AILGROOct 4, 2016

Micro-Data Learning: The Other End of the Spectrum

arXiv:1610.00946v119 citations
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This tackles the problem of data scarcity for researchers and practitioners in robotics and similar domains, potentially enabling learning in resource-constrained settings.

The paper addresses the challenge of learning algorithms with only a few dozen data points, particularly in fields like robotics where data acquisition is expensive or time-consuming, aiming to develop methods for effective micro-data learning.

Many fields are now snowed under with an avalanche of data, which raises considerable challenges for computer scientists. Meanwhile, robotics (among other fields) can often only use a few dozen data points because acquiring them involves a process that is expensive or time-consuming. How can an algorithm learn with only a few data points?

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