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Learning to Defer (L2D) enables a model to predict autonomously or defer to an expert, but prior work largely assumes flat label spaces. We study the first L2D setting with hierarchical multi-label decisions, motivated by medical-imaging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Joshua Strong , Pramit Saha , Emma Sun , Helen Higham , Alison Noble

We study post-hoc Learning to Defer (L2D) through the lens of ideal distributions: divergence-regularized reweightings of the data distribution under which a model attains low loss. We define deferral via the density-ratio between a model's…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-20 Alexander Soen , Ragnar Thobaben , Joakim Jaldén , Richard Nock

Learn-to-Defer is a paradigm that enables learning algorithms to work not in isolation but as a team with human experts. In this paradigm, we permit the system to defer a subset of its tasks to the expert. Although there are currently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Mohammad-Amin Charusaie , Samira Samadi

Sequence-to-sequence learning naturally has two directions. How to effectively utilize supervision signals from both directions? Existing approaches either require two separate models, or a multitask-learned model but with inferior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zaixiang Zheng , Hao Zhou , Shujian Huang , Jiajun Chen , Jingjing Xu , Lei Li

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…

Large Language Models excel in generative tasks but exhibit inefficiencies in structured text selection, particularly in extractive question answering. This challenge is magnified in resource-constrained environments, where deploying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yannis Montreuil , Shu Heng Yeo , Axel Carlier , Lai Xing Ng , Wei Tsang Ooi

Automated AI classifiers should be able to defer the prediction to a human decision maker to ensure more accurate predictions. In this work, we jointly train a classifier with a rejector, which decides on each data point whether the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Hussein Mozannar , Hunter Lang , Dennis Wei , Prasanna Sattigeri , Subhro Das , David Sontag

We study the statistical properties of learning to defer (L2D) to multiple experts. In particular, we address the open problems of deriving a consistent surrogate loss, confidence calibration, and principled ensembling of experts. Firstly,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-24 Rajeev Verma , Daniel Barrejón , Eric Nalisnick

Machine learning models are often implemented in cohort with humans in the pipeline, with the model having an option to defer to a domain expert in cases where it has low confidence in its inference. Our goal is to design mechanisms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Vijay Keswani , Matthew Lease , Krishnaram Kenthapadi

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

Transfer learning borrows knowledge from a source domain to facilitate learning in a target domain. Two primary issues to be addressed in transfer learning are what and how to transfer. For a pair of domains, adopting different transfer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Ying Wei , Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

A learning-to-defer (L2D) system decides, for each input, whether to predict on its own or to hand it to one of several available experts. The very well established recipe trains classifier and router jointly by treating the $K$ classes and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Yannis Montreuil , Axel Carlier , Lai Xing Ng , Wei Tsang Ooi

Learning with rejection (LWR) allows development of machine learning systems with the ability to discard low confidence decisions generated by a prediction model. That is, just like human experts, LWR allows machine models to abstain from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Amina Asif , Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar Minhas

Current state-of-the-art machine translation systems are based on encoder-decoder architectures, that first encode the input sequence, and then generate an output sequence based on the input encoding. Both are interfaced with an attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Maha Elbayad , Laurent Besacier , Jakob Verbeek

Learning to Reject (LtR) frameworks allow ML models to abstain from uncertain predictions and promote user trust. However, since current LtR strategies focus solely on predictive performance, they completely neglect explanation quality.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luca Stradiotti , Dario Pesenti , Stefano Teso , Jesse Davis

Machine learning models always make a prediction, even when it is likely to be inaccurate. This behavior should be avoided in many decision support applications, where mistakes can have severe consequences. Albeit already studied in 1970,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Kilian Hendrickx , Lorenzo Perini , Dries Van der Plas , Wannes Meert , Jesse Davis

The ubiquity of AI leads to situations where humans and AI work together, creating the need for learning-to-defer algorithms that determine how to partition tasks between AI and humans. We work to improve learning-to-defer algorithms when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Naveen Raman , Michael Yee

Learning to defer (L2D) enables human-AI cooperation by deciding when an AI system should act autonomously or defer to a human expert. Existing L2D methods, however, assume static human performance, contradicting well-established findings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zheng Zhang , Cuong C. Nguyen , David Rosewarne , Kevin Wells , Gustavo Carneiro

Learning algorithms can be significantly improved by routing complex or uncertain inputs to specialized experts, balancing accuracy with computational cost. This approach, known as learning to defer, is essential in domains like natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Corinna Cortes , Anqi Mao , Mehryar Mohri , Yutao Zhong

Practical Imitation Learning (IL) systems rely on large human demonstration datasets for successful policy learning. However, challenges lie in maintaining the quality of collected data and addressing the suboptimal nature of some…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Sachit Kuhar , Shuo Cheng , Shivang Chopra , Matthew Bronars , Danfei Xu