Algorithmic machine teaching studies the interaction between a teacher and a learner where the teacher selects labeled examples aiming at teaching a target hypothesis. In a quest to lower teaching complexity, several teaching models and complexity measures have been proposed for both the batch settings (e.g., worst-case, recursive, preference-based, and non-clashing models) and the sequential settings (e.g., local preference-based model). To better understand the connections between these models, we develop a novel framework that captures the teaching process via preference functions $\Sigma$. In our framework, each function $\sigma \in \Sigma$ induces a teacher-learner pair with teaching complexity as $TD(\sigma)$. We show that the above-mentioned teaching models are equivalent to specific types/families of preference functions. We analyze several properties of the teaching complexity parameter $TD(\sigma)$ associated with different families of the preference functions, e.g., comparison to the VC dimension of the hypothesis class and additivity/sub-additivity of $TD(\sigma)$ over disjoint domains. Finally, we identify preference functions inducing a novel family of sequential models with teaching complexity linear in the VC dimension: this is in contrast to the best-known complexity result for the batch models, which is quadratic in the VC dimension.

Contrastive representation learning has shown to be an effective way of learning representations from unlabeled data. However, much progress has been made in vision domains relying on data augmentations carefully designed using domain knowledge. In this work, we propose i-Mix, a simple yet effective regularization strategy for improving contrastive representation learning in both vision and non-vision domains. We cast contrastive learning as training a non-parametric classifier by assigning a unique virtual class to each data in a batch. Then, data instances are mixed in both the input and virtual label spaces, providing more augmented data during training. In experiments, we demonstrate that i-Mix consistently improves the quality of self-supervised representations across domains, resulting in significant performance gains on downstream tasks. Furthermore, we confirm its regularization effect via extensive ablation studies across model and dataset sizes.

Graph neural networks (GNNs) can process graphs of different sizes but their capacity to generalize across sizes is still not well understood. Size generalization is key to numerous GNN applications, from solving combinatorial optimization problems to learning in molecular biology. In such problems, obtaining labels and training on large graphs can be prohibitively expensive, but training on smaller graphs is possible. This paper puts forward the size-generalization question and characterizes important aspects of that problem theoretically and empirically. We show that even for very simple tasks, GNNs do not naturally generalize to graphs of larger size. Instead, their generalization performance is closely related to the distribution of patterns of connectivity and features and how that distribution changes from small to large graphs. Specifically, we show that in many cases, there are GNNs that can perfectly solve a task on small graphs but generalize poorly to large graphs and that these GNNs are encountered in practice. We then formalize size generalization as a domain-adaption problem and describe two learning setups where size generalization can be improved. First, as a self-supervised learning problem (SSL) over the target domain of large graphs. Second, as a semi-supervised learning problem when few samples are available in the target domain. We demonstrate the efficacy of these solutions on a diverse set of benchmark graph datasets.

Hello guys, you may know that Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence have become more and more important in this increasingly digital world. They are now providing a competitive edge to businesses like NetFlix's Movie recommendations. If you have just started in this field and looking for what to learn then I am going to share 5 essential Machine learning algorithms you can learn as a beginner. These essential algorithms form the basis of most common Machine learning projects and having a good knowledge of them will not only help you to understand the project and model quickly but also to change them as per your need. Machine learning by a simple word is the science or the field of making the computer learn like a human by feeding it with the data and without being programmed and it separate into two categories the first one is classification problems which the machine needs to classify between two objects or more like between human and animal and the second is regression problems which the machine need to produce an output based on a previous data.

In a proof-of-concept study, education and artificial intelligence researchers have demonstrated the use of a machine-learning model to predict how long individual museum visitors will engage with a given exhibit. The finding opens the door to a host of new work on improving user engagement with informal learning tools. "Education is an important part of the mission statement for most museums," says Jonathan Rowe, co-author of the study and a research scientist in North Carolina State University's Center for Educational Informatics (CEI). "The amount of time people spend engaging with an exhibit is used as a proxy for engagement and helps us assess the quality of learning experiences in a museum setting. It's not like school--you can't make visitors take a test."

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It's a challenge to learn a new language, especially once we're past 18 years old. But Duolingo, self-proclaimed as "the world's best way to learn a language" and seconded by reviewers at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, is set to change that with an assist from artificial intelligence (AI). Duolingo launched in 2011, and through a powerful mix of personalized learning, immediate feedback and gamification/rewards, it has become one of the most downloaded educational apps today. Let's take a look at how artificial intelligence helps the company deliver personalized language lessons to its 300 million users. Founded in Pittsburgh by Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Luis von Ahn, who is renowned for creating CAPTCHA, Duolingo's mission is to "make education free and accessible to everyone in the world."

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