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| author | Holland, Matthew J. |
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| contents | Under losses which are potentially heavy-tailed, we consider the task of minimizing sums of the loss mean and standard deviation, without trying to accurately estimate the variance. By modifying a technique for variance-free robust mean estimation to fit our problem setting, we derive a simple learning procedure which can be easily combined with standard gradient-based solvers to be used in traditional machine learning workflows. Empirically, we verify that our proposed approach, despite its simplicity, performs as well or better than even the best-performing candidates derived from alternative criteria such as CVaR or DRO risks on a variety of datasets. |
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| spellingShingle | Robust variance-regularized risk minimization with concomitant scaling Holland, Matthew J. Machine Learning Under losses which are potentially heavy-tailed, we consider the task of minimizing sums of the loss mean and standard deviation, without trying to accurately estimate the variance. By modifying a technique for variance-free robust mean estimation to fit our problem setting, we derive a simple learning procedure which can be easily combined with standard gradient-based solvers to be used in traditional machine learning workflows. Empirically, we verify that our proposed approach, despite its simplicity, performs as well or better than even the best-performing candidates derived from alternative criteria such as CVaR or DRO risks on a variety of datasets. |
| title | Robust variance-regularized risk minimization with concomitant scaling |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11584 |