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| author | Zhou, Hang Mueller, Jonas Kumar, Mayank Wang, Jane-Ling Lei, Jing |
| author_facet | Zhou, Hang Mueller, Jonas Kumar, Mayank Wang, Jane-Ling Lei, Jing |
| contents | Noise plagues many numerical datasets, where the recorded values in the data may fail to match the true underlying values due to reasons including: erroneous sensors, data entry/processing mistakes, or imperfect human estimates. We consider general regression settings with covariates and a potentially corrupted response whose observed values may contain errors. By accounting for various uncertainties, we introduced veracity scores that distinguish between genuine errors and natural data fluctuations, conditioned on the available covariate information in the dataset. We propose a simple yet efficient filtering procedure for eliminating potential errors, and establish theoretical guarantees for our method. We also contribute a new error detection benchmark involving 5 regression datasets with real-world numerical errors (for which the true values are also known). In this benchmark and additional simulation studies, our method identifies incorrect values with better precision/recall than other approaches. |
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| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2023 |
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| spellingShingle | Detecting Errors in a Numerical Response via any Regression Model Zhou, Hang Mueller, Jonas Kumar, Mayank Wang, Jane-Ling Lei, Jing Machine Learning Noise plagues many numerical datasets, where the recorded values in the data may fail to match the true underlying values due to reasons including: erroneous sensors, data entry/processing mistakes, or imperfect human estimates. We consider general regression settings with covariates and a potentially corrupted response whose observed values may contain errors. By accounting for various uncertainties, we introduced veracity scores that distinguish between genuine errors and natural data fluctuations, conditioned on the available covariate information in the dataset. We propose a simple yet efficient filtering procedure for eliminating potential errors, and establish theoretical guarantees for our method. We also contribute a new error detection benchmark involving 5 regression datasets with real-world numerical errors (for which the true values are also known). In this benchmark and additional simulation studies, our method identifies incorrect values with better precision/recall than other approaches. |
| title | Detecting Errors in a Numerical Response via any Regression Model |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16583 |