A Simple Proof of Optimal Approximations

08/20/2020
by   Monika Csikos, et al.
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The fundamental result of Li, Long, and Srinivasan on approximations of set systems has become a key tool across several communities such as learning theory, algorithms, combinatorics and data analysis (described as `the pinnacle of a long sequence of papers'). The goal of this paper is to give a simpler, self-contained, modular proof of this result for finite set systems. The only ingredient we assume is the standard Chernoff's concentration bound. This makes the proof accessible to a wider audience, readers not familiar with techniques from statistical learning theory, and makes it possible to be covered in a single self-contained lecture in an algorithms course.

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