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Robust Generalization via $\alpha$-Mutual Information

Esposito, Amedeo Roberto  
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Gastpar, Michael C.  
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Issa, Ibrahim
February 26, 2020
International Zurich Seminar on Information and Communication (IZS 2020). Proceedings
International Zurich Seminar on Information and Communication (IZS), February 26 – 28, 2020

The aim of this work is to provide bounds connecting two probability measures of the same event using Rényi $\alpha$-Divergences and Sibson’s $\alpha$-Mutual Information, a generalization of respectively the Kullback-Leibler Divergence and Shannon’s Mutual Information. A particular case of interest can be found when the two probability measures considered are a joint distribution and the corresponding product of marginals (representing the statistically independent scenario). In this case a bound using Sibson’s $\alpha$−Mutual Information is retrieved, extending a result involving Maximal Leakage to general alphabets. These results have broad applications, from bounding the generalization error of learning algorithms to the more general framework of adaptive data analysis, provided that the divergences and/or information measures used are amenable to such an analysis (i.e., are robust to post-processing and compose adaptively). The generalization error bounds are derived with respect to high-probability events but a corresponding bound on expected generalization error is also retrieved.

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