Using Existential Theory of the Reals to Bound VC Dimension
Using Existential Theory of the Reals to Bound VC Dimension
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2022
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Austin Watkins
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Austin Watkins
We provide new bounds on the VC dimension of range spaces beyond logical compositions of polynomials and other discrete geometric shapes. Our results address the VC dimension of a seemingly simple class of range spaces we call inflated polynomials, which are defined as the Minkowski sum of a polynomial and a ball; in R 2 with degree p the VC dimension is Θ( p ) , and in R d the bound is O ( dp O ( d ) ) . This addresses natural questions on learnability in the adversarially-robust setting for polynomial classifiers and of polynomially-defined trajectories. We use a connection between algebraic geometry and classic circuit-based approaches of bounding the VC dimension to derive our results. We believe this connection and our general results may find other applications in learning theory, range searching, and other aspects of computational geometry where the VC dimension plays a key role.