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We propose a decentralized learning algorithm over a general social network. The algorithm leaves the training data distributed on the mobile devices while utilizing a peer to peer model aggregation method. The proposed algorithm allows…

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Learning to Defer (L2D) improves AI reliability in decision-critical environments by training AI to either make its own prediction or defer the decision to a human expert. A key challenge is adapting to unseen experts at test time, whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Joshua Strong , Pramit Saha , Yasin Ibrahim , Cheng Ouyang , Alison Noble

In the Learning to Defer (L2D) framework, a prediction model can either make a prediction or defer it to an expert, as determined by a rejector. Current L2D methods train the rejector to decide whether to reject the {\em entire prediction},…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-10 Sahana Rayan , Ambuj Tewari

One of the goals of learning algorithms is to complement and reduce the burden on human decision makers. The expert deferral setting wherein an algorithm can either predict on its own or defer the decision to a downstream expert helps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Mohammad-Amin Charusaie , Hussein Mozannar , David Sontag , Samira Samadi

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems play an increasingly prominent role in human decision-making, challenges surface in the realm of human-AI interactions. One challenge arises from the suboptimal AI policies due to the inadequate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-22 Guanting Chen , Xiaocheng Li , Chunlin Sun , Hanzhao Wang

This paper addresses the critical data scarcity that hinders the practical deployment of learning to defer (L2D) systems to the population. We introduce a context-aware, semi-supervised framework that uses meta-learning to generate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Nilesh Ramgolam , Gustavo Carneiro , Hsiang-Ting Chen

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) are machine learning models that improve interpretability by grounding their predictions on human-understandable concepts, allowing for targeted interventions in their decision-making process. However, when…

Federated learning's poor performance in the presence of heterogeneous data remains one of the most pressing issues in the field. Personalized federated learning departs from the conventional paradigm in which all clients employ the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Mengen Luo , Ercan Engin Kuruoglu

We use the PAC-Bayesian theory for the setting of learning-to-optimize. To the best of our knowledge, we present the first framework to learn optimization algorithms with provable generalization guarantees (PAC-Bayesian bounds) and explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Michael Sucker , Jalal Fadili , Peter Ochs

Federated learning is a distributed and privacy-preserving approach to train a statistical model collaboratively from decentralized data of different parties. However, when datasets of participants are not independent and identically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Li Ju , Tianru Zhang , Salman Toor , Andreas Hellander

The learning to defer (L2D) framework has the potential to make AI systems safer. For a given input, the system can defer the decision to a human if the human is more likely than the model to take the correct action. We study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rajeev Verma , Eric Nalisnick

In human-AI collaboration, a central challenge is deciding whether the AI should handle a task, be deferred to a human expert, or be addressed through collaborative effort. Existing Learning to Defer approaches typically make binary choices…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chengbo He , Bochao Zou , Junliang Xing , Jiansheng Chen , Yuanchun Shi , Huimin Ma

We introduce a new framework for studying meta-learning methods using PAC-Bayesian theory. Its main advantage over previous work is that it allows for more flexibility in how the transfer of knowledge between tasks is realized. For previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Hossein Zakerinia , Amin Behjati , Christoph H. Lampert

The increasing reliance on numerical methods for controlling dynamical systems and training machine learning models underscores the need to devise algorithms that dependably and efficiently navigate complex optimization landscapes.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Andrea Martin , Luca Furieri

With the development of Human-AI Collaboration in Classification (HAI-CC), integrating users and AI predictions becomes challenging due to the complex decision-making process. This process has three options: 1) AI autonomously classifies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Zheng Zhang , Wenjie Ai , Kevin Wells , David Rosewarne , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro

Federated learning is a decentralized and privacy-preserving technique that enables multiple clients to collaborate with a server to learn a global model without exposing their private data. However, the presence of statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Shiyu Liu , Shaogao Lv , Dun Zeng , Zenglin Xu , Hui Wang , Yue Yu

Model selection is a problem that has occupied machine learning researchers for a long time. Recently, its importance has become evident through applications in deep learning. We propose an agreement-based learning framework that prevents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Emmanouil Antonios Platanios

This paper considers a distributed adaptive optimization problem, where all agents only have access to their local cost functions with a common unknown parameter, whereas they mean to collaboratively estimate the true parameter and find the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Yaqun Yang , Jinlong Lei , Guanghui Wen , Yiguang Hong

We demonstrate that a wide array of machine learning algorithms are specific instances of one single paradigm: reciprocal learning. These instances range from active learning over multi-armed bandits to self-training. We show that all these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-05 Julian Rodemann , Christoph Jansen , Georg Schollmeyer

We introduce a unified probabilistic framework for solving sequential decision making problems ranging from Bayesian optimisation to contextual bandits and reinforcement learning. This is accomplished by a probabilistic model-based approach…