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finding:das-learning-rate-of-5e-3-outperforms-1e-3-used-in-wu-et-al-2023-for-small-training-sets-in-causalgymDAS learning rate of 5e-3 outperforms 1e-3 (used in Wu et al. 2023) for small training sets in CausalGym
Hyperparameter tuning result for DAS; different from prior work due to smaller training set size
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extracted_from(2024) · Aryaman Arora · Dan Jurafsky · Christopher Potts
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- Table 2, row 3, showing equivalence when prior preferences match rewards.
- DAS behavioral loss achieves IIA of 0.997±0.001 on synthetic 10-class dataset training/test setsfinding0.750IIA baseline for DAS behavioral loss on synthetic dataset
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