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A Meta-Analysis of Overfitting in Machine Learning

Rebecca Roelofs, Vaishaal Shankar, Benjamin Recht, Sara Fridovich-Keil, Moritz Hardt, John Miller, Ludwig Schmidt

Neural Information Processing Systems

In each competition, numerous practitioners repeatedly evaluated their progress against a holdout set that forms the basis of a public ranking availablethroughout the competition. Performance on a separate test set used only oncedetermined the final ranking.



ADebiasedMDIFeatureImportanceMeasurefor RandomForests

Neural Information Processing Systems

In particular, interpreting Random Forests (RFs) [2] and its variants [14, 28, 27, 29, 1, 12] has become an important area of research due to the wide ranging applications of RFs invarious scientific areas, such asgenome-wide association studies (GWAS)[7],gene expression microarray[13,23],andgeneregulatorynetworks[9].




1 ContextandMotivation

Neural Information Processing Systems

The coding rate can be accurately computed from finite samples of degenerate subspace-like distributions and can learn intrinsic representations in supervised, self-supervised, and unsupervised settings in a unified manner.



Teachable Reinforcement Learningvia Advice Distillation

Neural Information Processing Systems

Colorsdesignatesupervision used: shadesofblue = highleveladvice; red = lowleveladvice; black = oracledemonstrations; gray = shaped rewards. Figure 6: "Bestadvice" is OffsetAdvice.


30de9ece7cf3790c8c39ccff1a044209-Paper.pdf

Neural Information Processing Systems

One difficulty in using artificial agents for human-assistive applications lies in the challenge of accurately assisting with a person's goal(s). Existing methods tend to rely on inferring the human's goal, which is challenging when there are many potential goals or when the set of candidate goals is difficult to identify. We propose a new paradigm for assistance by instead increasing thehuman's ability tocontroltheir environment, and formalize this approach byaugmenting reinforcement learning withhuman empowerment.


The office block where AI 'doomers' gather to predict the apocalypse

The Guardian

In a building in central Berkeley, not far from the university campus, a group of modern-day Cassandras are looking into concerns around the latest AI models. In a building in central Berkeley, not far from the university campus, a group of modern-day Cassandras are looking into concerns around the latest AI models. The office block where AI'doomers' gather to predict the apocalypse On the other side of San Francisco bay from Silicon Valley, where the world's biggest technology companies tear towards superhuman artificial intelligence, looms a tower from which fearful warnings emerge. At 2150 Shattuck Avenue, in the heart of Berkeley, is the home of a group of modern-day Cassandras who rummage under the hood of cutting-edge AI models and predict what calamities may be unleashed on humanity - from AI dictatorships to robot coups. Here you can hear an AI expert express sympathy with an unnerving idea: San Francisco may be the new Wuhan, the Chinese city where Covid originated and wreaked havoc on the world.