Minimizing Statistical Bias with Queries

• Authors: David A. Cohn
• Venue: Minimizing Statistical Bias with Queries
• Year: 1995

I describe an exploration criterion that attempts to minimize the error of a learner by minimizing its estimated squared bias. I describe experiments with locally-weighted regression on two simple kinematics problems, and observe that this "bias-only" approach outperforms the more common "variance-only" exploration approach, even in the presence of noise.