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Misclassification excess risk bounds for PAC-Bayesian classification via convexified loss
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- PAC-Bayesian bounds have proven to be a valuable tool for deriving generalization bounds and for designing new learning algorithms in machine learning. However, it typically focus on providing generalization bounds with respect to a chosen loss function. In classification tasks, due to the non-convex nature of the 0-1 loss, a convex surrogate loss is often used, and thus current PAC-Bayesian bounds are primarily specified for this convex surrogate. This work shifts its focus to providing misclassification excess risk bounds for PAC-Bayesian classification when using a convex surrogate loss. Our key ingredient here is to leverage PAC-Bayesian relative bounds in expectation rather than relying on PAC-Bayesian bounds in probability. We demonstrate our approach in several important applications.
- Subjects :
- Statistics - Machine Learning
Computer Science - Machine Learning
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2408.08675
- Document Type :
- Working Paper