Bayes Seminar: David Wolpert [CCM]

America/New_York
3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute (162 5th Avenue)

3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

162 5th Avenue

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Description

Discussion Lead: David Wolpert [CCM]

Topic: Want to use cross-validation? Use stacking instead

Abstract:  Cross-validation is perhaps the most commonly used technique in


machine learning and statistics. Indeed, it can be viewed as a formalization of
the scientific method. Cross-validation is, at its core, a winner-take-all
meta-supervised learning algorithm, run over a meta-data set whose input space is the set of 
predictions by all candidate algorithms on held-out points, and whose output is the
associated truths in those held-out points. Stacking is the simple idea to replace
cross-validation’s winner-take-all algorithm with a more sophisticate learning algorithm. 
In this talk I review some of the experimental demonstrations of stacking’s power, 
in domains ranging from supervised learning to unsupervised learning to Monte Carlo
integral estimation to community detection in networks.  

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