Finite Littlestone Dimension Implies Finite Information Complexity

Aditya Pradeep, Ido Nachum, Michael Gastpar

Abstract: We prove that every online learnable class of functions of Littlestone dimension d 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 d. We also show there is room for improvement; for a canonical online learnable class, indicator functions of affine subspaces of dimension d, the information complexity can be upper bounded logarithmically in d.