PAC-Bayes and Information ComplexityDownload PDF

Published: 01 Apr 2021, Last Modified: 05 May 2023Neural Compression Workshop @ ICLR 2021Readers: Everyone
Keywords: PAC-Bayes, generalization bounds, Gibbs algorithm, mutual information, Information complexity, Entropy-SGD, flat minima
TL;DR: We present a common framework for deriving PAC-Bayesian and information-theoretic generalization bounds.
Abstract: We point out that a number of well-known PAC-Bayesian-style and information-theoretic generalization bounds for randomized learning algorithms can be derived under a common framework starting from a fundamental information exponential inequality. We also obtain new bounds for data-dependent priors and unbounded loss functions. Optimizing these bounds naturally gives rise to a method called Information Complexity Minimization for which we discuss two practical examples for learning with neural networks, namely Entropy- and PAC-Bayes- SGD.
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