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Discrete Mathematics

Volume 312, Issue 10, 28 May 2012, Pages 1766-1775
Discrete Mathematics

VC bounds on the cardinality of nearly orthogonal function classes

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Abstract

We bound the number of nearly orthogonal vectors with fixed VC-dimension over {1,1}n. Our bounds are of interest in machine learning and empirical process theory and improve previous bounds by Haussler. The bounds are based on a simple projection argument and they generalize to other product spaces. Along the way we derive tight bounds on the sum of binomial coefficients in terms of the entropy function.

Keywords

VC dimension
Packing number
Orthogonal

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