Beyond Pooling: Matching for Robust Generalization under Data Heterogeneity
#Representation learning #Data heterogeneity #Zero-shot generalization #Propensity score matching #Algorithm bias #arXiv #Machine learning models
📌 Key Takeaways
- Researchers have introduced a new matching framework to replace standard data pooling in AI training.
- Naive pooling of heterogeneous datasets often results in biased estimators and poor model performance.
- The new method uses adaptive centroids and iterative refinement to balance data representation.
- The framework employs double robustness and propensity score matching to ensure stable zero-shot generalization.
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🏷️ Themes
Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning
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📄 Original Source Content
arXiv:2602.07154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pooling heterogeneous datasets across domains is a common strategy in representation learning, but naive pooling can amplify distributional asymmetries and yield biased estimators, especially in settings where zero-shot generalization is required. We propose a matching framework that selects samples relative to an adaptive centroid and iteratively refines the representation distribution. The double robustness and the propensity score matching fo