Poster
The Sample Complexity of Level Set Approximation
Francois Bachoc · Tommaso Cesari · Sébastien Gerchinovitz
Keywords: [ Online Learning ] [ Learning Theory and Statistics ]
We study the problem of approximating the level set of an unknown function by sequentially querying its values. We introduce a family of algorithms called Bisect and Approximate through which we reduce the level set approximation problem to a local function approximation problem. We then show how this approach leads to rate-optimal sample complexity guarantees for Hölder functions, and we investigate how such rates improve when additional smoothness or other structural assumptions hold true.