Making Vapnik-Chervonenkis bounds accurate

  • Leon Bottou

in Festschrift in Honor of Alexei Chervonenkis

Published by Springer | 2014 | Festschrift in Honor of Alexei Chervonenkis edition

with comments and rejoinder.

Publication

This chapter shows how returning to the combinatorial nature of the Vapnik-Chervonenkis bounds provides simple ways to increase their accuracy, take into account properties of the data and of the learning algorithm, and provide empirically accurate estimates of the deviation between training error and testing error.