Cooperative System Identification

My colleague Inês Lourenço has just published a pre-print of her latest work: Cooperative System Identification via Correctional Learning. It has been developed in collaboration with me, Cristian Rojas and Bo Wahlberg.

In this work, we consider a scenario where a teacher knows a correct model of a system and aims to assist a student who is trying to estimate it. However, the teacher cannot directly transfer its model to the student – for example, the teacher’s knowledge might be abstract (“what is your model of how to drive a car?”).

We propose correctional learning as an approach to this problem: in order to assist the student, the teacher can intercept the observations collected from the system and modify them so as to maximize the amount of information the student receives.

Have a look at the pre-print, and send Inês or me any comments you may have!