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The 13th Machine Learning Summer School

Bayesian or Frequentist, Which Are You?

author: Michael I. Jordan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, University of California
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0:00 Are You a Bayesian or a Frequentist?
1:28 Statistical Inference
6:36 Machine Learning
10:11 Decison-Theoretic Perspective -1
13:01 Decison-Theoretic Perspective -2
18:18 Decison-Theoretic Perspective -3
19:55 Coherence and Calibration
25:23 The Bayesian World
27:03 Subjective Bayes
34:03 Objective Bayes
36:44 Frequentist Perspective
39:20 Frequentist Activities
50:35 Outline -1
50:50 Surrogate Loss Functions
52:02 Motivating example: Decentralized Detection
53:18 Decentralized Detection
54:26 Decentralized Detection (cont.)
56:57 Perspectives -1
60:16 f-divergences
61:23 Why the f-divergence?
64:02 Statistical Machine Learning Perspective
64:48 Margin-Based Loss Functions
65:40 Estimation Based on a Convex Surrogate Loss
67:02 Some Theory for Surrogate Loss Functions
68:37 Outline -2
69:38 Setup -1
71:28 Profiling
73:43 Some Examples
74:18 Link -1
75:00 Conjugate Duality
75:49 Link -2
77:12 The Easy Direction
78:20 The Direction Has a Constructive Consequence -1
79:07 Example - Hellinger distance
80:45 Example - Variational distance
81:24 Example - Kullback-Leibler divergence
81:29 Bayes Consistency -1

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