Minimizing Statistical Bias with Queries.

Abstract

This report describes an exploration criterion that attempts to minimize the error of a learner by minimizing its estimated squared bias. The author describes experiments with locally-weighted regression on two simple kinematics problems, and observed that this "bias-only" approach outperforms the more common "variance-only" exploration approach, even in the presence of noise.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 14, 1995
Accession Number
ADA307061

Entities

People

  • David A. Cohn

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computations
  • Errors
  • Estimators
  • Gaussian Noise
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Learning
  • Machine Learning
  • Neural Networks
  • New York
  • Noise
  • Residuals
  • Statistical Sampling
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Robotics and Automation.