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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 ii Paper 4 30L c Solution by
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The hypothesis class and margin loss areandThus this is a positive semidefinite quadratic-form classifier with logistic loss. Its empirical risk, viewed as a function of the matrix parameter, isDifferentiating under the sum shows thatHence the displayed is exactly , and the algorithm is projected gradient descent on the positive semidefinite trace ball.
The scalar factor multiplying each lies in . Sincewe have the uniform gradient boundLet parametrize the empirical minimizer . Positive semidefiniteness givesThus the initial distance from to is at most , while the gradient bound is .
The averaged projected-gradient bound, in its slightly looser formapplies because is convex. ChooseSubstitution gives
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