Fundamentals of Task-Agnostic Data Valuation. (arXiv:2208.12354v1 [cs.LG])

We study valuing the data of a data owner/seller for a data seeker/buyer.
Data valuation is often carried out for a specific task assuming a particular
utility metric, such as test accuracy on a validation set, that may not exist
in practice. In this work, we focus on task-agnostic data valuation without any
validation requirements. The data buyer has access to a limited amount of data
(which could be publicly available) and seeks more data samples from a data
seller. …

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