This course will give a detailed introduction to learning theory with a focus on the classification problem. It will be shown how to obtain (pobabilistic) bounds on the generalization error for certain types of algorithms. The main themes will be: * probabilistic inequalities and concentration inequalities * union bounds, chaining * measuring the size of a function class, Vapnik Chervonenkis dimension, shattering dimension and Rademacher averages * classification with real-valued functions Some knowledge of probability theory would be helpful but not required since the main tools will be introduced.
D. Diochnos, S. Mahloujifar, and M. Mahmoody. (2018)cite arxiv:1810.12272Comment: Full version of a work with the same title that will appear in NIPS 2018, 31 pages containing 5 figures, 1 table, 2 algorithms.