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Expected generalization from uniform stability
Statement
Let and be nonempty measurable instance and label spaces, and equip with . Let be a probability measure on , let be a nonempty class of measurable functions , and let be measurable with respect to . For and write , , and . Let have product law on , with , and let be a deterministic, permutation-invariant size-indexed learning rule that outputs members of and assume the maps and for every are jointly measurable with respect to . Assume also that the sample-dependent risk, empirical-risk, and leave-one-out maps in the conclusions are measurable. Assume for every full or deleted sample and every , and assume has uniform deletion stability with a finite nonincreasing sequence . Define , using the size- deletion output. Then
Moreover, for every sample and index ,
All three conclusions are choice-free.
Statement references
Bousquet and Elisseeff, Lemma 7 and proof, printed pp. 504–505, give the expected generalization and leave-one-out identities under the deletion convention. Full JMLR paper PDF
Mohri, Rostamizadeh, and Talwalkar, Theorem 14.2 and complete proof, printed pp. 334–336, give the corresponding replacement-stability argument. Full second-edition book PDF
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A supervised prediction problem with law , an IID product sample , a measurable size-indexed learning rule, bounded measurable losses, and uniform deletion-stability coefficient .
A supervised prediction problem fixes measurable instance and label spaces, a joint sample law, a class of measurable predictors, and a measurable loss. Supervised prediction problems
Population risk is the integral of the predictor's loss against , and empirical risk is the finite average of its sample losses. Population and empirical risk
IID means mutually independent random elements with the same law; here the coordinate sample is the finite product sample with common law . Identical distribution and IID families
The finite product sigma-algebra is generated by coordinate rectangles; finite product measures have the rectangle formula and are unique, so permuting coordinates preserves the product law. The product sigma-algebra and its finite iterates For sigma-finite factors, the product measure exists, has the rectangle formula, is sigma-finite, and is unique
For integrable measurable functions on a product, the product integral equals the iterated section integrals. Fubini's theorem for L^1 functions on a sigma-finite product
A measurable function is in when its absolute value has finite integral; the stated uniform bound on a probability product gives this integrability. Integrable real and complex functions, and their integrals
The integral is linear on . The Lebesgue integral is linear on
Uniform deletion stability bounds the loss change between the full output and its size- deleted output by , uniformly over samples, deleted indices, and test points. Uniform algorithmic stability under deletion
The sample-dependent loss and risk maps are jointly measurable and all losses used here lie in .
Proof
Fix and extend the coordinate sample to , writing for the last coordinate. By [A1] and [F6], is integrable on this product space, and [F5] identifies with . On each all-coordinate rectangle, the mass is the product of its coordinate masses. Transposing coordinates and preserves that value; the generating and uniqueness statements in [F4] therefore show that the transposed product law is again . If replaces by , this gives .
By [F2] and [F7], . The integrand has absolute value at most by [F9], so [F8] gives .
For each , the deleted output depends only on the retained coordinates. Since is independent of them and has law , [F5] and [F6] give . Averaging over therefore yields .
By [F2] and linearity, step 1.1 gives . The indexed retained samples and coincide. Applying [F9] to each full output and that common deletion output, then the triangle inequality, bounds the absolute value of every summand by . Averaging gives the first expected bound.
Each summand in the average in step 1.3 is at most by step 1.2, so its average is at most . This proves the leave-one-out bound.
Depends on
- Uniform algorithmic stability under deletion
- Supervised prediction problems
- Population and empirical risk
- Identical distribution and IID families
- The product sigma-algebra and its finite iterates
- For sigma-finite factors, the product measure exists, has the rectangle formula, is sigma-finite, and is unique
- Fubini's theorem for L^1 functions on a sigma-finite product
- Integrable real and complex functions, and their integrals
- The Lebesgue integral is linear on $L^1(\mu)$
- The modulus of an integral is bounded by the integral of the modulus
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Sources
- Olivier Bousquet and André Elisseeff, Stability and Generalization, JMLR 2 (2002), Lemma 7 and proof (standard reference, not scraped)
- Mehryar Mohri, Afshin Rostamizadeh, and Ameet Talwalkar, Foundations of Machine Learning, 2nd ed., Theorem 14.2 and proof (standard reference, not scraped)