{"id":712,"date":"2019-12-19T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T18:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/research\/?p=712"},"modified":"2019-12-19T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T18:45:05","slug":"the-futility-of-bias-free-learning-and-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/research\/2019\/12\/19\/the-futility-of-bias-free-learning-and-search\/","title":{"rendered":"The Futility of Bias-Free Learning and Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with Professor George Monta\u00f1ez, students Jonathan Hayase \u201920, Julius Lauw  \u201920, Dominique Macias \u201919, Akshay Trikha \u201921 and Julia Vendemiatti \u201921 published a paper titled \u201cThe Futility of Bias-Free Learning and Search.\u201d Learning algorithms are machines that turn data resources into predictions. Their paper shows that unless algorithms do this conversion in a biased way, predisposing their predictions toward predetermined outcomes, they cannot predict any more accurately than random guessing. The paper proves that finding a good bias for a given problem is difficult, when searching among any set of data resources that on average isn\u2019t itself positively biased. These results apply to machine learning algorithms, AI systems, genetic learning algorithms and many other forms of search and optimization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with Professor George Monta\u00f1ez, students Jonathan Hayase \u201920, Julius Lauw \u201920, Dominique Macias \u201919, Akshay Trikha \u201921 and Julia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}