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Finite Littlestone Dimension Implies Finite Information Complexity

Machine Learning 2022-06-28 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

We prove that every online learnable class of functions of Littlestone dimension dd admits a learning algorithm with finite information complexity. Towards this end, we use the notion of a globally stable algorithm. Generally, the information complexity of such a globally stable algorithm is large yet finite, roughly exponential in dd. We also show there is room for improvement; for a canonical online learnable class, indicator functions of affine subspaces of dimension dd, the information complexity can be upper bounded logarithmically in dd.

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@article{arxiv.2206.13257,
  title  = {Finite Littlestone Dimension Implies Finite Information Complexity},
  author = {Aditya Pradeep and Ido Nachum and Michael Gastpar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.13257},
  year   = {2022}
}
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