LGMLDec 30, 2017

PAC-Bayesian Margin Bounds for Convolutional Neural Networks

arXiv:1801.00171v226 citations
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This work addresses the generalization error problem for researchers in machine learning theory, but it is incremental as it extends an existing framework to a specific architecture.

The authors tackled the problem of analyzing generalization error in convolutional neural networks by adapting the PAC-Bayesian framework from fully connected layers, resulting in theoretical bounds for this setting.

Recently the generalization error of deep neural networks has been analyzed through the PAC-Bayesian framework, for the case of fully connected layers. We adapt this approach to the convolutional setting.

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