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We study the Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) density of definable families in certain stable first-order theories. In particular we obtain uniform bounds on VC density of definable families in finite U-rank theories without the finite cover…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-02-10 M. Aschenbrenner , A. Dolich , D. Haskell , D. Macpherson , S. Starchenko

We recast the problem of calculating Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) density into one of counting types, and thereby calculate bounds (often optimal) on the VC density for some weakly o-minimal, weakly quasi-o-minimal, and $P$-minimal theories.

Logic · Mathematics 2011-09-27 M. Aschenbrenner , A. Dolich , D. Haskell , D. Macpherson , S. Starchenko

VC-dimension and VC-density are measures of combinatorial complexity of set systems. VC-dimension was first introduced in the context of statistical learning theory, and is tightly related to the sample complexity in PAC learning.…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-08-03 Bjarki Geir Benediktsson , Dugald Macpherson , Isolde Adler

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

The Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension provides a notion of complexity for systems of sets. If the VC dimension is small, then knowing this can drastically simplify fundamental computational tasks such as classification, range counting, and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Anne Driemel , André Nusser , Jeff M. Phillips , Ioannis Psarros

We study set systems definable in graphs using variants of logic with different expressive power. Our focus is on the notion of Vapnik-Chervonenkis density: the smallest possible degree of a polynomial bounding the cardinalities of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Adam Paszke , Michał Pilipczuk

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 prove a tight bound on the number of realized $0/1$ patterns (or equivalently on the Vapnik-Chervonenkis codensity) of definable families in models of the theory of algebraically closed valued fields with a non-archimedean valuation. Our…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Saugata Basu , Deepam Patel

We study two related quantities which generalize the concept of upper Banach density of a set to two measurable subsets of the plane. The first of them allows us to generalize a classic result on sufficiently large distances realized in a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Bruno Predojević

The Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension is a combinatorial parameter that reflects the "complexity" of a set of sets (a.k.a. concept classes). It has been introduced by Vapnik and Chervonenkis in their seminal 1971 paper and has since found many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Shai Ben-David

Given a domain $X$ and a collection $\mathcal{H}$ of functions $h:X\to \{0,1\}$, the Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension of $\mathcal{H}$ measures its complexity in an appropriate sense. In particular, the fundamental theorem of statistical…

This paper presents some finite combinatorics of set systems with applications to model theory, particularly the study of dependent theories. There are two main results. First, we give a way of producing lower bounds on VC_ind-density, and…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-02-10 Hunter R. Johnson

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

We analyze generalized progressions in some nonabelian groups using a measure of complexity called VC-dimension, which was originally introduced in statistical learning theory by Vapnik and Chervonenkis. Here by a "generalized progression"…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Gabriel Conant , Aycin Iplikci Arodirik , Tora Ozawa , David Zeng

The Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension of a collection of subsets of a set is an important combinatorial concept in settings such as discrete geometry and machine learning. In this paper we prove that the VC dimension of the family of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Christian J. J. Despres

In 1979 Valiant introduced the complexity class VNP of p-definable families of polynomials, he defined the reduction notion known as p-projection and he proved that the permanent polynomial and the Hamiltonian cycle polynomial are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Christian Ikenmeyer , Abhiroop Sanyal

In this paper, we study VC-minimal theories and explore related concepts. We first define the notion of convex orderablility and show that this lies strictly between VC-minimality and dp-minimality. Next, we define the notion of weak…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Vincent Guingona , Michael C. Laskowski

We develop a novel method, based on the statistical concept of the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension, to evaluate the selectivity (output cardinality) of SQL queries - a crucial step in optimizing the execution of large scale database and…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Matteo Riondato , Mert Akdere , Ugur Cetintemel , Stanley B. Zdonik , Eli Upfal

We give a new proof of VC bounds where we avoid the use of symmetrization and use a shadow sample of arbitrary size. We also improve on the variance term. This results in better constants, as shown on numerical examples. Moreover our bounds…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Olivier Catoni

We show that if $\mathcal{X}$ is a complete separable metric space and $\mathcal{C}$ is a countable family of Borel subsets of $\mathcal{X}$ with finite VC dimension, then, for every stationary ergodic process with values in $\mathcal{X}$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-10-18 Terrence M. Adams , Andrew B. Nobel
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