Summary of Analysis Of Diagnostics (part Ii): Prevalence, Linear Independence, and Unsupervised Learning, by Paul N. Patrone et al.
Analysis of Diagnostics (Part II): Prevalence, Linear Independence, and Unsupervised Learning
by Paul N. Patrone, Raquel A. Binder, Catherine S. Forconi, Ann M. Moormann, Anthony J. Kearsley
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Probability (math.PR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper is part of a two-part series that explores the connection between prevalence, uncertainty quantification, and classification theory in machine learning. The first part established a duality between prevalence and relative conditional probability, allowing for the training of discriminative classifiers that yield uncertainty estimates in class labels. This approach also showed that certain discriminative and generative models are equivalent. In this second part, the authors extend these results to unsupervised learning by introducing linearly independent populations with different but unknown prevalence values. They identify an isomorphism between impure and pure population classifiers, leading to a nonlinear system of equations whose solution yields the prevalence values. The authors illustrate their methods using synthetic data and a research-use-only SARS-CoV-2 ELISA dataset. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about how machine learning can be used to understand and measure uncertainty. It’s like trying to figure out what’s inside a box without opening it – you can make some educated guesses based on what you know, but there will always be some doubt. The authors are exploring new ways to do this using math and computer science. They’re building on earlier work that showed how machine learning models can be used to estimate the likelihood of something being true or false. In this paper, they take it a step further by applying these ideas to unsupervised learning, where you don’t have any labels to help you figure out what’s going on. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Likelihood » Machine learning » Probability » Synthetic data » Unsupervised
