surrogate expert

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

Sometimes a machine learning algorithm or other form of AI may be used as a surrogate expert, to make parameter choices about statistical technigues or neural network architectures; choices that woyld otherwise be made by a statistical or AI expert. For example, time series analysis one needs to decide how many time steps to use in windowing methods such as ARMA (Auto Regressive Moving Average).

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Using ML to choose parameters for statistical processing