In this paper we derive a Probably Approxilmately Correct(PAC)-Bayesian error bound for linear time-invariant (LTI) stochastic dynamical systems with inputs. Such bounds are widespread in machine learning, and they are useful for characterizing the predictive power of models learned from finitely many data points. In particular, with the bound derived in this paper relates future average prediction errors with the prediction error generated by the model on the data used for learning. In turn, this allows us to provide finite-sample error bounds for a wide class of learning/system identification algorithms. Furthermore, as LTI systems are a sub-class of recurrent neural networks (RNNs), these error bounds could be a first step towards PAC-Bayesian bounds for RNNs.
翻译:在本文中,我们推导了一种适用于带输入的线性时不变(LTI)随机动态系统的可能近似正确(PAC)-Bayesian误差界限。这些界限在机器学习中广泛使用,它们有助于描述从有限数据点学习的模型的预测能力。特别地,本文推导的界限将未来的平均预测误差与模型在用于学习的数据上产生的预测误差联系起来。此外,由于LTI系统是循环神经网络(RNN)的子类,因此这些误差界限可以作为针对RNN的PAC-Bayesian界限的第一步。此外,本文还提供了一种面向广泛学习/系统识别算法的有限样本误差界限。