Teacher improves learning by selecting a training subset

Copyright 2018 by the author(s). We call a learner super-teachable if a teacher can trim down an iid training set while making the learner learn even better. We provide sharp super-teaching guarantees on two learners: the maximum likelihood estimator for the mean of a Gaussian, and the large margin...

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Main Authors: Ma, Y, Nowak, R, Rigollet, P, Zhang, X, Zhu, X
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137038

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