Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2020 ii Paper 1 31J b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
For define the misclassification lossand take the loss classWrite and , so the misclassification risk and empirical misclassification risk are and .
Because is an empirical risk minimizer, . Hence its excess risk obeysIntroduce an independent ghost sample and perform Rademacher symmetrization. The contribution involving the fixed function has zero expectation over the Rademacher signs, so each of the two independent sample terms has supremum expectation . Therefore
Every difference takes values in . Replacing one observation can consequently change by at most . Applying the Bounded differences inequality with gives, except on an event of probability at most ,Combining these inequalities proves, with probability at least ,
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.