"""Claims 4 and 5: the delayed generalization gap (Theorems 3 and 4). Theorem 3 (1-Lipschitz, 1-smooth loss): F^gen_{k,K} = E_{D_k}[ F_k(w_K) - Fhat_k(w_K) ] <~ eta*T*exp(eta*T*(K-k+1)/sqrt(m)) / n Theorem 4 (additionally self-bounded loss, e.g. logistic): F^gen_{k,K} <~ (eta/n) * E[ exp((eta/sqrt(m)) c_{k,K}) * sum_{tk} sum_{t 4000 # doubles the Monte-Carlo error on F_k(w) alone, which is small next to the # seed-to-seed spread. SEEDS = list(range(10)) def one(job): sweep, override, seed = job cfg = dict(BASE) cfg.update(override) cfg["seed"] = seed r = C.continual_run(**cfg) K, T, eta, n, m = cfg["K"], cfg["T"], cfg["eta"], cfg["n"], cfg["m"] k = 0 # audit task 1 rec = dict(sweep=sweep, **{kk: vv for kk, vv in cfg.items() if kk != "n_test"}) rec["gen_gap"] = C.gen_gap(r, k) rec["gen_gap_per_k"] = [C.gen_gap(r, kk) for kk in range(K)] rec["train_forget"] = C.train_forgetting(r, k) rec["test_forget"] = C.test_forgetting(r, k) rec["cum_train_loss"] = list(r["cum_train_loss"]) # sum_t Fhat_j(w_j^(t)) rec["train_loss_end"] = float(r["loss_at"][K - 1, k]) rec["test_loss_end"] = float(r["test_loss_at"][K - 1, k]) rec["err_at"] = r["err_at"].tolist() rec["test_err_at"] = r["test_err_at"].tolist() rec["dist"] = list(r["dist"]) # Theorem 3 / Theorem 4 right-hand sides (up to the universal constant). # We record the exponents separately because they are only benign when # eta*T*(K-k+1)/sqrt(m) = O(1) -- see the Claim 4/5 pages. ck = float(sum(r["cum_train_loss"][k + 1:])) rec["c_kK"] = ck rec["exponent_thm3"] = float(eta * T * (K - k) / np.sqrt(m)) rec["exponent_thm4"] = float(eta * ck / np.sqrt(m)) rec["rhs_thm3_core"] = float(eta * T / n) # eta*T/n rec["rhs_thm4_core"] = float((eta / n) * r["cum_train_loss"][k]) rec["rhs_thm3"] = float(rec["rhs_thm3_core"] * np.exp(min(rec["exponent_thm3"], 700.0))) rec["rhs_thm4"] = float(rec["rhs_thm4_core"] * np.exp(min(rec["exponent_thm4"], 700.0))) return rec def build(): jobs = [] # (a) sample size -> both bounds predict 1/n for n in [50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200]: for s in SEEDS: jobs.append(("n", dict(n=n), s)) # (b) training horizon -> Thm 3 linear in T vs Thm 4 polylog in T for T in [25, 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600]: for s in SEEDS: jobs.append(("T", dict(T=T), s)) # (c) width -> controls the exponential factor in both bounds for m in [100, 300, 1000, 3000, 10000]: for s in SEEDS: jobs.append(("m", dict(m=m), s)) # (d) number of tasks for K in [2, 3, 4, 6]: for s in SEEDS: jobs.append(("K", dict(K=K), s)) return jobs if __name__ == "__main__": jobs = build() print(len(jobs), "runs", flush=True) t0 = time.time() with Pool(C.NPROC) as p: recs = [] for i, r in enumerate(p.imap_unordered(one, jobs)): recs.append(r) if (i + 1) % 50 == 0: print(f" {i+1}/{len(jobs)} {time.time()-t0:.0f}s", flush=True) with open(os.path.join(OUT, "exp4_gengap.json"), "w") as f: json.dump(recs, f) print("wrote exp4_gengap.json", f"{time.time()-t0:.0f}s")