Generalizing to Unseen Disaster Events: A Causal View

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10120v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:33:47 GMT
• Title: Generalizing to Unseen Disaster Events: A Causal View
• Authors: Philipp Seeberger, Steffen Freisinger, Tobias Bocklet, Korbinian Riedhammer,
• Abstract summary: We propose a method to reduce event- and domain-related biases, enhancing generalization to future events.<n>Our approach outperforms multiple baselines by up to +1.9% F1.
• Score: 17.9089265435157
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Due to the rapid growth of social media platforms, these tools have become essential for monitoring information during ongoing disaster events. However, extracting valuable insights requires real-time processing of vast amounts of data. A major challenge in existing systems is their exposure to event-related biases, which negatively affects their ability to generalize to emerging events. While recent advancements in debiasing and causal learning offer promising solutions, they remain underexplored in the disaster event domain. In this work, we approach bias mitigation through a causal lens and propose a method to reduce event- and domain-related biases, enhancing generalization to future events. Our approach outperforms multiple baselines by up to +1.9% F1 and significantly improves a PLM-based classifier across three disaster classification tasks.

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