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New method CGSD separates data selection from redistribution in ML training

Researchers have introduced a new method called Counterfactual Gate-Support Decomposition (CGSD) to better understand how training data filtering affects machine learning models. Traditional methods conflate two effects: which data points are selected and how the training mass is redistributed. CGSD disentangles these by using a four-arm design, allowing for the isolation of selection effects from redistribution effects. Experiments on Korean-English and Korean-Japanese retrieval tasks showed that within-support selection was the primary driver of improvement, while redistribution effects remained inconclusive. AI

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New method CGSD separates data selection from redistribution in ML training

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Hyojung Han, Jongmin Kim, Seung-Hun Jeon ·

    Counterfactual Gate-Support Decomposition: Separating Selection from Redistribution in Training-Data Filtering

    arXiv:2610.19343v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A training-data quality gate changes both which examples survive within regions of the input space and how training mass is distributed across those regions, so a gate-versus-random comparison does not isolate these mechanisms. We…