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canbooo t1_j7z0lku wrote

I agree with the size of the difference yet disagree with the examples as there is ml research considering all 3 (causal ml, conformal ml/predictions/forecasting, AI safety, reliability etc.) I think the difference is more like deduction and induction in a sense, meaning the process of finding the answers are different. Since finishing pooping on corporate time, I will keep this short.

ML: Data -> Method -> Hypothesis -> Answers

Statistics: Hypothesis -> Method -> Data -> Answers

This may be too simplistic and please propose a better distinction but do not postulate that ML does not care about things statistics do.

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Ulfgardleo t1_j7yd02x wrote

You are right, but the point I was making that in ml in general those are not of high importance and this already holds for rather basal questions like:

"For your chosen learning algorithm, under which conditions holds that: in expectation over all training datasets of size n, the Bayes risk is not monotonously increasing with n"

One would think that this question is of rather central importance. Yet no-one cares, and answering this question is non-trivial for linear classification already. Stats cares a lot about this question. While the math behind both fields is the same, (all applied math is a subset of math, except if you people who identify as one of both) the communities have different goals.

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