Blaine Hoak
blainehoak.bsky.social
Blaine Hoak
@blainehoak.bsky.social
Ph.D. candidate in Computer Sciences @UWMadison advised by @pdmcdan | secure & trustworthy AI/ML | prev. Ph.D. Intern @Visa Research | she/her 🏳️‍🌈
So excited to announce that I have successfully passed my preliminary exam and am now a Ph.D. Candidate!!!!🥳🥳🥳
August 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reposted by Blaine Hoak
🪵🧵 Texture vs. shape. Blaine Hoak dives into real-world evidence of texture bias in vision models. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.10597 #SaTML25
April 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Our paper “Err on the Side of Texture: Texture Bias on Real Data” appeared at the IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML) back in April!

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2412.10597
Err on the Side of Texture: Texture Bias on Real Data
Bias significantly undermines both the accuracy and trustworthiness of machine learning models. To date, one of the strongest biases observed in image classification models is texture bias-where model...
arxiv.org
June 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hello world! Super excited to be on Bluesky 😄
June 27, 2023 at 10:58 PM