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Data Valuation
53 papers with code · 0 benchmarks · 0 datasets archive 2025-07-28
Data valuation in machine learning tries to determine the worth of data, or data sets, for downstream tasks. Some methods are task-agnostic and consider datasets as a whole, mostly for decision making in data markets. These look at distributional distances between samples. More often, methods look at how individual points affect performance of specific machine learning models. They assign a scalar to each element of a training set which reflects its contribution to the final performance of some model trained on it. Some concepts of value depend on a specific model of interest, others are model-agnostic.
Concepts of the usefulness of a datum or its influence on the outcome of a prediction have a long history in statistics and ML, in particular through the notion of the influence function. However, it has only been recently that rigorous and practical notions of value for data, and in particular data-sets, have appeared in the ML literature, often based on concepts from collaborative game theory, but also from generalization estimates of neural networks, or optimal transport theory, among others.
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5 Apr 2019 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 2 samples · 2 unverifiedAs data becomes the fuel driving technological and economic growth, a fundamental challenge is how to quantify the value of data in algorithmic predictions and decisions.
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29 Jan 2024 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 7 samples · 1 unverifiedMany tasks in explainable machine learning, such as data valuation and feature attribution, perform expensive computation for each data point and are intractable for large datasets.
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11 Feb 2022 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 2 samples · 2 unverifiedOver the last few years, the Shapley value, a solution concept from cooperative game theory, has found numerous applications in machine learning.
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22 Aug 2019 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 5 samples · 2 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)The most surprising result is that for unweighted $K$NN classifiers and regressors, the Shapley value of all N data points can be computed, exactly, in O(NlogN) time -- an exponential improvement on computational…
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7 Aug 2024 2 repositories listedData valuation has emerged as a powerful framework for quantifying each datum's contribution to the training of a machine learning model.
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17 Jun 2024 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 8 samples · 2 unverifiedData Shapley, a landmark study on data valuation, advances this understanding by assessing the contribution of each datum to model performance.
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18 Jun 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 7 samples · 1 unverifiedAssessing the quality and impact of individual data points is critical for improving model performance and mitigating undesirable biases within the training dataset.
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16 Apr 2023 2 repositories listedAs a result, it has been recognized as infeasible to apply to large datasets.
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13 Nov 2022 2 repositories listedOur theoretical analysis shows the proposed value function is (essentially) the unique function that satisfies two desirable properties for evaluating data values in classification.
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30 May 2022 2 repositories listedTo address this challenge, we introduce the concept of safety margin, which measures the robustness of a data value notion.
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26 Oct 2021 2 repositories listedData Shapley has recently been proposed as a principled framework to quantify the contribution of individual datum in machine learning.
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25 Sep 2019 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)To adaptively learn data values jointly with the target task predictor model, we propose a meta learning framework which we name Data Valuation using Reinforcement Learning (DVRL).
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25 May 2025 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverifiedData Shapley is an important tool for data valuation, which quantifies the contribution of individual data points to machine learning models.
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23 Mar 2025 1 repository listedGraph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in various graph-based machine learning tasks, yet evaluating the importance of neighbors of testing nodes remains largely unexplored due to the…
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9 Mar 2025 1 repository listedHowever, in critical ML applications such as data valuation and feature attribution, the uniform weighting of Shapley values across subset cardinalities leads to unintuitive credit assignments.
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2 Mar 2025 1 repository listedLarge Language Models (LLMs) heavily rely on high-quality training data, making data valuation crucial for optimizing model performance, especially when working within a limited budget.
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22 Feb 2025 1 repository listedData valuation is increasingly used in machine learning (ML) to decide the fair compensation for data owners and identify valuable or harmful data for improving ML models.
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14 Feb 2025 1 repository listedParticularly, recent works have proposed various metrics and algorithms to calculate the influence of data using language models, which do not scale well with large models and datasets.
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12 Feb 2025 1 repository listedUser behavior records serve as the foundation for recommender systems.
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3 Feb 2025 1 repository listedFine-tuning large language models (LLMs) is often constrained by the computational costs of processing massive datasets.
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5 Dec 2024 1 repository listedAssessing the importance of individual training samples is a key challenge in machine learning.
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1 Nov 2024 1 repository listedThe Shapley value, a well-established concept from cooperative game theory, has been widely adopted to assess the contribution of individual data sources in supervised machine learning.
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31 Oct 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)Particularly, our one-for-all estimator achieves the fastest convergence rate on Beta Shapley values, including the well-known Shapley value, both theoretically and empirically.
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6 Oct 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 12 of 13 samples · 1 unverifiedData valuation is a class of techniques for quantitatively assessing the value of data for applications like pricing in data marketplaces.
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2 Oct 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverifiedIn this work, we introduce shapiq, an open-source Python package that unifies state-of-the-art algorithms to efficiently compute SVs and any-order SIs in an application-agnostic framework.
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1 Oct 2024 1 repository listedSynthetic data generation has been proven successful in improving model performance and robustness in the context of scarce or low-quality data.
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8 Sep 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 4 of 5 samples · 1 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)Influence Functions are a standard tool for attributing predictions to training data in a principled manner and are widely used in applications such as data valuation and fairness.
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17 Jul 2024 1 repository listedData valuation quantifies the value of training data, and is used for data attribution (i.
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1 Jun 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 5 of 5 samples · 0 unverifiedThis paper proposes a novel contribution assessment method called ShapFed for fine-grained evaluation of participant contributions in FL.
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30 May 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverifiedWe introduce a new perspective by investigating scaling behavior for the value of individual data points: we find that a data point's contribution to model's performance shrinks predictably with the size of the dataset…
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