Optimally compressing VC classes
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04131v2
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:40:11 GMT
- Title: Optimally compressing VC classes
- Abstract summary: Resolving a conjecture of Littlestone and Warmuth, we show that any concept class of VC-dimension $d$ has a sample compression scheme of size $d$.
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- Abstract: Resolving a conjecture of Littlestone and Warmuth, we show that any concept
class of VC-dimension $d$ has a sample compression scheme of size $d$.
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