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New framework recovers optimal PAC guarantee for VC learning

Researchers Steinke and Zakynthinou have developed a framework for analyzing the information complexity of learning algorithms using Conditional Mutual Information (CMI). Their work demonstrates that it is possible to recover the optimal Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) guarantee for VC classes through this CMI approach. Specifically, they constructed a randomized learning algorithm that achieves an evaluated Conditional Mutual Information (eCMI) of order O(d), where 'd' represents the VC-dimension of the concept class, yielding an optimal in-expectation generalization guarantee. AI

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New framework recovers optimal PAC guarantee for VC learning

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Steve Hanneke, Juexiao Wang ·

    The optimal information complexity of VC learning

    arXiv:2610.10600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Steinke and Zakynthinou(2020) introduces the Conditional Mutual Information (CMI) framework of analyzing the information complexity of learning algorithms based on algorithm-dependent information-theoretic quantities. We study one…