Breiman's "Two Cultures" Revisited and Reconciled
Abstract
In a landmark paper published in 2001, Leo Breiman described the tense standoff between two cultures of data modeling: parametric statistical and algorithmic machine learning. The cultural division between these two statistical learning frameworks has been growing at a steady pace in recent years. What is the way forward? It has become blatantly obvious that this widening gap between "the two cultures" cannot be averted unless we find a way to blend them into a coherent whole. This article presents a solution by establishing a link between the two cultures. Through examples, we describe the challenges and potential gains of this new integrated statistical thinking.
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@article{arxiv.2005.13596,
title = {Breiman's "Two Cultures" Revisited and Reconciled},
author = {Subhadeep and Mukhopadhyay and Kaijun Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.13596},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
This paper celebrates the 70th anniversary of Statistical Machine Learning--- how far we've come, and how far we have to go. Keywords: Integrated statistical learning theory, Exploratory machine learning, Uncertainty prediction machine, ML-powered modern applied statistics, Information theory