Study on learning to defer with multiple experts using new surrogate losses.
problem Learning to defer with multiple experts in a machine learning context.
method Introducing a new family of surrogate losses for the multiple-expert setting, proving H H H -consistency bounds, and designing learning algorithms. result Explicit guarantees for new learning to defer algorithms based on minimization of these surrogate losses.
A new method for learning to defer decisions with expert advice improves over standard methods.
problem Learning to defer decisions with expert advice in systems where expert information can be modified after selection.
method An augmented surrogate that operates on the composite expert-advice action space, providing consistency guarantees and excess-risk bounds.
result The method improves over standard Learning-to-Defer and adapts its advice acquisition behavior to the cost regime.
Framework for deferring decisions to experts in sequential medical settings.
problem Myopic and non-adaptive decision-making by ML models in sequential medical contexts.
method Sequential Learning-to-Defer (SLTD) framework using model-based reinforcement learning.
result Adaptive deferral policy improves trade-off between long-term outcomes and deferral frequency.
Study of loss functions for learning to defer, proving consistency.
problem Learning to defer in machine learning.
method Introduced a family of surrogate losses parameterized by Ψ Ψ Ψ and proved their consistency. result Proved realizable H H H -consistency and Bayes-consistency of specific surrogate losses. Optimized deferral improves accuracy in imbalanced settings.
problem Imbalance in expert predictions leads to suboptimal performance in two-stage learning to defer.
method Developed novel cost-sensitive learning algorithms and margin-based loss functions tailored for expert imbalance.
result MILD algorithm shows clear improvements over baselines in image classification and LLM routing tasks.
Online L2D algorithm for multiclass classification with varying experts.
problem Handling streaming data, changing expert availability, and shifting expert distribution.
method First online L2D algorithm with O ( ( n + n e ) T 2 / 3 ) O((n+n_e)T^{2/3}) O (( n + n e ) T 2/3 ) and O ( ( n + n e ) T ) O((n+n_e)\sqrt{T}) O (( n + n e ) T ) regret guarantees. result Effective extension of standard L2D to settings with varying expert availability and reliability.
Unified framework for deferring queries to top-k experts, improving accuracy-cost trade-offs.
problem Limitation of existing L2D frameworks to single-expert deferral.
method Top- k k k Learning-to-Defer framework, including adaptive Top- k ( x ) k(x) k ( x ) variant. result Superior accuracy-cost trade-offs with multi-expert deferral.
Study post-hoc Learning to Defer using density-ratio losses.
problem Optimizing decision-making between models and experts.
method Density-ratio losses for post-hoc L2D scorers, derived from class-probability estimation.
result The approach recovers known results and introduces new connections to expert comparison and anomaly detection.
Study on learning to defer to multiple experts with consistent surrogates and confidence calibration.
problem Addressing the open problems of consistent surrogates, confidence calibration, and ensembling of experts.
method Derive two consistent surrogates (softmax and OvA) and propose a conformal inference technique for choosing experts.
result The OvA-based loss does not cause mis-calibration propagation, while the softmax-based loss does.
New framework improves adversarial robustness in one-stage L2D.
problem Adversarial robustness in one-stage Learning-to-Defer (L2D).
method Formalizes attacks, proposes cost-sensitive adversarial surrogate losses, establishes theoretical guarantees.
result Improves robustness against untargeted and targeted attacks while preserving clean performance.
L2D-CD learns to defer expert recommendations in causal discovery.
problem Combining expert knowledge with data-driven results in causal discovery when expert recommendations may contradict data.
method Adapting learning-to-defer algorithms for pairwise causal discovery, L2D-CD learns a deferral function to select between expert recommendations and data-driven methods.
result L2D-CD outperforms both causal discovery methods and the expert used in isolation, identifying domains where the expert's performance is strong or weak.
In many machine learning applications, there are multiple decision-makers involved, both automated and human. The interaction between these agents often goes unaddressed in algorithmic development. In this work, we explore a simple version of this interaction with a two-stage framework containing an automated model and…
A new method for multi-expert learning-to-defer avoids optimization issues.
problem Optimization issues in multi-expert learning-to-defer systems.
method A decoupled surrogate with a softmax classifier head and independent sigmoid heads per expert.
result First multi-expert L2D guarantee with a constant not growing with the expert pool.
SARD improves adversarial robustness in two-stage L2D systems.
problem Adversarial attacks can manipulate query allocation in two-stage L2D systems.
method Introduces SARD, a convex learning algorithm with provable guarantees.
result SARD significantly improves robustness under adversarial attacks while maintaining strong clean performance.
A new L2D system produces calibrated probabilities of expert correctness without sacrificing accuracy.
problem Calibration of learning to defer systems for safety.
method One-vs-all classifiers with a consistent surrogate loss function.
result Proposes a calibrated L2D system that outperforms existing methods in accuracy and calibration.
Unified model for prediction and deferral selects top-k entities efficiently.
problem Efficiently selecting top-k entities for deferral in machine learning.
method One-stage Top- k k k Learning-to-Defer framework with a convex surrogate. result Unified model achieves superior accuracy-cost trade-offs.
Optimal query allocation improves extractive QA efficiency with LLMs.
problem Efficiency and reliability in extractive question answering with LLMs.
method Learning-to-Defer framework that allocates queries to specialized models.
result Enhanced answer reliability with reduced computational overhead.
Paper proposes consistent estimators for learning to defer decisions to experts.
problem Learning algorithms often ignore expert decision-making in practical scenarios.
method Reduction to cost sensitive learning, novel surrogate loss for consistent estimation.
result Effective approach demonstrated on various tasks, showing consistency.
Study on estimating conditional risk in machine learning.
problem Estimating expected loss of prediction models given input features.
method Analyzed in classification and regression settings, showing equivalence to standard regression. Developed theoretical insights and empirical validation.
result Conditional risk calibration is distinct from existing uncertainty quantification problems.
Framework allows systems to defer difficult decisions to unknown experts.
problem Ensuring safety and robustness in autonomous systems with unknown human experts.
method Meta-learning approach that adapts to new experts at test-time using optimization and model-based attention mechanisms.
result Framework can quickly adapt deferral policies to new experts without re-training.
A new framework integrates classification and regression tasks in multi-task learning.
problem Jointly solving classification and regression tasks in multi-task scenarios.
method Two-Stage Learning-to-Defer (L2D) framework with a unified deferral mechanism.
result Unified deferral mechanism ensures convergence to the Bayes-optimal rejector.
New L2D framework allows deferring specific parts of a sequence prediction to experts.
problem Current L2D methods defer entire predictions, which is not ideal for long sequences.
method Proposes token-level and one-time rejectors to defer specific outputs of a model prediction to experts.
result Granular deferrals achieve better cost-accuracy tradeoffs than whole deferrals.
Multi-expert L2D underfits more severely, requiring new methods.
problem Underfitting in multi-expert L2D settings.
method PiCCE (Pick the Confident and Correct Expert), a surrogate-based method.
result PiCCE effectively reduces multi-expert L2D to a single-expert-like problem, resolving underfitting.
This paper tackles deferral learning with multiple experts, providing strong theoretical guarantees.
problem Optimizing input assignment to experts balancing accuracy and computational cost.
method Introducing new surrogate loss functions and efficient algorithms with strong theoretical learning guarantees.
result Realizable H H H -consistency, H H H -consistency bounds, and Bayes-consistency for deferral learning. DBT combines diffusion models and boosting for supervised learning.
problem Supervised learning problems.
method Diffusion Boosting paradigm and Diffusion Boosted Trees (DBT).
result DBT outperforms deep neural network-based diffusion models and is effective on real-world classification tasks.
Budgeted deferral framework reduces expert query costs in machine learning.
problem High cost of querying all experts in deferral algorithms.
method Introduces budgeted deferral framework for selective expert querying.
result Empirical results show substantial reduction in training costs without sacrificing accuracy.
A novel framework for regression with multiple experts, addressing challenges in infinite and continuous label spaces.
problem Challenges in regression with multiple experts due to the infinite and continuous nature of the label space.
method Introduces a novel framework for regression with deferral, analyzing both single-stage and two-stage scenarios with new surrogate loss functions.
result Proves H H H -consistency bounds for both single-stage and two-stage methods, providing stronger guarantees than Bayes consistency.