Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2020 ii Paper 1 31J c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
Because every takes values in , replacing one sample point changes by at most . PutThe lower-tail form of the Bounded differences inequality givesoutside an event of probability at most .
For the excess-loss supremum from part (b), replacing one observation changes by at most . A second application of the same inequality givesoutside another event of probability at most . On the intersection of these two events, symmetrization and the union bound yieldThis event has probability at least , and . Thus
For a zero-one-valued loss class , the excess misclassification risk of an empirical risk minimizer over a population minimizer satisfieswith probability at least . The proof combines Rademacher symmetrization with the Bounded differences inequality for the supremum of the empirical excess-loss process.
The observable version isIt follows by another application of the Bounded differences inequality to the Empirical Rademacher complexity.