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Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2015 Computational learning theory 1 d i Solution by
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Expanding the squared Euclidean norm givesIn lifted coordinates , this is the closed half-spaceEvery labelling of the original points obtainable by a Euclidean ball is therefore obtainable on their lifted images by an affine linear classifier. The feature map is injective, since it preserves the first coordinates; distinct original points remain distinct. If the original points are shattered, every labelling of the lifted points is realized, as required.
Here “linear separator” means a separator with an intercept, namely an affine hyperplane. If a convention demands strict separation on the finite sample, increase the constant term of the positive score by a sufficiently small positive amount. Positive points then have strictly positive score, and the finitely many negative scores remain strictly negative. A homogeneous separator can alternatively be obtained after adjoining one more constant coordinate; this distinction matters for dimension counts.
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