Summary of Generalization and Risk Bounds For Recurrent Neural Networks, by Xuewei Cheng and Ke Huang and Shujie Ma
Generalization and Risk Bounds for Recurrent Neural Networks
by Xuewei Cheng, Ke Huang, Shujie Ma
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Recurrent Neural Networks have achieved significant success in predicting sequential data, but their theoretical studies are still lagging behind due to their complex interconnected structures. This paper establishes a new generalization error bound for vanilla RNNs and provides a unified framework for calculating the Rademacher complexity that can be applied to various loss functions. Using the ramp loss, our bound is shown to be tighter than existing bounds based on the same assumptions regarding the Frobenius and spectral norms of the weight matrices and mild conditions. Numerical results demonstrate that our new generalization bound is the tightest among all existing bounds in three public datasets, outperforming the second-tightest bound by an average percentage of 13.80% and 3.01% when using the tanh and ReLU activation functions, respectively. Additionally, we derive a sharp estimation error bound for RNN-based estimators obtained through empirical risk minimization (ERM) in multi-class classification problems when the loss function satisfies a Bernstein condition. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us better understand how Recurrent Neural Networks can be used to make predictions about things that happen in order. The researchers found a way to create a new formula for predicting how well these networks will work, and it’s more accurate than previous formulas. They tested their formula on three different datasets and found that it was the most accurate of all the formulas they tried. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Generalization » Loss function » Relu » Rnn » Tanh
