Title
Adaptive Sampling For Stochastic Risk-Averse Learning
Abstract
In high-stakes machine learning applications, it is crucial to not only perform well on average, but also when restricted to difficult examples. To address this, we consider the problem of training models in a risk-averse manner. We propose an adaptive sampling algorithm for stochastically optimizing the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) of a loss distribution, which measures its performance on the ff fraction of most difficult examples. We use a distributionally robust formulation of the CVaR to phrase the problem as a zero-sum game between two players, and solve it efficiently using regret minimization. Our approach relies on sampling from structured Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs), which enables scaling it to large data sets. Finally, we empirically demonstrate its effectiveness on large-scale convex and non-convex learning tasks.
Year
Venue
DocType
2020
ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (NEURIPS 2020)
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
33
1049-5258
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sebastian Curi143.54
Kfir Y. Levy2728.77
Stefanie Jegelka379246.31
Andreas Krause45822368.37