1、How big data can help small data?Fei ShaDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles,CAWhere does this“small”data come from?Examples from yesterdays talksL3 Edge case study“常常会遇到偶发的大雾,大雪,”Quan Finance“左尾”“右尾”没有足够多的数据Education planning is complex decision-makingTime scal
2、es Short-term Which school?Extracurricular activities:sports,arts,etc?Mid-term Which university?Which speciality?Long-term What kind of career path?What else makes this hard?Individual differences Genetically Environmentally Harsh constraints One-shot game Costly to recover from mistakes Our goal:pe
3、rsonalized learning and education Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation on Personalized LearningCNN on Personalized Learning,2016Can machine learning/AI achieve that?Sadly,not 100%yet Individualized models need individual-specific data The amount of data is fundamentally limited,hence being Small.Most moder
4、n learning algorithms require Big Data about the individual.Can you build a model of me?Can machine learning/AI achieve that?Sadly,not 100%yet Individualized models need individual-specific data The amount of data is fundamentally limited,hence being Small.Most modern learning algorithms require Big
5、 Data about the individual.Can you build a model of me?I will need more data from you.Can machine learning/AI achieve that?Sadly,not 100%yet Individualized models need individual-specific data The amount of data is fundamentally limited,hence being Small.Most modern learning algorithms require Big D
6、ata about the individual.Can you build a model of me?I will need more data from you.Or I can give you the model of those3 vignettes of how Big Data can help Small Data3 Learning settings Multi-task learning Domain adaptation Zero-shot learning Primary application focus Computer vision3 vignettes of