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For any family of measurable sets in a probability space, we show that either (i) the family has infinite Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension or (ii) for every epsilon > 0 there is a finite partition pi such the pi-boundary of each set has…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-10-22 Terrence M. Adams , Andrew B. Nobel

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

Uniform laws of large numbers form a cornerstone of Vapnik--Chervonenkis theory, where they are characterized by the finiteness of the VC dimension. In this work, we study uniform convergence phenomena in cartesian product spaces, under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Ron Holzman , Shay Moran , Alexander Shlimovich

Bounds on the risk play a crucial role in statistical learning theory. They usually involve as capacity measure of the model studied the VC dimension or one of its extensions. In classification, such "VC dimensions" exist for models taking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-06-26 Yann Guermeur

The condensed nearest neighbor (CNN) algorithm is a heuristic for reducing the number of prototypical points stored by a nearest neighbor classifier, while keeping the classification rule given by the reduced prototypical set consistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Eric Christiansen

In this work we study the quantitative relation between VC-dimension and two other basic parameters related to learning and teaching. Namely, the quality of sample compression schemes and of teaching sets for classes of low VC-dimension.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Shay Moran , Amir Shpilka , Avi Wigderson , Amir Yehudayoff

The Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension of the set of half-spaces of R^d with frontiers parallel to the axes is computed exactly. It is shown that it is much smaller than the intuitive value of d. A good approximation based on the Stirling's…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-21 Servane Gey

The VC-dimension is a well-studied and fundamental complexity measure of a set system (or hypergraph) that is central to many areas of machine learning. We establish several new results on the complexity of computing the VC-dimension. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Florent Foucaud , Harmender Gahlawat , Fionn Mc Inerney , Prafullkumar Tale

Following recent work on the VC-dimension of subsets of various pseudorandom graphs, we study the VC-dimension of Hamming graphs, which have proved somewhat resistant to the standard techniques in the literature. Our methods are elementary,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Christopher Housholder , Layna Mangiapanello , Steven Senger

The existence of evasion attacks during the test phase of machine learning algorithms represents a significant challenge to both their deployment and understanding. These attacks can be carried out by adding imperceptible perturbations to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-07 Daniel Cullina , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Prateek Mittal

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

We study VC-dimension of short formulas in Presburger Arithmetic, defined to have a bounded number of variables, quantifiers and atoms. We give both lower and upper bounds, which are tight up to a polynomial factor in the bit length of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Danny Nguyen , Igor Pak

The fundamental theorem of statistical learning states that binary PAC learning is governed by a single parameter -- the Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension -- which determines both learnability and sample complexity. Extending this to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Alon Cohen , Liad Erez , Steve Hanneke , Tomer Koren , Yishay Mansour , Shay Moran , Qian Zhang

We study the VC-dimension of the set system on the vertex set of some graph which is induced by the family of its $k$-connected subgraphs. In particular, we give tight upper and lower bounds for the VC-dimension. Moreover, we show that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Andrea Munaro

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged in recent years as a powerful tool to learn tasks across a wide range of graph domains in a data-driven fashion; based on a message passing mechanism, GNNs have gained increasing popularity due to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-03 Giuseppe Alessio D'Inverno , Monica Bianchini , Franco Scarselli

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing a linear functional subject to uncertain linear and bilinear matrix inequalities, which depend in a possibly nonlinear way on a vector of uncertain parameters. Motivated by recent results…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Fabrizio Dabbene , Roberto Tempo , Venkatakrishnan Venkataramanan , Qing-Guo Wang

The VC-dimension of a set system is a way to capture its complexity and has been a key parameter studied extensively in machine learning and geometry communities. In this paper, we resolve two longstanding open problems on bounding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Monika Csikos , Andrey Kupavskii , Nabil H. Mustafa

VC-dimension and $\varepsilon$-nets are key concepts in Statistical Learning Theory. Intuitively, VC-dimension is a measure of the size of a class of sets. The famous $\varepsilon$-net theorem, a fundamental result in Discrete Geometry,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Sujoy Bhore , Devdan Dey , Satyam Singh

Recently, many works studied the expressive power of graph neural networks (GNNs) by linking it to the $1$-dimensional Weisfeiler--Leman algorithm ($1\text{-}\mathsf{WL}$). Here, the $1\text{-}\mathsf{WL}$ is a well-studied heuristic for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Christopher Morris , Floris Geerts , Jan Tönshoff , Martin Grohe

The Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension measures the complexity of a learning machine, and a low VC dimension leads to good generalization. The recently proposed Minimal Complexity Machine (MCM) learns a hyperplane classifier by minimizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Jayadeva , Sanjit Singh Batra , Siddarth Sabharwal