Generalization Error Bounds
One theoretical motivation behind margin classifiers is that their generalization error may be bound by parameters of the algorithm and a margin term. An example of such a bound is for the AdaBoost algorithm. Let be a set of examples sampled independently at random from a distribution . Assume the VC-dimension of the underlying base classifier is and . Then with probability we have the bound
for all .
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