Dataset shift in machine learning /
Quiñonero-Candela, Joaquin.
Dataset shift is a common problem in predictive modeling that occurs when the joint distribution of inputs and outputs differs between training and test stages. Covariate shift, a particular case of dataset shift, occurs when only the input distribution changes. Dataset shift is present in most practical applications, for reasons ranging from the bias introduced by experimental design to the irreproducibility of the testing conditions at training time. (An example is -email spam filtering, which may fail to recognize spam that differs in form from the spam the automatic filter has been built on.) Despite this, and despite the attention given to the apparently similar problems of semi-supervised learning and active learning, dataset shift has received relatively little attention in the machine learning community until recently. This volume offers an overview of current efforts to deal with dataset and covariate shift. The chapters offer a mathematical and philosophical introduction to the problem, place dataset shift in relationship to transfer learning, transduction, local learning, active learning, and semi-supervised learning, provide theoretical views of dataset and covariate shift (including decision theoretic and Bayesian perspectives), and present algorithms for covariate shift. Contributors [cut for catalog if necessary]Shai Ben-David, Steffen Bickel, Karsten Borgwardt, Michael Bruckner, David Corfield, Amir Globerson, Arthur Gretton, Lars Kai Hansen, Matthias Hein, Jiayuan Huang, Choon Hui Teo, Takafumi Kanamori, Klaus-Robert Muller, Sam Roweis, Neil Rubens, Tobias Scheffer, Marcel Schmittfull, Bernhard Scholkopf Hidetoshi Shimodaira, Alex Smola, Amos Storkey, Masashi Sugiyama.
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Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; I - Introduction to Dataset Shift; 1 - When Training and Test Sets Are Different: Characterizing Learning Transfer; 2 - Projection and Projectability; II - Theoretical Views on Dataset and Covariate Shift; 3 - Binary Classi cation under Sample Selection Bias; 4 - On Bayesian Transduction: Implications for the Covariate Shift Problem; 5 - On the Training/Test Distributions Gap: A Data Representation Learning Framework; III - Algorithms for Covariate Shift; 6 - Geometry of Covariate Shift with Applications to Active Learning
7 - A Conditional Expectation Approach to Model Selection and Active Learning under Covariate Shift 8 - Covariate Shift by Kernel Mean Matching; 9 - Discriminative Learning under Covariate Shift with a Single Optimization Problem; 10 - An Adversarial View of Covariate Shift and a Minimax Approach; IV - Discussion; 11 - Author Comments; References; Notation and Symbols; Contributors; Index
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Dataset shift is a common problem in predictive modeling that occurs when the joint distribution of inputs and outputs differs between training and test stages. Covariate shift, a particular case of dataset shift, occurs when only the input distribution changes. Dataset shift is present in most practical applications, for reasons ranging from the bias introduced by experimental design to the irreproducibility of the testing conditions at training time. (An example is -email spam filtering, which may fail to recognize spam that differs in form from the spam the automatic filter has been built on.) Despite this, and despite the attention given to the apparently similar problems of semi-supervised learning and active learning, dataset shift has received relatively little attention in the machine learning community until recently. This volume offers an overview of current efforts to deal with dataset and covariate shift. The chapters offer a mathematical and philosophical introduction to the problem, place dataset shift in relationship to transfer learning, transduction, local learning, active learning, and semi-supervised learning, provide theoretical views of dataset and covariate shift (including decision theoretic and Bayesian perspectives), and present algorithms for covariate shift. Contributors [cut for catalog if necessary]Shai Ben-David, Steffen Bickel, Karsten Borgwardt, Michael Bruckner, David Corfield, Amir Globerson, Arthur Gretton, Lars Kai Hansen, Matthias Hein, Jiayuan Huang, Choon Hui Teo, Takafumi Kanamori, Klaus-Robert Muller, Sam Roweis, Neil Rubens, Tobias Scheffer, Marcel Schmittfull, Bernhard Scholkopf Hidetoshi Shimodaira, Alex Smola, Amos Storkey, Masashi Sugiyama.
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