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most citedReconciling modern machine learning practice and the bias-variance trade-off

1.6k citations · 4.2k across the 71 of their papers we have counts for

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76 papers

cs.LG2025

Dimension lower bounds for linear approaches to function approximation

Daniel Hsu

This short note presents a linear algebraic approach to proving dimension lower bounds for linear methods that solve function approximation problems. The basic argument has a…

cs.LG2021★ 10 cited

Bayesian decision-making under misspecified priors with applications to meta-learning

Max Simchowitz, Christopher Tosh, Akshay Krishnamurthy +4

Thompson sampling and other Bayesian sequential decision-making algorithms are among the most popular approaches to tackle explore/exploit trade-offs in (contextual) bandits. The c…

econ.GN2020★ 1 cited

Biased Programmers? Or Biased Data? A Field Experiment in Operationalizing AI Ethics

Bo Cowgill, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Samuel Deng +3

Why do biased predictions arise? What interventions can prevent them? We evaluate 8.2 million algorithmic predictions of math performance from 400 AI engineers, each of wh…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

Detecting Foodborne Illness Complaints in Multiple Languages Using English Annotations Only

Ziyi Liu, Giannis Karamanolakis, Daniel Hsu +1

Health departments have been deploying text classification systems for the early detection of foodborne illness complaints in social media documents such as Yelp restaurant reviews…

cs.CL2020

Cross-Lingual Text Classification with Minimal Resources by Transferring a Sparse Teacher

Giannis Karamanolakis, Daniel Hsu, Luis Gravano

Cross-lingual text classification alleviates the need for manually labeled documents in a target language by leveraging labeled documents from other languages. Existing approaches…

math.ST2020★ 5 cited

On the proliferation of support vectors in high dimensions

Daniel Hsu, Vidya Muthukumar, Ji Xu

The support vector machine (SVM) is a well-established classification method whose name refers to the particular training examples, called support vectors, that determine the maxim…