LANCE: Stress-testing Visual Models by Generating Language-guided
  Counterfactual Images
Authors: name: Viraj Prabhu, name: Sriram Yenamandra, name: Prithvijit Chattopadhyay, name: Judy Hoffman

We propose an automated algorithm to stress-test a trained visual model by
generating language-guided counterfactual test images (LANCE). Our method
leverages recent progress in large language modeling and text-based image
editing to augment an IID test set with a suite of diverse, realistic, and
challenging test images without altering model weights. We benchmark the
performance of a diverse set of pretrained models on our generated data and
observe significant and consistent performance drops. We further analyze model
sensitivity across different types of edits, and demonstrate its applicability
at surfacing previously unknown class-level model biases in ImageNet.