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Poster

Metric-Optimized Example Weights

Sen Zhao · Mahdi Milani Fard · Harikrishna Narasimhan · Maya Gupta

Pacific Ballroom #122

Keywords: [ Fairness ] [ Supervised Learning ] [ Transfer and Multitask Learning ]


Abstract:

Real-world machine learning applications often have complex test metrics, and may have training and test data that are not identically distributed. Motivated by known connections between complex test metrics and cost-weighted learning, we propose addressing these issues by using a weighted loss function with a standard loss, where the weights on the training examples are learned to optimize the test metric on a validation set. These metric-optimized example weights can be learned for any test metric, including black box and customized ones for specific applications. We illustrate the performance of the proposed method on diverse public benchmark datasets and real-world applications. We also provide a generalization bound for the method.

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