 'the same absolute performance for each row' is confusing, since the figure shows relative performance; please rewrite it.
  7. [Section B.11 and Takeaway 2] There are small typos: 'Computaional Cost' should be 'Computational Cost,' and 'Furthemore' should be 'Furthermore.'

Circularity Check

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No circularity: the ConDS difficulty claims are measured accuracies, not consequences of the ConDS definition.

full rationale

This is an empirical benchmarking paper. Its central claims (ConDS typically harder than UniDS; SC dominates; augmentations are best overall) are measurements over 168 source-target pairs on external datasets, not consequences of the formal definition. Equation (3) defines ConDS as subsets of UniDS of size at least 2, but the finding that adding more shifts usually lowers accuracy, and that SC saturates the drop, is an observed empirical ordering; nothing is fitted and then renamed a prediction. The UniDS definitions are imported from Wiles et al. (2022), an external benchmark, and used only to name shift types; the actual construction is detailed in Section A.2. The paper does contain an admitted limitation: Section 5.2 says 'Real-world datasets do not exhibit a clear distribution shift like controlled datasets, but they inherently contain various naturally occurring distribution shifts that may go unnoticed,' and Section 5.1 asserts without separate measurement that iWildCam and fMoW exhibit LDD and UDS components. That is an external-validity or correctness risk for the real-world generalization of Takeaway 4, not circularity: the controlled experiments stand independently, and the real-world claim is an unverified assumption rather than a derivation that reduces to its own inputs. No self-citation is load-bearing: Jeon et al. (2022a) is cited only for the 1% counterexample setup convention in SC construction, and Koh et al. (2021) is an external prior benchmark. Verdict: no significant circularity, score 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claims are empirical measurements, not derivations, so only one free parameter is noted: the grid-selected hyperparameters used to report each algorithm's best result. The framework relies on domain assumptions about uniform test distributions, attribute-level separability, the 1% counterexample choice, and the assertion that three real-world datasets contain concurrent shifts.

free parameters (1)
  • Per-algorithm hyperparameters (learning rate, augmentation magnitudes, etc.) = Selected by grid search per dataset and shift; detailed in Table 9
    All algorithms are reported at their best validation-set hyperparameters, which makes the comparison depend on the tuning procedure and can favor methods with more tunable components.
assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption Test distribution pT is uniform over all attribute values
    Section 3.2 defines pT with each attribute uniformly distributed and independent. The entire shift-creation protocol measures deviation from this uniform baseline; if real deployments do not have uniform attribute distributions, the difficulty ranking may change.
  • domain assumption Real-world datasets iWildCam, fMoW, and Camelyon17 contain the specific concurrent DSs under study
    Section 5.1 states that these datasets inherently contain naturally occurring distribution shifts, but the paper does not verify that they contain the specific LDD and UDS components or that those components behave like the controlled shifts.
  • ad hoc to paper Spurious correlation source data include 1% counterexamples
    Section A.2 and the experimental setup state that 1% counterexamples are included for SC, following prior work. The reported SC difficulty and its dominance over other shifts may depend on this specific fraction.

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  title        = {Pith review of: An Analysis of Model Robustness across Concurrent Distribution Shifts},
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Machine learning models, meticulously optimized for source data, often fail to predict target data when faced with distribution shifts (DSs). Previous benchmarking studies, though extensive, have mainly focused on simple DSs. Recognizing that DSs often occur in more complex forms in real-world scenarios, we broadened our study to include multiple concurrent shifts, such as unseen domain shifts combined with spurious correlations. We evaluated 26 algorithms that range from simple heuristic augmentations to zero-shot inference using foundation models, across 168 source-target pairs from eight datasets. Our analysis of over 100K models reveals that (i) concurrent DSs typically worsen performance compared to a single shift, with certain exceptions, (ii) if a model improves generalization for one distribution shift, it tends to be effective for others, and (iii) heuristic data augmentations achieve the best overall performance on both synthetic and real-world datasets.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Concurrent distribution shifts. Left: We list some attributes of a few images from the dSprites dataset. In this dataset, the object shape is the label. Center: We show how a single attribute e.g., the background color, can be used to create different types of distribution shifts. Namely, spurious correlation (SC), where in this example, the background color is correlated with the object shape, low data drift (LDD),… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. dSprites samples. Even in simple syn￾thetic data, multiple attributes can potentially lead to various DSs. Visualizations for other datasets are included in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Aggregate result on controlled datasets. We plot the change in accuracy compared to the base model, ResNet18, averaged across all seeds and controlled datasets with varying attributes. Blue indicates improved performance, while red indicates a decline. Each row is independent of the others. The models used for zero-shot inference were only used for evaluation, thus, they have the same absolute performance for each r… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Analysis of model robustness on distribution shifts. Left: Average performance of all generalization methods under different combinations of DSs. Right: Comparing the different generalization methods under an increasing number of DSs [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_…
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Samples of controlled datasets. We provide visualizations of some samples along with their attributes. 17 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: displays the results for all algorithms trained from scratch across all DSs, while [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Results for all algorithms with pre-trained weight. We plot the top-1 accuracy. 22 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: presents the aggregate results of pre-training across all algorithms and DSs. ResNet18 ResNet50 ResNet101 ViT ImageNet AugMix RandAug AutoAug UBNet PnD OccamNets GroupDRO BPA ADA ME-ADA SagNet L2D IRM CausIRL-M CausIRL-C CLIP-base CLIP-large InstructBLIP LLaVA-1.5 Phi-…
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Scratch Shapes3D result with small dataset size. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Scratch Shapes3D result with middle dataset size. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Scratch Shapes3d result with big dataset size. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Pretrain Shapes3d result with small dataset size. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Pretrain Shapes3d result with middle dataset size. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_13.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Pretrain Shapes3d result with big dataset size. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_14.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Scratch CelebA result with small dataset size. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_15.png]
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Scratch CelebA result with middle dataset size. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_16.png]
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Scratch CelebA result with big dataset size. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_17.png]
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Pretrain CelebA result with small dataset size. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_18.png]
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Pretrain CelebA result with middle dataset size. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_19.png]
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Pretrain CelebA result with big dataset size. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_20.png]
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Visualization on invariant feature learning. We visualize the top two algorithms, CLIP￾Large and ImageNet, along with the worst-performing algorithm. In this setup, ‘black hair’ is used to create SC, ‘smiling’ is used to generate LDD, and ‘straight hair’ is used to pr…
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Scratch vs. Pre-training. The setup is exactly the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_22.png]
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Scratch CelebA result with attributes generated from augmentation. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_23.png]
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Pretrain CelebA result with attributes generated from augmentation. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_24.png]
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Scratch CelebA results across cluster groups. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_25.png]
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Pretrain CelebA result across cluster groups. The setup is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_26.png]
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Figure 27. Figure 27: Hyperparameter Exploration for ImageNet. 34 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_27.png]
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Figure 28. Figure 28: Hyperparameter Exploration for AugMix. a) Results of RandAug (Scratch) on controlled datasets b) Results of RandAug (Pretrained) on controlled datasets c) Results of RandAug (Scratch) on real-world datasets d) Results of RandAug (Pretrained) on real-world datasets [P…
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Figure 29. Figure 29 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_29.png]
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Figure 30. Figure 30: Hyperparameter Exploration for UBNet. 36 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_30.png]
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Figure 31. Figure 31: Hyperparameter Exploration for OccamNets. 37 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_31.png]
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Figure 32. Figure 32: Hyperparameter Exploration for groupDRO. 38 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p038_32.png]
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Figure 33. Figure 33: Hyperparameter Exploration for BPA. a) Results of ADA (Scratch) on controlled datasets b) Results of ADA (Pretrained) on controlled datasets c) Results of ADA (Scratch) on real-world datasets d) Results of ADA (Pretrained) on real-world datasets [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figu…
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Figure 34. Figure 34 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p039_34.png]
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Figure 35. Figure 35: Hyperparameter Exploration for ME-ADA. 40 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p040_35.png]
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Figure 36. Figure 36: Hyperparameter Exploration for SagNet. 41 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p041_36.png]
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Figure 37. Figure 37: Hyperparameter Exploration for L2D. a) Results of IRM (Scratch) on controlled datasets b) Results of IRM (Pretrained) on controlled datasets c) Results of IRM (Scratch) on real-world datasets d) Results of IRM (Pretrained) on real-world datasets [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figu…
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Figure 38. Figure 38 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p042_38.png]
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Figure 39. Figure 39: Hyperparameter Exploration for CausIRL-M. 43 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_39.png]
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Figure 40. Figure 40: Hyperparameter Exploration for CausIRL-C. 44 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p044_40.png]

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