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Hypothesis Set Stability and Generalization

Machine Learning 2020-10-06 v3 Machine Learning

Abstract

We present a study of generalization for data-dependent hypothesis sets. We give a general learning guarantee for data-dependent hypothesis sets based on a notion of transductive Rademacher complexity. Our main result is a generalization bound for data-dependent hypothesis sets expressed in terms of a notion of hypothesis set stability and a notion of Rademacher complexity for data-dependent hypothesis sets that we introduce. This bound admits as special cases both standard Rademacher complexity bounds and algorithm-dependent uniform stability bounds. We also illustrate the use of these learning bounds in the analysis of several scenarios.

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@article{arxiv.1904.04755,
  title  = {Hypothesis Set Stability and Generalization},
  author = {Dylan J. Foster and Spencer Greenberg and Satyen Kale and Haipeng Luo and Mehryar Mohri and Karthik Sridharan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.04755},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Published in NeurIPS 2019. This version is equivalent to the camera-ready version but also includes the supplementary material

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