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# Algorithmic Stability and Generalization Performance

@inproceedings{Bousquet2000AlgorithmicSA,
title={Algorithmic Stability and Generalization Performance},
author={Olivier Bousquet and Andr{\'e} Elisseeff},
booktitle={NIPS},
year={2000}
}
• Published in NIPS 2000
• Mathematics, Computer Science
We present a novel way of obtaining PAC-style bounds on the generalization error of learning algorithms, explicitly using their stability properties. A stable learner is one for which the learned solution does not change much with small changes in the training set. The bounds we obtain do not depend on any measure of the complexity of the hypothesis space (e.g. VC dimension) but rather depend on how the learning algorithm searches this space, and can thus be applied even when the VC dimension… Expand
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