Capacity of reproducing kernel spaces in learning theory

  • Authors:
  • Ding-Xuan Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Math., City Univ. of Hong Kong, China

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The capacity of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) plays an essential role in the analysis of learning theory. Covering numbers and packing numbers of balls of these reproducing kernel spaces are important measurements of this capacity. We first present lower bound estimates for the packing numbers by means of nodal functions. Then we show that if a Mercer kernel is Cs (for some s0 being not an even integer), the RKHS associated with this kernel can be embedded into Cs2/. This gives upper-bound estimates for the covering number concerning Sobolev smooth kernels.Examples and applications to Vγ dimension and Tikhonov (1977) regularization are presented to illustrate the upper- and lower-bound estimates.