Title :
Optimization of MCMC sampling algorithm for the calculation of PAC-Bayes bound
Author :
Li Tang ; Zheng Zhao ; Xiu-Jun Gong ; Hua-Peng Zeng
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China
Abstract :
PAC-Bayes bound provides a formal framework for deducing the tightest risk bounds of the classifiers. After formulating the concept space as a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS), the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling algorithm for simulating posterior distributions of the concept space can realize the calculation of PAC-Bayes bound. A major issue is the computational complexity in geometric growth when the dimension of concept space increases. In this paper, we store a portion of the sampling data and calculate its variance, after which the variance minimization method is proposed to investigate the support vectors. Finally, we optimize the support vectors coupled with their weight vectors, and compare the PAC-Bayes bounds. The experimental results of our artificial data sets in low-dimensional spaces show that the optimization is reasonable and effective in practice.
Keywords :
Bayes methods; Markov processes; Monte Carlo methods; computational complexity; learning (artificial intelligence); minimisation; pattern classification; sampling methods; Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithm; PAC-Bayes bound; Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space; classifiers; computational complexity; low-dimensional spaces; posterior distributions; support vectors; tightest risk bounds; variance minimization method; weight vectors; Abstracts; Erbium; Monte Carlo methods; Optimization; Support vector machines; Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC); PAC-Bayes bound; Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS); Support Vector Machine (SVM);
Conference_Titel :
Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tianjin
DOI :
10.1109/ICMLC.2013.6890745