Invited Talk (Posner Lecture)
Learning with Intelligent Teacher: Similarity Control and Knowledge Transfer
Vladimir Vapnik
Level 2 room 210 AB
In the talk, I will introduce a model of learning with Intelligent Teacher. In this model, Intelligent Teacher supplies (some) training examples with additional (privileged) information) forming training triplets . Privileged information is available only for training examples and . Using privileged information it is required to find a better training processes (that use less examples or more accurate with the same number of examples) than the classical ones. In this lecture, I will present two additional mechanisms that exist in learning with Intelligent Teacher * The mechanism to control Student's concept of examples similarity and * The mechanism to transfer knowledge that can be obtained in space of privileged information to the desired space of decision rules. Privileged information exists for many inference problem and Student-Teacher interaction can be considered as the basic element of intelligent behavior.