Error Bounds of Supervised Classification from Information-Theoretic Perspective
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04567v2
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 04:47:43 GMT
- Title: Error Bounds of Supervised Classification from Information-Theoretic Perspective
- Authors: Binchuan Qi, Wei Gong, Li Li,
- Abstract summary: We show that errors are bounded by the complexity, influenced by the smoothness of distribution and the sample size, and constitute an upper on the expected risk.
Our empirical verification confirms a significant positive correlation between the derived theoretical bounds and the practical expected risk.
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- Abstract: There remains a list of unanswered research questions on deep learning (DL), including the remarkable generalization power of overparametrized neural networks, the efficient optimization performance despite the non-convexity, and the mechanisms behind flat minima in generalization. In this paper, we adopt an information-theoretic perspective to explore the theoretical foundations of supervised classification using deep neural networks (DNNs). Our analysis introduces the concepts of fitting error and model risk, which, together with generalization error, constitute an upper bound on the expected risk. We demonstrate that the generalization errors are bounded by the complexity, influenced by both the smoothness of distribution and the sample size. Consequently, task complexity serves as a reliable indicator of the dataset's quality, guiding the setting of regularization hyperparameters. Furthermore, the derived upper bound fitting error links the back-propagated gradient, Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK), and the model's parameter count with the fitting error. Utilizing the triangle inequality, we establish an upper bound on the expected risk. This bound offers valuable insights into the effects of overparameterization, non-convex optimization, and the flat minima in DNNs.Finally, empirical verification confirms a significant positive correlation between the derived theoretical bounds and the practical expected risk, confirming the practical relevance of the theoretical findings.
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