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M31.6 CONNECT THE MECHANISM

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An astronomer can label 500 of 100,000 galaxy images. Which 500? Let the model ask about what confuses it, and learn why it can still miss its own worst mistakes.

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Lesson overview

An astronomer can label 500 of 100,000 galaxy images. Which 500? Let the model ask about what confuses it, and learn why it can still miss its own worst mistakes.

What you’ll explore

  • Rank unlabeled examples by least confidence or entropy, recognize the sampling bias that model-chosen labels create, and design a fair comparison for a training curriculum.
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Original explanations, connected to the research.

Active Learning Literature Survey (Settles, 2009)Curriculum Learning (Bengio, Louradour, Collobert & Weston, 2009)When Do Curricula Work? (Wu, Dyer & Neyshabur, 2021)
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