Rashomon Alignment
Quick summary
arXiv:2607.25680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose Rashomon Alignment (RA), a new measure to assess functional similarity between two models. Existing functional similarity measures are distributional, quantifying differences between outputs of models applied to real-world data. However, these measures can be regarded as ecologically valid only for regions in the input space represented by the available data. We introduce a geometrical perspective on functional model similarity, which estimates it across the entire data space, offering a comprehensive view of decision boundary alignm
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2607.25680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose Rashomon Alignment (RA), a new measure to assess functional similarity between two models.
- Existing functional similarity measures are distributional, quantifying differences between outputs of models applied to real-world data.
- However, these measures can be regarded as ecologically valid only for regions in the input space represented by the available data.
Why it matters
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