Why do classifier accuracies show linear trends under distribution shift?

Horia Mania Suvrit Sra

Published in: CoRR (2020)

Keyphrases

discriminant function
spatial distribution
probability distribution
feature selection
class labels
training data
linear classifiers
classification scheme
linear model

decision trees
training set
machine learning
data sets
closed form
classification algorithm
classifier systems
training samples
support vector

multi class
support vector machine
nearest neighbor classifier
binary classifiers
linear systems
minimum error
training and test data
laplace transform

data distribution
classification method
random variables
text classification
recognition rate
active learning
learning algorithm
genetic algorithm