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Sample Efficient Learning of Predictors that Complement Humans
Mohammad-Amin Charusaie · Hussein Mozannar · David Sontag · Samira Samadi

Tue Jul 19 02:35 PM -- 02:40 PM (PDT) @ Hall F
in SA: Trustworthy Machine Learning »

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 accomplish this goal. A fundamental aspect of this setting is the need to learn complementary predictors that improve on the human's weaknesses rather than learning predictors optimized for average error. In this work, we provide the first theoretical analysis of the benefit of learning complementary predictors in expert deferral. To enable efficiently learning such predictors, we consider a family of consistent surrogate loss functions for expert deferral and analyze their theoretical properties. Finally, we design active learning schemes that require minimal amount of data of human expert predictions in order to learn accurate deferral systems.

Keywords: T: Social Aspects · SA: Trustworthy Machine Learning

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Mohammad-Amin Charusaie (Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems)
Hussein Mozannar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
David Sontag (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Samira Samadi (MPI-IS)

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