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Distributional Generalization

4 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Preetum Nakkiran et al. in Distributional Generalization: A New Kind of Generalization

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

Distributional Generalization is a type of generalization that roughly states that outputs of a classifier at train and test time are close as distributions, as opposed to close in just their average error. This behavior is not captured by classical generalization, which would only consider the average error and not the distribution of errors over the input domain.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

4 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

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2D Object Detection1
Distributional Reinforcement Learning1
Matrix Completion1
counterfactual1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Distributional Generalization: 2020 to 2024, peak 1 1 0 2020: 1 paper 2020 2021: 1 paper 2021 2022: 1 paper 2022 2023: 0 papers 2023 2024: 1 paper 2024
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (4 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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Categories archive 2025-07-28

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