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Poster
Gradient Weights help Nonparametric Regressors
Samory Kpotufe · Abdeslam Boularias

Thu Dec 06 02:00 PM -- 12:00 AM (PST) @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
In regression problems over $\real^d$, the unknown function $f$ often varies more in some coordinates than in others. We show that weighting each coordinate $i$ with the estimated norm of the $i$th derivative of $f$ is an efficient way to significantly improve the performance of distance-based regressors, e.g. kernel and $k$-NN regressors. We propose a simple estimator of these derivative norms and prove its consistency. Moreover, the proposed estimator is efficiently learned online.

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Samory Kpotufe (Princeton University)
Abdeslam Boularias (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)

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