Continuous Experts and the Binning Algorithm
Abstract
We consider the design of online master algorithms for combining the predictions from a set of experts where the absolute loss of the master is to be close to the absolute loss of the best expert. For the case when the master must produce binary predictions, the Binomial Weighting algorithm is known to be optimal when the number of experts is large. It has remained an open problem how to design master algorithms based on binomial weights when the predictions of the master are allowed to be real valued. In this paper we provide such an algorithm and call it the Binning algorithm because it maintains experts in an array of bins. We show that this algorithm is optimal in a relaxed setting in which we consider experts as continuous quantities. The algorithm is efficient and near-optimal in the standard experts setting.
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Abernethy et al. "Continuous Experts and the Binning Algorithm." Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory, 2006. doi:10.1007/11776420_40Markdown
[Abernethy et al. "Continuous Experts and the Binning Algorithm." Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory, 2006.](https://mlanthology.org/colt/2006/abernethy2006colt-continuous/) doi:10.1007/11776420_40BibTeX
@inproceedings{abernethy2006colt-continuous,
title = {{Continuous Experts and the Binning Algorithm}},
author = {Abernethy, Jacob D. and Langford, John and Warmuth, Manfred K.},
booktitle = {Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory},
year = {2006},
pages = {544-558},
doi = {10.1007/11776420_40},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/colt/2006/abernethy2006colt-continuous/}
}