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Generalization error bounds are critical to understanding the performance of machine learning models. In this work, building upon a new bound of the expected value of an arbitrary function of the population and empirical risk of a learning…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Gholamali Aminian , Laura Toni , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

We investigate measures of complexity of function classes based on continuity moduli of Gaussian and Rademacher processes. For Gaussian processes, we obtain bounds on the continuity modulus on the convex hull of a function class in terms of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Olivier Bousquet , Vladimir Koltchinskii , Dmitry Panchenko

We propose a novel combination of optimization tools with learning theory bounds in order to analyze the sample complexity of optimal kernel sum classifiers. This contrasts the typical learning theoretic results which hold for all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Raphael Arkady Meyer , Jean Honorio

In this work we consider the problem of learning a positive semidefinite kernel matrix from relative comparisons of the form: "object A is more similar to object B than it is to C", where comparisons are given by humans. Existing solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Eric Heim , Hamed Valizadegan , Milos Hauskrecht

Laplacian-based methods are popular for the dimensionality reduction of data lying in $\mathbb{R}^N$. Several theoretical results for these algorithms depend on the fact that the Euclidean distance locally approximates the geodesic distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Liane Xu , Amit Singer

Dealing with massive data is a challenging task for machine learning. An important aspect of machine learning is function approximation. In the context of massive data, some of the commonly used tools for this purpose are sparsity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Hrushikesh N Mhaskar

This paper discusses the notion of generalization of training samples over long distances in the input space of a feedforward neural network. Such a generalization might occur in various ways, that differ in how great the contribution of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-06-13 Artur Rataj

We introduce an algorithm that, given n objects, learns a similarity matrix over all n^2 pairs, from crowdsourced data alone. The algorithm samples responses to adaptively chosen triplet-based relative-similarity queries. Each query has the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-07-19 Omer Tamuz , Ce Liu , Serge Belongie , Ohad Shamir , Adam Tauman Kalai

In this work, we present a variety of novel information-theoretic generalization bounds for learning algorithms, from the supersample setting of Steinke & Zakynthinou (2020)-the setting of the "conditional mutual information" framework. Our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-16 Ziqiao Wang , Yongyi Mao

This paper generalizes regularized regression problems in a hyper-reproducing kernel Hilbert space (hyper-RKHS), illustrates its utility for kernel learning and out-of-sample extensions, and proves asymptotic convergence results for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Fanghui Liu , Lei Shi , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yang , Johan A. K. Suykens

We present a probabilistic viewpoint to multiple kernel learning unifying well-known regularised risk approaches and recent advances in approximate Bayesian inference relaxations. The framework proposes a general objective function suitable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-08 Hannes Nickisch , Matthias Seeger

Many fundamental machine learning tasks can be formulated as a problem of learning with vector-valued functions, where we learn multiple scalar-valued functions together. Although there is some generalization analysis on different specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Liang Wu , Antoine Ledent , Yunwen Lei , Marius Kloft

Training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with adversarial examples often results in poor generalization to test-time adversarial data. This paper investigates this issue, known as adversarially robust generalization, through the lens of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-11 Jiancong Xiao , Ruoyu Sun , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

Prior information can be incorporated in matrix completion to improve estimation accuracy and extrapolate the missing entries. Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces provide tools to leverage the said prior information, and derive more reliable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-22 Pere Giménez-Febrer , Alba Pagès-Zamora , Georgios B. Giannakis

We present a data dependent generalization bound for a large class of regularized algorithms which implement structured sparsity constraints. The bound can be applied to standard squared-norm regularization, the Lasso, the group Lasso, some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Andreas Maurer , Massimiliano Pontil

Providing non-conservative uncertainty quantification for function estimates derived from noisy observations remains a fundamental challenge in statistical machine learning, particularly for applications in safety-critical domains. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Johannes Teutsch , Oleksii Molodchyk , Marion Leibold , Timm Faulwasser , Armin Lederer

Various methods in statistical learning build on kernels considered in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. In applications, the kernel is often selected based on characteristics of the problem and the data. This kernel is then employed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Paul Dommel , Alois Pichler

To operate intelligently in domestic environments, robots require the ability to understand arbitrary spatial relations between objects and to generalize them to objects of varying sizes and shapes. In this work, we present a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Philipp Jund , Andreas Eitel , Nichola Abdo , Wolfram Burgard

Deep neural networks (DNNs) exhibit an exceptional capacity for generalization in practical applications. This work aims to capture the effect and benefits of depth for supervised learning via information-theoretic generalization bounds. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Haiyun He , Ziv Goldfeld

This work advances the theoretical understanding of quantum learning by establishing a new family of upper bounds on the expected generalization error of quantum learning algorithms, leveraging the framework introduced by Caro et al. (2024)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi , Ayanava Dasgupta , Masahito Hayashi