Questions tagged [inductive-bias]

I was reading Gary Marcus's a Critical Appraisal of Deep Learning. One of his criticisms is that neural networks don't incorporate prior knowledge in tackling a problem. My question is: have there been any attempts at encoding prior knowledge in…

Here is a linear regression model $$y = mx + b,$$ where $b$ is known as $y$-intercept, but also known as the bias [1], $m$ is the slope, and $x$ is the feature vector. As I understood, in machine learning, there is also the bias that can cause the…

It is known that machine learning algorithms expect feature engineering as an initial step. Now, consider the following paragraph, taken from 1.1 The deep learning revolution of the textbook named Deep learning with PyTorch by Eli Stevens, Luca…

Is it true that a bias is said to be inductive iff it is useful in generalising the data? Or does inductive bias can also refer to the assumptions that may cause a decrease in performance? Suppose I have a dataset on which I want to use a deep…