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Domain Adaptation-- 20 years of theory chasing practiceDomain Adaptation and Related Areas 20242024-11-12
Describes a 2005 NLP fix that represents each token by a pivot-word window embedding and then trains a linear classifier on Wall Street Journal labels that…
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Panel DiscussionDomain Adaptation and Related Areas 20242024-11-12
Panelists debate whether scaling plus architecture wins: larger pretrained models (CLIP/LLMs) empirically fix many classic domain-adaptation traps (e.g…
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Learning probability distributions; what can, what can't be doneModern Paradigms in Generalization Boot Camp 20242024-08-27
Shows that density estimation is impossible without prior knowledge: samples of size independent of domain size cannot distinguish distributions that are 0.5…
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Unprovability and Other Impossibility Results in Machine LearningProof Complexity and Meta-Mathematics 20232023-03-20
Shows that expectation-maximization learning of set families hinges on set-theory: existence of a finite compression scheme for finite-subset classes is…
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When Does Clustering Become Easy, and Should We Care About Other Cases?Learning, Algorithm Design and Beyond Worst-Case Analysis2016-11-14
Survey argues that many formal “clusterable” definitions let algorithms run fast but only under unrealistically strong gaps (e.g. epsilon-separateness ≈ 200×…
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