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Learning Latent Characteristics Of Data And Models Using Item Response Theory, John P. Lalor

Doctoral Dissertations

A supervised machine learning model is trained with a large set of labeled training data, and evaluated on a smaller but still large set of test data. Especially with deep neural networks (DNNs), the complexity of the model requires that an extremely large data set is collected to prevent overfitting. It is often the case that these models do not take into account specific attributes of the training set examples, but instead treat each equally in the process of model training. This is due to the fact that it is difficult to model latent traits of individual examples at the …