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Everything old is new again: A multi-view learning approach to learning using privileged information and distillation

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 نشر من قبل Weiran Wang
 تاريخ النشر 2019
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We adopt a multi-view approach for analyzing two knowledge transfer settings---learning using privileged information (LUPI) and distillation---in a common framework. Under reasonable assumptions about the complexities of hypothesis spaces, and being optimistic about the expected loss achievable by the student (in distillation) and a transformed teacher predictor (in LUPI), we show that encouraging agreement between the teacher and the student leads to reduced search space. As a result, improved convergence rate can be obtained with regularized empirical risk minimization.

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