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In 1984, Valiant [ 7 ] introduced the Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) learning framework for boolean function classes. Blumer et al. [ 2] extended this model in 1989 by introducing the VC dimension as a tool to characterize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Mohammed Nechba , Mouhajir Mohamed , Sedjari Yassine

Vector Quantization (VQ) is an appealing model compression method to obtain a tiny model with less accuracy loss. While methods to obtain better codebooks and codes under fixed clustering dimensionality have been extensively studied,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Zezhou Zhu , Yucong Zhou , Zhao Zhong

We study the complexity of computing the VC Dimension and Littlestone's Dimension. Given an explicit description of a finite universe and a concept class (a binary matrix whose $(x,C)$-th entry is $1$ iff element $x$ belongs to concept…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Pasin Manurangsi , Aviad Rubinstein

In the Knapsack problem, one is given the task of packing a knapsack of a given size with items in order to gain a packing with a high profit value. An important connection to the $(\max,+)$-convolution problem has been established, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Kilian Grage , Klaus Jansen , Björn Schumacher

The VC dimension measures the capacity of a learning machine, and a low VC dimension leads to good generalization. While SVMs produce state-of-the-art learning performance, it is well known that the VC dimension of a SVM can be unbounded;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Jayadeva

Approximation and learning of classifiers of large data sets by neural networks in terms of high-dimensional geometry and statistical learning theory are investigated. The influence of the VC dimension of sets of input-output functions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Vera Kurkova , Marcello Sanguineti

$ \newcommand{\eps}{\varepsilon} $In learning theory, the VC dimension of a concept class $C$ is the most common way to measure its "richness." In the PAC model $$ \Theta\Big(\frac{d}{\eps} + \frac{\log(1/\delta)}{\eps}\Big) $$ examples are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-08 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Ronald de Wolf

Multi-index models - functions which only depend on the covariates through a non-linear transformation of their projection on a subspace - are a useful benchmark for investigating feature learning with neural nets. This paper examines the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Emanuele Troiani , Yatin Dandi , Leonardo Defilippis , Lenka Zdeborová , Bruno Loureiro , Florent Krzakala

This paper focuses on the relation between computational learning theory and resource-bounded dimension. We intend to establish close connections between the learnability/nonlearnability of a concept class and its corresponding size in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ricard Gavalda , Maria Lopez-Valdes , Elvira Mayordomo , N. V. Vinodchandran

Formal models of learning from teachers need to respect certain criteria to avoid collusion. The most commonly accepted notion of collusion-freeness was proposed by Goldman and Mathias (1996), and various teaching models obeying their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 David Kirkpatrick , Hans U. Simon , Sandra Zilles

We investigate the VC-dimension of the perceptron and simple two-layer networks like the committee- and the parity-machine with weights restricted to values $\pm1$. For binary inputs, the VC-dimension is determined by atypical pattern sets,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Mertens , A. Engel

High dimensional data can have a surprising property: pairs of data points may be easily separated from each other, or even from arbitrary subsets, with high probability using just simple linear classifiers. However, this is more of a rule…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Oliver J. Sutton , Qinghua Zhou , Alexander N. Gorban , Ivan Y. Tyukin

We study the Convex Set Disjointness (CSD) problem, where two players have input sets taken from an arbitrary fixed domain~$U\subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ of size $\lvert U\rvert = n$. Their mutual goal is to decide using minimum communication…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mark Braverman , Gillat Kol , Shay Moran , Raghuvansh R. Saxena

Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension is a fundamental measure of the generalization capacity of learning algorithms. However, apart from a few special cases, it is hard or impossible to calculate analytically. Vapnik et al. [10] proposed a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-11-16 Daniel J. McDonald , Cosma Rohilla Shalizi , Mark Schervish

We discuss the VC-dimension of a class of multiples of integers and primes (equivalently indicator functions) and demonstrate connections to prime counting functions. Additionally, we prove limit theorems for the behavior of an empirical…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Andrew M. Thomas

We describe a general framework -- compressive statistical learning -- for resource-efficient large-scale learning: the training collection is compressed in one pass into a low-dimensional sketch (a vector of random empirical generalized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-23 Rémi Gribonval , Gilles Blanchard , Nicolas Keriven , Yann Traonmilin

We show that the topes of a complex of oriented matroids (abbreviated COM) of VC-dimension $d$ admit a proper labeled sample compression scheme of size $d$. This considerably extends results of Moran and Warmuth on ample classes, of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Victor Chepoi , Kolja Knauer , Manon Philibert

The VC-dimension, introduced by Vapnik and Chervonenkis in 1968 in the context of learning theory, has in recent years provided a rich source of problems in combinatorial geometry. Given $E\subseteq \mathbb{F}_q^d$ or $E\subseteq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Moustapha Diallo , Brian McDonald

In this note we disprove a conjecture of Kuzmin and Warmuth claiming that every family whose VC-dimension is at most d admits an unlabeled compression scheme to a sample of size at most d. We also study the unlabeled compression schemes of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Dömötör Pálvölgyi , Gábor Tardos

Machine learning models with inputs in a Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$, when implemented on digital computers, generalize, and their generalization gap converges to $0$ at a rate of $c/N^{1/2}$ concerning the sample size $N$. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Anastasis Kratsios , A. Martina Neuman , Gudmund Pammer