Summary of Convergence Behavior Of An Adversarial Weak Supervision Method, by Steven An (1) and Sanjoy Dasgupta (1) ((1) University Of California et al.
Convergence Behavior of an Adversarial Weak Supervision Method
by Steven An, Sanjoy Dasgupta
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper explores Weak Supervision, a machine learning paradigm that relies on rules-of-thumb and minimal label supervision to label data. By leveraging this labeled data to train modern machine learning methods, the cost of acquiring large amounts of hand-labeled data can be reduced. The study focuses on combining these rules-of-thumb, falling into two camps: probabilistic modeling, exemplified by the Dawid-Skene model, and adversarial and game-theoretic approaches, such as Balsubramani-Freund’s work. The authors provide statistical results for the adversarial approach under log-loss, including characterizing the solution form, relating it to logistic regression, demonstrating consistency, and giving rates of convergence. In contrast, probabilistic approaches can fail to be consistent. Experimental results corroborate the theoretical findings. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper is about a new way to help computers learn from data without needing a lot of labeled examples. It’s called Weak Supervision, and it uses simple rules to label some of the data. This makes it easier to train machine learning models and saves time and money. The study looks at different ways to combine these simple rules and finds that one approach works well when using log-loss as an evaluation metric. The other approach can fail sometimes, but experimental results confirm the theoretical findings. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Logistic regression * Machine learning
