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M09.3 CONNECT THE MECHANISM

What can a learning guarantee actually guarantee?

How many frosty nights must a vineyard record before its frost alarm can be trusted? Learning theory gives a real answer, and shows why it goes quiet for deep networks.

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Lesson overview

How many frosty nights must a vineyard record before its frost alarm can be trusted? Learning theory gives a real answer, and shows why it goes quiet for deep networks.

What you’ll explore

  • Learning theory links model capacity, sample size, error, and confidence; its bounds guide intuition but don't certify a deployed network.
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Original explanations, connected to the research.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning — authors’ materialsUnderstanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms (Shalev-Shwartz & Ben-David, 2014)Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization (Zhang et al., 2017)
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