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A new PAC bound for intersection-closed concept classes
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For hyper-rectangles in R-d Auer (1997) proved a PAC bound of O(1/epsilon (d + log 1/delta)), where epsilon and delta are the accuracy and confidence parameters. It is still an open question whether one can obtain the same bound for intersection-closed concept classes of VC-dimension d in general. We present a step towards a solution of this problem showing on one hand a new PAC bound of O(1/epsilon (d log d + log 1/delta)) for arbitrary intersection-closed concept classes, complementing the well-known bounds O(1/epsilon (log 1/delta + d log 1/epsilon)) and O(d/epsilon log 1/delta) of Blumer et al. ( 1989) and Haussler, Littlestone and Warmuth ( 1994). Our bound is established using the closure algorithm, that generates as its hypothesis the intersection of all concepts that are consistent with the positive training examples. On the other hand, we show that many intersection-closed concept classes including e. g. maximum intersection-closed classes satisfy an additional combinatorial property that allows a proof of the optimal bound of O(1/epsilon (d + log 1/delta)). For such improved bounds the choice of the learning algorithm is crucial, as there are consistent learning algorithms that need Tau(1/epsilon (d log 1/epsilon + log 1/delta)) examples to learn some particular maximum intersection-closed concept classes.
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PAC bounds
intersection-closed classes
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