Optimistic Rates

author: Nathan Srebro, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
published: Oct. 6, 2014,   recorded: December 2013,   views: 1701
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Worst-case sample complexity bounds generally scale quadratically with the excess error. However, when the target error is small, the dependence on the excess error is more similar to a linear dependence rather than quadratic. In this talk I will discuss when and how such optimistic rates are possible, in particular in the non-parametric scale-sensitive case, and when they are not possible, argue that the "optimistic" regime better captures the relevant regime to learning, and show examples of how an analysis based on such optimistic rates is necessary in order to understand various learning phenomena.

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