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Linear Models, Variable Selection, Artificial Intelligence

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Variable selection in linear regression models has been a problem since hypothesis testing began. Which variables to include or exclude from a model is not an easy task. Techniques such as Forward, Back ward, Stepwise Regression sequentially add or delete variables from a model. Penalized likelihood methods such as AIC, BIC, etc. seek to choose variables that have a significant contribution to the likelihood. Penalized sum of square methods such as LASSO and Elastic Net have been used to penalize small coefficients to only allow variables with large coefficients in the model. This work introduces an Artificial Intelligence approach to model selection where an ANN is trained to determine the significance of the variables based on OLS estimates. A simulation study shows the accuracy across various sample sizes and variances. Furthermore, a simulation study is conducted to compare the performance of the approach against Forward, Backward, AIC, BIC and LASSO. The approach is illustrated using a dataset from the World Health Organization regarding Life Expectancy. A github link is provided to the pretrained ANN that can handle up to 100 predictor variables, the original WHO dataset and the subset used in this work.


SLaM: Student-Label Mixing for Distillation with Unlabeled Examples

Neural Information Processing Systems

Knowledge distillation with unlabeled examples is a powerful training paradigm for generating compact and lightweight student models in applications where the amount of labeled data is limited but one has access to a large pool of unlabeled data. In this setting, a large teacher model generates "soft" pseudo-labels for the unlabeled dataset which are then used for training the student model. Despite its success in a wide variety of applications, a shortcoming of this approach is that the teacher's pseudo-labels are often noisy, leading to impaired student performance. In this paper, we present a principled method for knowledge distillation with unlabeled examples that we call Student-Label Mixing (SLaM) and we show that it consistently improves over prior approaches by evaluating it on several standard benchmarks. Finally, we show that SLaM comes with theoretical guarantees; along the way we give an algorithm improving the best-known sample complexity for learning halfspaces with margin under random classification noise, and provide the first convergence analysis for so-called "forward loss-adjustment" methods.


Appendix

Neural Information Processing Systems

We experiment with 8 implementations of MoCaD, i.e. two different calibrators combined with four different ensembling strategies as the same as in previous experiments. For Learned-Mixin, the entropy term weight is set to the value suggested by [1]. We run each experiment five times and report the mean scores and the standard deviations. For the Dirichlet calibrator, we use the same configurationasinFEVER. Experimental Results Table 2 shows the experimental result on image classification.



Mitigating Reward Overoptimization via Lightweight Uncertainty Estimation

Neural Information Processing Systems

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has been pivotal in aligning Large Language Models with human values but often suffers from overopti-mization due to its reliance on a proxy reward model.