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The Costs of Pretending That There Are Data-Generating Probability Distributions in the Social World
Benedikt Höltgen, Robert C. Williamson
Machine Learning research, including work promoting fair or equitable algorithms, often relies on the concept of a data-generating probability distribution. The standard presumptio…
cs.LG2024
Geometry and Stability of Supervised Learning Problems
Facundo Mémoli, Brantley Vose, Robert C. Williamson
We introduce a notion of distance between supervised learning problems, which we call the Risk distance. This distance, inspired by optimal transport, facilitates stability results…