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arxivcs.CVcs.LG2026-07-05

The Good, the Bad, and the Brittle: Benchmarking Robustness and Generalisation of Histopathology Foundation Models

Dhyey Yajnik, Amina Asif, Fayyaz Minhas

How robust and generalisable are pathology foundation models and have their scaling limites been reached? We benchmarked twelve pathology foundation models (PFMs) and ResNet baselines using our Robustness Evaluation and Enhancement Toolbox (REET) across eleven clinically realistic perturbations and a dissimilarity-driven Non-Redundant K-fold validation (NR-Kfold) protocol. We introduce a Perturbation Performance Index (PPI) to summarise accuracy trends under controlled perturbation sweeps and analyse robustness scaling with parameter count. We show that PFMs consistently outperform CNNs in both robustness and domain generalisation, yet model scaling shows diminishing returns: mid-sized models such (UNI2/Virchow-2 etc.) achieve comparable or greater resilience than larger systems. NR-Kfold analysis further reveals systematic accuracy loss and increased variability when training-test similarity is broken, underscoring the need for explicit distribution-shift evaluation. These findings suggest that the next generation of pathology foundation models must prioritise data quality, multimodality information and domain alignment over parameter count to achieve genuine clinical reliability.

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