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Generalization Error Bounds Via Rényi-, f-Divergences and Maximal Leakage

Esposito, Amedeo Roberto  
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Gastpar, Michael C.  
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Issa, Ibrahim  
2021
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

In this work, the probability of an event under some joint distribution is bounded by measuring it with the product of the marginals instead (which is typically easier to analyze) together with a measure of the dependence between the two random variables. These results find applications in adaptive data analysis, where multiple dependencies are introduced and in learning theory, where they can be employed to bound the generalization error of a learning algorithm. Bounds are given in terms of Sibson’s Mutual Information, α -Divergences, Hellinger Divergences, and f -Divergences. A case of particular interest is the Maximal Leakage (or Sibson’s Mutual Information of order infinity), since this measure is robust to post-processing and composes adaptively. The corresponding bound can be seen as a generalization of classical bounds, such as Hoeffding’s and McDiarmid’s inequalities, to the case of dependent random variables.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TIT.2021.3085190
ArXiv ID

1912.01439

Author(s)
Esposito, Amedeo Roberto  
Gastpar, Michael C.  
Issa, Ibrahim  
Date Issued

2021

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Volume

67

Issue

8

Start page

4986

End page

5004

Subjects

Sibson’s Mutual Information

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Rényi- Divergence

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f-Divergence

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maximal leakage

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generalization error

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adaptive data analysis

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FunderGrant Number

FNS

169294

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August 24, 2021
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