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A note on sample complexity of learning binary output neural networks under fixed input distributions

Machine Learning 2016-11-17 v1

Abstract

We show that the learning sample complexity of a sigmoidal neural network constructed by Sontag (1992) required to achieve a given misclassification error under a fixed purely atomic distribution can grow arbitrarily fast: for any prescribed rate of growth there is an input distribution having this rate as the sample complexity, and the bound is asymptotically tight. The rate can be superexponential, a non-recursive function, etc. We further observe that Sontag's ANN is not Glivenko-Cantelli under any input distribution having a non-atomic part.

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@article{arxiv.1007.1282,
  title  = {A note on sample complexity of learning binary output neural networks under fixed input distributions},
  author = {Vladimir Pestov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.1282},
  year   = {2016}
}

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6 pages, latex in IEEE conference proceedings format

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