Summary of Provable Weak-to-strong Generalization Via Benign Overfitting, by David X. Wu et al.
Provable Weak-to-Strong Generalization via Benign Overfitting
by David X. Wu, Anant Sahai
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Oct 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 investigates the concept of “weak-to-strong generalization” in machine learning, where a weak teacher supervises a strong student with imperfect pseudolabels. The authors theoretically analyze this paradigm in a stylized model and identify two asymptotic phases: successful generalization and random guessing. They also prove a tight lower tail inequality for the maximum of correlated Gaussians, which has potential applications in multiclass classification. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper looks at how a weak teacher can help a strong student learn better by giving them imperfect labels. The authors use a special model to study this idea and find that there are two main phases: when the student learns well and when they just guess randomly. They also show a new way to calculate the maximum of related Gaussian distributions, which could be useful for learning multiple categories at once. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Generalization » Machine learning
