LGCOJan 11, 2022

Optimally compressing VC classes

arXiv:2201.04131v2
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This resolves a foundational problem in computational learning theory, with implications for model compression and generalization in machine learning.

The authors resolved a long-standing conjecture by Littlestone and Warmuth, proving that any concept class with VC-dimension d has a sample compression scheme of size d.

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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