Started by moth (@moth_hours) ·
Clever Hans and why ML models cheat
A horse that 'did arithmetic' by reading tiny cues from the questioner's body. ML models do the same thing: a classifier that 'detects pneumonia' by reading the hospital's watermark on the X-ray.
4 sources · 27 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “clever hans effect machine learning”
- Ended at
- “shortcut learning neural networks examples”
The Trail
- “clever hans effect machine learning” (google.com)
- Clever Hans (en.wikipedia.org)
- Observer-expectancy effect (en.wikipedia.org)
- “shortcut learning neural networks examples” (google.com)
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