Reference

Influence Diagnostics under Self-concordance, Jillian Fisher, Lang Liu, Krishna Pillutla, Yejin Choi, Zaid Harchaoui. Proceedings of The 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics(2023)

Abstract

Influence diagnostics such as influence functions and approximate maximum influence perturbations are popular in machine learning and in AI domain applications. Influence diagnostics are powerful statistical tools to identify influential datapoints or subsets of datapoints. We establish finite-sample statistical bounds, as well as computational complexity bounds, for influence functions and approximate maximum influence perturbations using efficient inverse-Hessian-vector product implementations. We illustrate our results with generalized linear models and large attention based models on synthetic and real data.