Active statistical inference
Speaker: Ben Chugg
Abstract: Why do passive inference when you can do active inference?! I'll discuss a recent framework for active statistical inference proposed by Zrnic and Candes, which leverages predictions by a black-box model to help decide which observations should be labelled. If time allows, I'll relate this work to prediction-powered inference. Main paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03208.pdf.