Some PAC-Bayesian Theorems |
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Authors: | McAllester David A |
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Affiliation: | (1) AT&T Labs-Research, 180 Park Avenue, Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper gives PAC guarantees for Bayesian algorithms—algorithms that optimize risk minimization expressions involving a prior probability and a likelihood for the training data. PAC-Bayesian algorithms are motivated by a desire to provide an informative prior encoding information about the expected experimental setting but still having PAC performance guarantees over all IID settings. The PAC-Bayesian theorems given here apply to an arbitrary prior measure on an arbitrary concept space. These theorems provide an alternative to the use of VC dimension in proving PAC bounds for parameterized concepts. |
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Keywords: | Bayesian inference model selection risk minimization PAC MDL |
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