This post introduces **GIST (Greedy Independent Set Thresholding)**, a new algorithm for selecting diverse and useful data subsets for machine learning. GIST tackles the NP-hard problem of balancing diversity (minimizing redundancy) and utility (relevance to the task) in large datasets.
**Key points:**
* **Approach:** GIST prioritizes minimum distance between selected data points (diversity) then uses a greedy algorithm to approximate the highest-utility subset within that constraint, testing various distance thresholds.
* **Guarantee:** GIST is guaranteed to find a subset with at least half the value of the optimal solution.
* **Performance:** Experiments demonstrate GIST outperforms existing methods (Random, Margin, k-center, Submod) in image classification and single-shot downsampling.
* **Application:** Already used to improve video recommendation diversity at YouTube.
**GIST provides a mathematically grounded and efficient solution for selecting high-quality data subsets for machine learning, crucial as datasets scale.**
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