Ensemble Distillation for Structured Prediction: Calibrated, Accurate, Fast—Choose Three (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Modern neural networks do not always produce wellcalibrated predictions . post-hoc calibration methods require a held-out calibration dataset, which may not be available in all circumstances. |
| Approach: | They validate ensemble distillation framework for producing well-calibrated structured prediction models without the prohibitive inference-time cost of ensembles. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework produces well-calibrated predictions without the prohibitive inference-time cost of ensembles. |
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