Subjectivity in inductive inference
研究主观性如何提升归纳推理的有效性,分析面对数据生成过程时,纯客观推理会导致过拟合,而引入主观因素可改善学习效果。
This paper examines circumstances under which subjectivity enhances the effectiveness of inductive reasoning. We consider agents facing a data generating process who are characterized by inference rules that may be purely objective (or data-based) or may incorporate subjective considerations. The basic intuition is that agents who invoke no subjective considerations are doomed to "overfit" the data and therefore engage in ineffective learning. The analysis places no computational or memory limitations on the agents|the role for subjectivity emerges in the presence of unlimited reasoning powers.