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New Weak-to-Strong Learning Framework Improves Decision Making with Limited Labeled Data

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Researchers have developed a new decision-aware weak-to-strong (W2S) framework to improve contextual stochastic optimization by leveraging both labeled and unlabeled data. This framework first trains a weak model using limited labeled data, then uses it to generate predicted outcome distributions on unlabeled contexts, providing soft supervision for training a stronger model. Theoretical analysis shows that W2S can improve downstream decision performance when the correlation dimension between weak and strong feature representations is small. Empirical evidence from a synthetic newsvendor experiment and a real-world comment moderation task supports the framework's effectiveness. AI

IMPACT This framework could enhance decision-making processes in scenarios with scarce labeled data, potentially improving efficiency in applications like comment moderation.

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New Weak-to-Strong Learning Framework Improves Decision Making with Limited Labeled Data

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Jingwei Ji, Renyuan Xu ·

    Weak-to-Strong Learning in Decision Making

    arXiv:2607.18467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many operational decisions rely on predictive models that estimate uncertain outcomes conditional on observable contexts. Training such models, however, often faces a fundamental data asymmetry: labeled outcomes are scarce or costly…

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