| Hector Jasso
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04-11-2001 01:03 PM ET (US)
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Although the general idea of considering unlabeled data to guide the choice of hypothesis is an interesting idea, the method the authors use is not very well founded theoretically. For example, the paper says "we have found that the multiplicative objective generally performs much better [compared to the additive objective]" but I could not find an explanation of why they considered it so. So, I thought that the tests they did to check their algorithm (only four tests for polynomials, for example) was not enough, even considering that they compared it with many other alternate algorithms like REG, ADJ, etc.
Further work on the paper could therefore involve exploring a more solid theoretical foundation for the results found, and also testing with real-life data. In general, the approach is very promising, though.
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