Summary of Scod: From Heuristics to Theory, by Vojtech Franc and Jakub Paplham and Daniel Prusa
SCOD: From Heuristics to Theory
by Vojtech Franc, Jakub Paplham, Daniel Prusa
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper addresses the Selective Classification in the presence of Out-of-Distribution data (SCOD) problem, where prediction models must abstain from predictions when faced with uncertain or out-of-distribution samples. The authors make three key contributions to SCOD: designing an optimal strategy that involves a Bayes classifier for in-distribution data and a selector represented as a stochastic linear classifier; establishing that the SCOD problem is not Probably Approximately Correct learnable without using both in-distribution and out-of-distribution data; and introducing POSCOD, a method for learning the optimal SCOD strategy from both an in-distribution data sample and an unlabeled mixture of in-distribution and out-of-distribution data. The authors demonstrate that their proposed method outperforms existing OOD methods in effectively addressing the SCOD problem. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about helping machines make better predictions when they’re not sure what’s happening. Sometimes, things don’t fit into categories, so models need to say “I’m not sure” instead of making a guess. The authors came up with new ways to solve this problem and tested them. They found that their methods worked better than other approaches. This is important because it can help machines make more accurate predictions in the future. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Classification
