arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-06-29
Early Cue Precision Shapes Visual Shortcut Learning in Controlled Cue-Manipulation Benchmarks
Chanho Park, Woochan Lee, Janyeong Oh, Geongho Gong, Minshu Kim, Yeachan Kwak, et al.
Visual classifiers can achieve high matched-distribution accuracy while relying on low-level cues that fail under conflict or suppression. We test whether this failure is shaped by early cue precision: the reliability with which a low-level cue predicts the label during early lea…