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Published July 1992 | Published
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Information-based objective functions for active data selection

Abstract

Learning can be made more efficient if we can actively select particularly salient data points. Within a Bayesian learning framework, objective functions are discussed that measure the expected informativeness of candidate measurements. Three alternative specifications of what we want to gain information about lead to three different criteria for data selection. All these criteria depend on the assumption that the hypothesis space is correct, which may prove to be their main weakness.

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© 1992 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Received 17 July 1991; accepted 15 November 1991. Posted Online March 13, 2008. I thank Allen Knutsen, Tom Loredo, Marcus Mitchell, and the referees for helpful feedback. This work was supported by a Caltech Fellowship and a Studentship from SERC, UK.

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