Summary of Of Dice and Games: a Theory Of Generalized Boosting, by Marco Bressan et al.
Of Dice and Games: A Theory of Generalized Boosting
by Marco Bressan, Nataly Brukhim, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Emmanuel Esposito, Yishay Mansour, Shay Moran, Maximilian Thiessen
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Dec 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 This paper extends the theory of boosting to incorporate cost-sensitive and multi-objective losses, which are crucial in many real-world prediction problems where different types of errors are penalized differently. Cost-sensitive losses assign costs to the entries of a confusion matrix, while multi-objective losses track multiple cost-sensitive losses simultaneously. The authors develop a comprehensive theory of cost-sensitive and multi-objective boosting, providing a taxonomy of weak learning guarantees that distinguishes which guarantees are trivial, boostable, or intermediate. For binary classification, they establish a dichotomy: a weak learning guarantee is either trivial or boostable. In the multiclass setting, they describe a more intricate landscape of intermediate weak learning guarantees. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers develop new ways to improve machine learning models that predict different outcomes based on how important those outcomes are. This is important for tasks like medical diagnosis, where missing a serious condition can have severe consequences. The authors use a technique called boosting and apply it to two types of “loss” functions: one that assigns costs to mistakes based on their importance, and another that tries to balance multiple goals at once. They show that some guarantees about how well the model will perform are either easy or hard to achieve, while others fall in between. This work could lead to better models for real-world problems. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Boosting » Classification » Confusion matrix » Machine learning
