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Dimension lower bounds for linear approaches to function approximation

Published: August 18, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2508.13346v1

By: Daniel Hsu

Potential Business Impact:

Finds how much data computers need to learn.

This short note presents a linear algebraic approach to proving dimension lower bounds for linear methods that solve $L^2$ function approximation problems. The basic argument has appeared in the literature before (e.g., Barron, 1993) for establishing lower bounds on Kolmogorov $n$-widths. The argument is applied to give sample size lower bounds for kernel methods.

Page Count
5 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Machine Learning (CS)