Agnostic Sample Compression Schemes for Regression

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Autores principales: Attias, Idan, Hanneke, Steve, Kontorovich, Aryeh, Sadigurschi, Menachem
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author Attias, Idan
Hanneke, Steve
Kontorovich, Aryeh
Sadigurschi, Menachem
author_facet Attias, Idan
Hanneke, Steve
Kontorovich, Aryeh
Sadigurschi, Menachem
contents We obtain the first positive results for bounded sample compression in the agnostic regression setting with the $\ell_p$ loss, where $p\in [1,\infty]$. We construct a generic approximate sample compression scheme for real-valued function classes exhibiting exponential size in the fat-shattering dimension but independent of the sample size. Notably, for linear regression, an approximate compression of size linear in the dimension is constructed. Moreover, for $\ell_1$ and $\ell_\infty$ losses, we can even exhibit an efficient exact sample compression scheme of size linear in the dimension. We further show that for every other $\ell_p$ loss, $p\in (1,\infty)$, there does not exist an exact agnostic compression scheme of bounded size. This refines and generalizes a negative result of David, Moran, and Yehudayoff for the $\ell_2$ loss. We close by posing general open questions: for agnostic regression with $\ell_1$ loss, does every function class admits an exact compression scheme of size equal to its pseudo-dimension? For the $\ell_2$ loss, does every function class admit an approximate compression scheme of polynomial size in the fat-shattering dimension? These questions generalize Warmuth's classic sample compression conjecture for realizable-case classification.
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spellingShingle Agnostic Sample Compression Schemes for Regression
Attias, Idan
Hanneke, Steve
Kontorovich, Aryeh
Sadigurschi, Menachem
Machine Learning
Information Theory
Statistics Theory
We obtain the first positive results for bounded sample compression in the agnostic regression setting with the $\ell_p$ loss, where $p\in [1,\infty]$. We construct a generic approximate sample compression scheme for real-valued function classes exhibiting exponential size in the fat-shattering dimension but independent of the sample size. Notably, for linear regression, an approximate compression of size linear in the dimension is constructed. Moreover, for $\ell_1$ and $\ell_\infty$ losses, we can even exhibit an efficient exact sample compression scheme of size linear in the dimension. We further show that for every other $\ell_p$ loss, $p\in (1,\infty)$, there does not exist an exact agnostic compression scheme of bounded size. This refines and generalizes a negative result of David, Moran, and Yehudayoff for the $\ell_2$ loss. We close by posing general open questions: for agnostic regression with $\ell_1$ loss, does every function class admits an exact compression scheme of size equal to its pseudo-dimension? For the $\ell_2$ loss, does every function class admit an approximate compression scheme of polynomial size in the fat-shattering dimension? These questions generalize Warmuth's classic sample compression conjecture for realizable-case classification.
title Agnostic Sample Compression Schemes for Regression
topic Machine Learning
Information Theory
Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01864