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Dai ties a data item’s effect to changes in output

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Dai ties a data item’s effect to changes in output

Zheng Dai says that if removing a piece of training data leaves the model’s output unchanged, that piece of data did not affect the output.

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When AI art has no author: MIT study finds generated images often can't be traced to any training data | MIT CSAIL

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If you take away a piece of data and the output of the model doesn’t change, then that piece of data didn’t affect the output
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