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Buying Data of Unknown Quality: Statistical Information Procurement Auctions
Yuchen Hu, Martin J. Wainwright, Stephen Bates
We study statistical parameter estimation in the setting of data markets when providers differ in both provision costs and estimation-relevant data quality. We define a cost-per-in…
stat.ML2026
Residual-as-Teacher: Mitigating Bias Propagation in Student--Teacher Estimation
Kakei Yamamoto, Martin J. Wainwright
We study statistical estimation in a student--teacher setting, where predictions from a pre-trained teacher are used to guide a student model. A standard approach is to train the s…