FORML: Learning to Reweight Data for Fairness

Machine learning models are trained to minimize the mean loss for a single metric, and thus typically do not consider fairness and robustness. Neglecting such metrics in training can make these models prone to fairness violations when training data are imbalanced or test distributions differ. This work introduces Fairness Optimized Reweighting via Meta-Learning (FORML), a …

A Dense Material Segmentation Dataset for Indoor and Outdoor Scene Parsing

A key algorithm for understanding the world is material segmentation, which assigns a label (metal, glass, etc.) to each pixel. We find that a model trained on existing data underperforms in some settings and propose to address this with a large-scale dataset of 3.2 million dense segments on 44,560 indoor and outdoor images, which is …

Regularized Training of Nearest Neighbor Language Models

Including memory banks in a natural language processing architecture increases model capacity by equipping it with additional data at inference time. In this paper, we build upon kNN-LM, which uses a pre-trained language model together with an exhaustive kNN search through the training data (memory bank) to achieve state-of-the-art results. We investigate whether we can …

Benign, Tempered, or Catastrophic: A Taxonomy of Overfitting

The practical success of overparameterized neural networks has motivated the recent scientific study of interpolating methods, which perfectly fit their training data. Certain interpolating methods, including neural networks, can fit noisy training data without catastrophically bad test performance, in defiance of standard intuitions from statistical learning theory. Aiming to explain this, a body of recent …

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Last call: Stefan Krawcyzk’s ‘Mastering MLOps’ Live Cohort

Tweet Tweet Share Share Last Updated on August 19, 2022 Sponsored Post   This is your last chance to sign up for Stefan Krawczyk’s exclusive live cohort, starting next week (August 22nd). We already have students enrolled from Apple, Amazon, Spotify, Nubank, Workfusion, Glassdoor, ServiceNow, and more. Stefan Krawczky has spent the last 15+ years …