Correcting sample selection bias by unlabeled data

Jiayuan Huang; Alexander J. Smola; Arthur Gretton; Karsten M. Borgwardt; Bernhard Schölkopf

Correcting sample selection bias by unlabeled data

Jiayuan Huang^*, Alexander J. Smola, Arthur Gretton, Karsten M. Borgwardt, Bernhard Schölkopf

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Abstract

We consider the scenario where training and test data are drawn from different distributions, commonly referred to as sample selection bias. Most algorithms for this setting try to first recover sampling distributions and then make appropriate corrections based on the distribution estimate. We present a nonparametric method which directly produces resampling weights without distribution estimation. Our method works by matching distributions between training and testing sets in feature space. Experimental results demonstrate that our method works well in practice.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19 - Proceedings of the 2006 Conference
Pages	601-608
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	20th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2006 - Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: 4 Dec 2006 → 7 Dec 2006

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Name	Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
ISSN (Print)	1049-5258

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Conference	20th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2006
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver, BC
Period	4/12/06 → 7/12/06

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Huang, J, Smola, AJ, Gretton, A, Borgwardt, KM & Schölkopf, B 2007, Correcting sample selection bias by unlabeled data. in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19 - Proceedings of the 2006 Conference. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 601-608, 20th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2006, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 4/12/06.

Correcting sample selection bias by unlabeled data. / Huang, Jiayuan; Smola, Alexander J.; Gretton, Arthur et al.
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