Average-Case Information Complexity of Learning

25 Nov 2018  ·  Ido Nachum, Amir Yehudayoff ·

How many bits of information are revealed by a learning algorithm for a concept class of VC-dimension $d$? Previous works have shown that even for $d=1$ the amount of information may be unbounded (tend to $\infty$ with the universe size). Can it be that all concepts in the class require leaking a large amount of information? We show that typically concepts do not require leakage. There exists a proper learning algorithm that reveals $O(d)$ bits of information for most concepts in the class. This result is a special case of a more general phenomenon we explore. If there is a low information learner when the algorithm {\em knows} the underlying distribution on inputs, then there is a learner that reveals little information on an average concept {\em without knowing} the distribution on inputs.

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