I have no formal math background really so I can’t speak to your methods but I appreciate that you have shared your work freely.
Did you have any issues defending your thesis due to the issues you described above related to publishing?
Noticed a typo in your abstract:
“Maybe” should be “may be” in sentence below (italics):
> We show that this technique addresses the above challenges: (a) it arrests the reduction in accuracy that comes from shrinking a model (in some cases we observe ~ 100% improvement over baselines), and also, (b) that this maybe applied with no change across model families with different notions of size; results are shown for Decision Trees, Linear Probability models and Gradient Boosted Models.
Thank you for pointing out the typo - will fix it!
[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence...