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Data valuation is a class of techniques for quantitatively assessing the value of data for applications like pricing in data marketplaces. Existing data valuation methods define a value for a discrete dataset. However, in many use cases,…

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Data valuation -- quantifying the contribution of individual data sources to certain predictive behaviors of a model -- is of great importance to enhancing the transparency of machine learning and designing incentive systems for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Zhihong Liu , Hoang Anh Just , Xiangyu Chang , Xi Chen , Ruoxi Jia

The Shapley value has been proposed as a solution to many applications in machine learning, including for equitable valuation of data. Shapley values are computationally expensive and involve the entire dataset. The query for a point's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Lauren Watson , Rayna Andreeva , Hao-Tsung Yang , Rik Sarkar

Quantifying the value of data within a machine learning workflow can play a pivotal role in making more strategic decisions in machine learning initiatives. The existing Shapley value based frameworks for data valuation in machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Ayush K Tarun , Vikram S Chundawat , Murari Mandal , Hong Ming Tan , Bowei Chen , Mohan Kankanhalli

Shapley-based data valuation provides a principled way to quantify the contribution of training data, but its high computational cost makes it impractical in dynamic settings where tasks and training players evolve. Existing methods treat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xuan Yang , Hsi-Wen Chen , Ming-Syan Chen , Jian Pei

Quantifying the importance of each training point to a learning task is a fundamental problem in machine learning and the estimated importance scores have been leveraged to guide a range of data workflows such as data summarization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Ruoxi Jia , Fan Wu , Xuehui Sun , Jiacen Xu , David Dao , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ce Zhang , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Understanding the decision-making process of machine learning models is crucial for ensuring trustworthy machine learning. Data Shapley, a landmark study on data valuation, advances this understanding by assessing the contribution of each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Huaiguang Cai

The Shapley value (SV) has emerged as a promising method for data valuation. However, computing or estimating the SV is often computationally expensive. To overcome this challenge, Jia et al. (2019) propose an advanced SV estimation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-23 Jiachen T. Wang , Ruoxi Jia

Data selection has emerged as a crucial downstream application of data valuation. While existing data valuation methods have shown promise in selection tasks, the theoretical foundations and full potential of using data values for selection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Hongliang Chi , Qiong Wu , Zhengyi Zhou , Jonathan Light , Emily Dodwell , Yao Ma

Fair credit assignment is essential in various machine learning (ML) applications, and Shapley values have emerged as a valuable tool for this purpose. However, in critical ML applications such as data valuation and feature attribution, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Pranoy Panda , Siddharth Tandon , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Data valuation is increasingly used in machine learning (ML) to decide the fair compensation for data owners and identify valuable or harmful data for improving ML models. Cooperative game theory-based data valuation, such as Data Shapley,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kieu Thao Nguyen Pham , Rachael Hwee Ling Sim , Quoc Phong Nguyen , See Kiong Ng , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Data valuation using Shapley value has emerged as a prevalent research domain in machine learning applications. However, it is a challenge to address the role of order in data cooperation as most research lacks such discussion. To tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Jie Liu , Peizheng Wang , Chao Wu

Shapley values are widely used for model-agnostic data valuation and feature attribution, yet they implicitly assume contributors are interchangeable. This can be problematic when contributors are dependent (e.g., reused/augmented data or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Kiljae Lee , Ziqi Liu , Weijing Tang , Yuan Zhang

Rigorous valuation of individual data sources is critical for fair compensation in data markets, informed data acquisition, and transparent development of ML/AI models. Classical Data Shapley (DS) provides a essential axiomatic framework…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xi Zheng , Yinghui Huang , Xiangyu Chang , Ruoxi Jia , Yong Tan

Quality data is a fundamental contributor to success in statistics and machine learning. If a statistical assessment or machine learning leads to decisions that create value, data contributors may want a share of that value. This paper…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Eric Bax

We introduce a new Shapley value approach for global sensitivity analysis and machine learning explainability. The method is based on the first-order partial derivatives of the underlying function. The computational complexity of the method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hui Duan , Giray Ökten

Federated learning paradigm to utilize datasets across multiple data providers. In FL, cross-silo data providers often hesitate to share their high-quality dataset unless their data value can be fairly assessed. Shapley value (SV) has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Shuyue Wei , Yongxin Tong , Zimu Zhou , Tianran He , Yi Xu

Attribution scores can be applied in data management to quantify the contribution of individual items to conclusions from the data, as part of the explanation of what led to these conclusions. In Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Leopoldo Bertossi , Benny Kimelfeld , Ester Livshits , Mikaël Monet

We investigate the data distribution valuation problem, which aims to quantify the values of data distributions from their samples. This is a recently proposed problem that is related to but different from classical data valuation and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Cuong N. Nguyen , Cuong V. Nguyen

Interpretable machine learning has been focusing on explaining final models that optimize performance. The current state-of-the-art is the Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) that locally explains variable impact on individual predictions,…