Learning to Defer to a Population: A Meta-Learning Approach

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Autori principali: Tailor, Dharmesh, Patra, Aditya, Verma, Rajeev, Manggala, Putra, Nalisnick, Eric
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Tailor, Dharmesh
Patra, Aditya
Verma, Rajeev
Manggala, Putra
Nalisnick, Eric
author_facet Tailor, Dharmesh
Patra, Aditya
Verma, Rajeev
Manggala, Putra
Nalisnick, Eric
contents The learning to defer (L2D) framework allows autonomous systems to be safe and robust by allocating difficult decisions to a human expert. All existing work on L2D assumes that each expert is well-identified, and if any expert were to change, the system should be re-trained. In this work, we alleviate this constraint, formulating an L2D system that can cope with never-before-seen experts at test-time. We accomplish this by using meta-learning, considering both optimization- and model-based variants. Given a small context set to characterize the currently available expert, our framework can quickly adapt its deferral policy. For the model-based approach, we employ an attention mechanism that is able to look for points in the context set that are similar to a given test point, leading to an even more precise assessment of the expert's abilities. In the experiments, we validate our methods on image recognition, traffic sign detection, and skin lesion diagnosis benchmarks.
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spellingShingle Learning to Defer to a Population: A Meta-Learning Approach
Tailor, Dharmesh
Patra, Aditya
Verma, Rajeev
Manggala, Putra
Nalisnick, Eric
Machine Learning
The learning to defer (L2D) framework allows autonomous systems to be safe and robust by allocating difficult decisions to a human expert. All existing work on L2D assumes that each expert is well-identified, and if any expert were to change, the system should be re-trained. In this work, we alleviate this constraint, formulating an L2D system that can cope with never-before-seen experts at test-time. We accomplish this by using meta-learning, considering both optimization- and model-based variants. Given a small context set to characterize the currently available expert, our framework can quickly adapt its deferral policy. For the model-based approach, we employ an attention mechanism that is able to look for points in the context set that are similar to a given test point, leading to an even more precise assessment of the expert's abilities. In the experiments, we validate our methods on image recognition, traffic sign detection, and skin lesion diagnosis benchmarks.
title Learning to Defer to a Population: A Meta-Learning Approach
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02683