Summary of Rethinking Knowledge Transfer in Learning Using Privileged Information, by Danil Provodin et al.
Rethinking Knowledge Transfer in Learning Using Privileged Information
by Danil Provodin, Bram van den Akker, Christina Katsimerou, Maurits Kaptein, Mykola Pechenizkiy
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper critically examines the assumptions underlying existing theoretical analyses on learning using privileged information (LUPI). The authors argue that there is little theoretical justification for LUPI’s ability to transfer knowledge. They analyze various LUPI methods and reveal that apparent improvements in empirical risk may not stem from PI, but instead result from dataset anomalies or modifications in model design misguidedly attributed to PI. Experiments across a wide range of application domains demonstrate the failure of state-of-the-art LUPI approaches to effectively transfer knowledge from PI. The authors advocate for caution when working with PI to avoid unintended inductive biases. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how we can use extra information during training, called privileged information (PI), to make our machine learning models better. But, surprisingly, they find that there’s no real evidence that using PI actually works. They think this is because people have been misinterpreting the results of previous studies or attributing improvements to PI when it’s really just changes in how the model is designed. The authors do some experiments and show that even the best methods for using PI don’t really work as well as we thought. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning
