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Lecture

Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension

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MATH-412: Statistical machine learning

A course on statistical machine learning for supervised and unsupervised learning ...

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This lecture covers learning bounds for the misclassification error, Rademacher complexities for binary classifiers, Massart's lemma, growth function, shattering, and Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension. It also includes examples with linear classifiers and rectangles, Sauer's lemma, polynomial upper bound, and learning bound based on VC dimension.

Instructor

Yoav Zemel

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