Distribution Guided Active Feature Acquisition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03915v1
• Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 20:38:30 GMT
• Title: Distribution Guided Active Feature Acquisition
• Authors: Yang Li, Junier Oliva,
• Abstract summary: We develop an active feature acquisition framework that interacts with the environment to obtain new information on-the-fly. We build our AFA framework on a backbone of understanding the information and conditional dependencies that are present in the data. We show that it is possible to guide the training of RL agents for AFA via side-information and auxiliary rewards stemming from our generative models.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Human agents routinely reason on instances with incomplete and muddied data (and weigh the cost of obtaining further features). In contrast, much of ML is devoted to the unrealistic, sterile environment where all features are observed and further information on an instance is obviated. Here we extend past static ML and develop an active feature acquisition (AFA) framework that interacts with the environment to obtain new information on-the-fly and can: 1) make inferences on an instance in the face of incomplete features, 2) determine a plan for feature acquisitions to obtain additional information on the instance at hand. We build our AFA framework on a backbone of understanding the information and conditional dependencies that are present in the data. First, we show how to build generative models that can capture dependencies over arbitrary subsets of features and employ these models for acquisitions in a greedy scheme. After, we show that it is possible to guide the training of RL agents for AFA via side-information and auxiliary rewards stemming from our generative models. We also examine two important factors for deploying AFA models in real-world scenarios, namely interpretability and robustness. Extensive experiments demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of our AFA framework.

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