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On the Role of Data in PAC-Bayes Bounds

Gintare Karolina Dziugaite, Kyle Hsu, Waseem Gharbieh, Gabriel Arpino, Daniel Roy

Abstract

The dominant term in PAC-Bayes bounds is often the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the posterior and prior. For so-called linear PAC-Bayes risk bounds based on the empirical risk of a fixed posterior kernel, it is possible to minimize the expected value of the bound by choosing the prior to be the expected posterior, which we call the

BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v130-karolina-dziugaite21a,
  title = 	 {On the Role of Data in {PAC-Bayes} Bounds},
  author =       {Dziugaite, Gintare Karolina and Hsu, Kyle and Gharbieh, Waseem and Arpino, Gabriel and Roy, Daniel},
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of The 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
  pages = 	 {604--612},
  year = 	 {2021},
  editor = 	 {Banerjee, Arindam and Fukumizu, Kenji},
  volume = 	 {130},
  series = 	 {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  month = 	 {13--15 Apr},
  publisher =    {PMLR},
  pdf = 	 {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v130/karolina-dziugaite21a/karolina-dziugaite21a.pdf},
  url = 	 {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v130/karolina-dziugaite21a.html},
  abstract = 	 {The dominant term in PAC-Bayes bounds is often the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the posterior and prior. For so-called linear PAC-Bayes risk bounds based on the empirical risk of a fixed posterior kernel, it is possible to minimize the expected value of the bound by choosing the prior to be the expected posterior, which we call the