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PAC-Bayes Compression Bounds So Tight That They Can Explain Generalization
Sanae Lotfi · Marc Finzi · Sanyam Kapoor · Andres Potapczynski · Micah Goldblum · Andrew Wilson

Tue Nov 29 02:00 PM -- 04:00 PM (PST) @ Hall J #306
in Poster Session 2 »

While there has been progress in developing non-vacuous generalization bounds for deep neural networks, these bounds tend to be uninformative about why deep learning works. In this paper, we develop a compression approach based on quantizing neural network parameters in a linear subspace, profoundly improving on previous results to provide state-of-the-art generalization bounds on a variety of tasks, including transfer learning. We use these tight bounds to better understand the role of model size, equivariance, and the implicit biases of optimization, for generalization in deep learning. Notably, we find large models can be compressed to a much greater extent than previously known, encapsulating Occam’s razor.

Keywords: generalization · transfer learning · compression · generalization bounds · PAC-Bayes · PAC-Bayes Bounds · Occam's Razor · Data-Dependent Priors

Author Information

Sanae Lotfi (New York University)
Marc Finzi (NYU)
Sanyam Kapoor (New York University)
Andres Potapczynski (New York University)
Micah Goldblum (University of Maryland)
Andrew Wilson (New York University)
Andrew Wilson

I am a professor of machine learning at New York University.

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