Improving Predictive Models with Expert Knowledge
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Multidisciplinary Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2022) | Viewed by 24015
Special Issue Editor
Interests: asymptotic and nonparametric statistics; multivariate analysis; resampling and statistical/machine learning in theory and practice; survival and time series analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Big Data has changed many aspects of present-day statistics: In many fields, predictive models are developed in a purely data-driven way, often even using the directive 'the more data the better', building on Peter Norvig’s quote 'We don’t have better algorithms. We just have more data.' However, the success of Google and Amazon is not one-to-one transferable to other areas. In fact, Big Data is not equal to good data, and for most applications in sciences or industry, accurate and reasonable predictions require additional insights. This expert or domain knowledge may be given by simple physical constraints of the output or knowledge about underlying relations, dependencies, or causalities. Unfortunately, there are not many studies on methods for the inclusion of expert knowledge, let alone its (information and predictive) effect. This is where the current Issue proposal kicks in, for which we envision systematic studies (simulation and theory) on this topic covering application areas from natural science models to industrial time series forecasting. For example, we envision studies that analyze and quantify the improvement of additional information for machine-learning methods in terms of entropy or other information-theoretic, information-quality, or importance measures. Other potential examples may cover the influence of the chosen experimental design, the connection to AutoML, missings, penalization, and distributional discrepancies (e.g., measured via Kullback–Leibler), etc.
Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- classification
- deep learning
- domain knowledge
- feature engineering
- information gain
- machine learning
- regression
- regularization
- statistical learning
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