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Recent success in deep learning has partially been driven by training increasingly overparametrized networks on ever larger datasets. It is therefore natural to ask: how much of the data is superfluous, which examples are important for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Mansheej Paul , Surya Ganguli , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

We give a new consistent scoring function for structure learning of Bayesian networks. In contrast to traditional approaches to score-based structure learning, such as BDeu or MDL, the complexity penalty that we propose is data-dependent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Eliot Brenner , David Sontag

In machine learning, a question of great interest is understanding what examples are challenging for a model to classify. Identifying atypical examples ensures the safe deployment of models, isolates samples that require further human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Chirag Agarwal , Daniel D'souza , Sara Hooker

Overconfidence is a common issue for deep neural networks, limiting their deployment in real-world applications. To better estimate confidence, existing methods mostly focus on fully-supervised scenarios and rely on training labels. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Chen Li , Xiaoling Hu , Chao Chen

Data valuation plays a crucial role in machine learning. Existing data valuation methods, mainly focused on discriminative models, overlook generative models that have gained attention recently. In generative models, data valuation measures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiaxi Yang , Wenglong Deng , Benlin Liu , Yangsibo Huang , James Zou , Xiaoxiao Li

While the traditional formulation of machine learning tasks is in terms of performance on average, in practice we are often interested in how well a trained model performs on rare or difficult data points at test time. To achieve more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Matthew J. Holland , Toma Hamada

Study Objectives: Sleep stage scoring is performed manually by sleep experts and is prone to subjective interpretation of scoring rules with low intra- and interscorer reliability. Many automatic systems rely on few small-scale databases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Alexander Neergaard Olesen , Poul Jennum , Emmanuel Mignot , Helge B D Sorensen

Sample weighting is widely used in deep learning. A large number of weighting methods essentially utilize the learning difficulty of training samples to calculate their weights. In this study, this scheme is called difficulty-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Xiaoling Zhou , Ou Wu , Weiyao Zhu , Ziyang Liang

Motivated by the goals of dataset pruning and defect identification, a growing body of methods have been developed to score individual examples within a dataset. These methods, which we call "example difficulty scores", are typically used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Devin Kwok , Nikhil Anand , Jonathan Frankle , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite , David Rolnick

We introduce a method called TracIn that computes the influence of a training example on a prediction made by the model. The idea is to trace how the loss on the test point changes during the training process whenever the training example…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Garima Pruthi , Frederick Liu , Mukund Sundararajan , Satyen Kale

The mainstream AI community has seen a rise in large-scale open-source classifiers, often pre-trained on vast datasets and tested on standard benchmarks; however, users facing diverse needs and limited, expensive test data may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Nathaniel Dean , Dilip Sarkar

Data plays a pivotal role in the groundbreaking advancements in artificial intelligence. The quantitative analysis of data significantly contributes to model training, enhancing both the efficiency and quality of data utilization. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Haoru Tan , Sitong Wu , Xiuzhe Wu , Wang Wang , Bo Zhao , Zeke Xie , Gui-Song Xia , Xiaojuan Qi

Defect prediction is crucial for software quality assurance and has been extensively researched over recent decades. However, prior studies rarely focus on data complexity in defect prediction tasks, and even less on understanding the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Xiaohui Wan , Zheng Zheng , Fangyun Qin , Xuhui Lu

We give a new consistent scoring function for structure learning of Bayesian networks. In contrast to traditional approaches to scorebased structure learning, such as BDeu or MDL, the complexity penalty that we propose is data-dependent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Eliot Brenner , David Sontag

Unlike the more commonly analyzed ECG or PPG data for activity classification, heart rate time series data is less detailed, often noisier and can contain missing data points. Using the BigIdeasLab_STEP dataset, which includes heart rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Michael Beekhuizen , Arman Naseri , David Tax , Ivo van der Bilt , Marcel Reinders

We propose a probe for the analysis of deep learning architectures that is based on machine learning and approximation theoretical principles. Given a deep learning architecture and a training set, during or after training, the Sparsity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Ido Ben-Shaul , Shai Dekel

In this paper we present an exploratory research on quantifying the impact that data distribution has on the performance and evaluation of NLP models. We propose an automated framework that measures the data point distribution across 6…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Venelin Kovatchev , Matthew Lease

Deep Neural Networks can generalize despite being significantly overparametrized. Recent research has tried to examine this phenomenon from various view points and to provide bounds on the generalization error or measures predictive of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Parth Natekar , Manik Sharma

Training data influence estimation methods quantify the contribution of training documents to a model's output, making them a promising source of information for example-based explanations. As humans cannot interpret thousands of documents,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Loris Schoenegger , Benjamin Roth

Recent works have demonstrated that the sample complexity of gradient-based learning of single index models, i.e. functions that depend on a 1-dimensional projection of the input data, is governed by their information exponent. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-08 Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini , Denny Wu , Taiji Suzuki , Murat A. Erdogdu