Cross-validation Confidence Intervals for Test Error

This work develops central limit theorems for cross-validation and consistent estimators of the asymptotic variance under weak stability conditions on the learning algorithm. Together, these results provide practical, asymptotically-exact confidence intervals for k-fold test error and valid, powerful hypothesis tests of whether one learning algorithm has smaller k-fold test error than another. These results are also the first of their kind for the popular choice of leave-one-out cross-validation. In our experiments with diverse learning algorithms, the resulting intervals and tests outperform the most popular alternative methods from the literature.

Authors

• Pierre Bayle
• Alexandre Bayle
• Lucas Janson Harvard University
• Lester Mackey Microsoft Research

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