Summary of Gentle Local Robustness Implies Generalization, by Khoat Than et al.
Gentle Local Robustness implies Generalization
by Khoat Than, Dat Phan, Giang Vu
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers investigate the connection between robustness and generalization ability in machine learning models. While prior theories suggest that robust algorithms can produce highly generalizable models, new findings show that existing error bounds are insufficient for the Bayes optimal classifier, which is the best possible classifier for a classification problem with overlapping classes. To address this issue, the authors introduce a novel class of model-dependent bounds that are tighter and converge to the true error rate as the number of samples increases. The authors also provide an extensive experiment, showing that two of these bounds are often non-vacuous for deep neural networks pretrained on ImageNet. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making sure machine learning models work well in different situations. Researchers want to know how to make models more robust and accurate. They found out that some old methods don’t work as well as we thought. Instead, they came up with new ways to measure how good a model is. These new measures are better than the old ones because they take into account how the model works and how many examples it has seen. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Generalization » Machine learning
