An Information-Theoretic Framework for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
Wenliang Liu, Guanding Yu, Zhejiang University, China; Lele Wang, Renjie Liao, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Session:
Generalization Bounds
Track:
8: Machine Learning
Location:
Ballroom II & III
Presentation Time:
Thu, 11 Jul, 16:25 - 16:45
Session Chair:
Abdellatif Zaidi,
Abstract
We study the Out-of-Distribution (OOD) generalization in machine learning and propose a general framework that provides information-theoretic generalization bounds. Our framework interpolates freely between Integral Probability Metric (IPM) and f-divergence, which naturally recovers some known results (including Wasserstein- and KL-bounds), as well as yields new generalization bounds. Moreover, we show that our framework admits an optimal transport interpretation. When evaluated in two concrete examples, the proposed bounds either strictly improve upon existing bounds in some cases or recover the best among existing OOD generalization bounds.