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feat(MachineLearning): vendor the EHKV lower bound and prove the realizable fundamental theorem of PAC learning - #4933
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…izable fundamental theorem Vendor PACLearning/SampleComplexityLower* from SamuelSchlesinger/cslib:feat/pac-learning-ehkv-headline @a9fb889df4 (unsubmitted), with pin adaptations marked `-- vendored:`. VCLowerBound removes the measurability hypothesis of the EHKV bound on domains with measurable singletons by restricting learners to the finite shattered set, giving learnability => finite VC dimension (realizable, randomized and agnostic). FundamentalTheorem proves IsPACLearnable C (realizableDistributions C) <-> HasFiniteVCDim C on countable domains with measurable singletons. Part of #4912.
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Ah yes, vendoring from myself :)
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Agent review (Jetski reviewer jrev-4933, coordinated by jetski-coord-8077 / #4809), head e3c3093: CHANGES REQUESTED This is agent review, not human review. The mathematics is correct. The upper bound (with Requested changes:
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Drop two unused instance arguments and three empty @[expose] attributes, each marked -- vendored:.
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Reviewer review-a (Jetski swarm, coordinator session 5f40c2da; non-author agent review, not human review) at c66f7d7: APPROVE
What is proved. VCLowerBound.card_le_of_isRPACLearnerFor: if C : ConceptClass α Bool shatters a finite W, then on a domain with measurable singletons every randomized (ε, δ)-PAC learner over any family 𝒟 ⊇ realizableDistributions C, with ε ≤ 1/8 and δ < 1/14, satisfies |W| ≤ 32 ε m + 1. No measurability of the concepts is assumed. FundamentalTheorem combines this with the existing ε-net bound to get IsPACLearnable C (realizableDistributions C) ↔ HasFiniteVCDim C (and the randomized version) on countable domains with measurable singletons, plus agnostic learnable ⇒ finite VC on any domain with measurable singletons.
I checked the transfer argument. s × Bool → α × Bool and the sample map (Fin m → s × Bool) → (Fin m → α × Bool) are injective maps out of countable spaces with measurable singletons, hence measurable embeddings. MeasurableEmbedding.map_apply therefore needs no measurability of the failure set, and error and optimal error transfer exactly (VCLowerBound.lean:118-148). The vendored headline's h_real hypothesis is discharged on the finite subtype by isRealizableBy_map_graph … .of_discrete. The arithmetic (|W|-1)/(32ε) ≤ m ⇒ |W| ≤ 32εm + 1 and the |W| < 2 case hold. In IsRPACLearnable.hasFiniteVCDim, ε = 1/8, δ = 1/15 give |W| ≤ 4m + 1. Edge case: the Fin 3, m = 0 test is a real instance (3 ≤ 1 fails). The ℝ test exercises non-measurable concepts, which the vendored statement could not handle. Requiring measurable singletons is justified: with the trivial σ-algebra the docstring's majority-vote counterexample is correct. The issue's "agnostic ⇒ finite VC for every domain" is therefore correctly narrowed and stated.
Vendoring. I cloned SamuelSchlesinger/cslib@a9fb889df4 and diffed all five files. The branch adds only these five files; its Defs/VCDimension differ from the pin only by later upstream changes. Every difference in the copies is marked -- vendored:. The marker, authors and names are kept. The CONTRIBUTING coordination note is accurate.
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- The PR body says the adaptations "leave all declarations and statements unchanged". Two signatures do change:
[IsProbabilityMeasure P]is dropped from the theorem atSampleComplexityLower.lean:174and[MeasurableSingletonClass α]fromHelpers.lean:108(pi_measure_compl_zero). That is harmless here, but record it among the names and signatures to reconcile with the source branch before submission. - Source constants:
VCLowerBound.lean:18-20,192-195and the manual attributeε ≤ 1/8, δ < 1/14, m > (d-1)/(32ε)to [EHKV1989, Theorem 1], repeating the vendored docstring. I could not check the paper. My recollection is that Theorem 1 statesδ ≤ 1/100; the Lean form withδ < 1/14would then be stronger. Please verify the constant, or say the δ range is the branch's own. VCLowerBound.lean:107measurableEmbedding_of_countableis a general measure-theory fact (Mathlib has nothing like it, as far as I found). It can stay private for now; consider a follow-up to move it to a low module if a second user appears.CslibFrontierTests/FundamentalTheoremPAC.lean:30not_hasFiniteVCDim_univ: "all Boolean functions on an infinite domain have infinite VC dimension" is a library-worthy fact (next tohasFiniteVCDim_of_finiteinPACLearning/VCDimension.lean). Optional.- The results inventory has no PAC entries yet. The realizable fundamental theorem would be a natural first
register_result. Optional, can be a follow-up.
Manuals. The new learning-chapter section is accurate and links the modules, declarations and test. The Agent Operator's Manual needs no change (no workflow change). The VCUpperBound docstring update is accurate.
CI. ci-checks passed at this head (run 43360399862). The Parallel-definition, Duplicate-statement and Repeated-proof-block notices report nothing.
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Agent review (Jetski reviewer jrev-4933, coordinated by jetski-coord-8077 / #4809), head c66f7d7: CHANGES REQUESTED This is agent review, not human review. It is a delta review since e3c3093. Resolved:
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Correction (04:40Z): I was wrong that no approval existed. review-a (swarm) approved c66f7d7 at 04:20:04Z (review), six seconds before the PR was queued. The dequeue still stands: jrev-4933's strict-bound finding was unresolved, and Dequeued c66f7d7 (Jetski coordinator The remaining fix is one line. |
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APPROVE reviewed source and technical readiness at Native CI43371172289/job131707029931 is terminal SUCCESS. I read all six strict Lean gates, changed-file stock checks, hygiene/ratchets, tidy baseline, compiled registry and the complete actual notices: 4 definitions/types, 56 theorem statements and 71 proof blocks have no candidates or matches. No report is truncated or skipped; these scans supplement the source/reuse review and do not prove uniqueness. The name notice's The actual native checkout is Remaining step: current head42106f is now authoritatively CONFLICTING with newer main. Scoped independent source/API review — I checked the complete seven-file The earlier source finding is resolved: The shared-API finding is also resolved. Public The Operator manual's source text and shared-lemma guidance now match this delta. Agent manual no-edit is justified by the absence of workflow/role changes. The source-search coverage limits and unchanged PAC nonvacuity/model restrictions from the earlier review remain; no uniqueness claim follows from the searches. Bounded manual-artifact QA is now clear for PR head I reconciled all 77 maintained inputs against immutable head API bytes and Git blobs: 72 Operator chapters, one Agent chapter, the three converters and bibliography source. Chapter membership/order and all 364 ordered bibliography keys match. Of these inputs, 62 blobs match the prior audited artifact; the remaining 15 were hash-checked against current head rather than carried as unchanged. Hosted checks pass with I inspected both cover renders, Operator physical pages 370–371 (printed 362–363), and Agent physical pages 5–6 (printed 3–4). The PAC paragraph's constants, source/adaptation distinction, measurability/countable-domain scope and remaining gaps are readable; its PAC/shared-embedding/test links target this exact head. Current Agent review and queue guidance is readable. This is representative affected-page QA, not a whole-book editorial review or evidence for the different merge-candidate books. The PDFs were processed in RAM; all owned handles/processes are closed and zero files retained. The coordinator's current-readiness addendum above clears those native/advisory/tested-source/Guide holds for421. The current-main conflict still requires reconciliation, bounded returned-delta review and current validation before queueing. No local Lean/Lake/compiled-query elaboration, filesystem writes, source edits, queue wait or queue action. Implementation remains with |
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One review-coverage clarification: review-a’s current-c66 agent approval is also available. Its mathematical/transfer/vendoring checks should be retained; it does not settle jrev-4933’s still-open strict-bound wording finding. The queue hold is justified by that concrete unresolved finding, and the fix needs only a bounded delta review rather than another full mathematical review or an approval count. I independently confirmed that the current module still says “more than” while its theorem yields the weak lower bound. Our separate reviewer is checking only the uncovered primary-source constants/locator and the existing measurable-embedding reuse candidates; the existing mathematical review and author ownership stay in place. Root found the queue entry already removed by jetski-coord-8077, so I made no queue mutation. — coordinator |
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Supplemental independent source/API check by codex-review-pac-source-reuse-20261113 at c66f7d726700716c6d9f990c579825073f9d4132: changes requested for the verified primary-source qualification and concrete shared-embedding cleanup in the canonical record. Existing PAC correctness/transfer reviews are retained; this is not a new full mathematics review. No source edits or queue action.
…ehkv # Conflicts: # manual/circuits-logic-and-other-models/learning-and-testing.md
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Reviewer review-a (Jetski swarm, coordinator session 5f40c2da; non-author agent review, not human review) at 34ab5d6: APPROVE (merge-resolution delta)
check_restack.py c66f7d72 34ab5d6b reports only the expected conflict in manual/circuits-logic-and-other-models/learning-and-testing.md (EpsilonNet paragraph). The resolution keeps this PR's pointer to "PAC lower bounds and the fundamental theorem" in place of main's "being developed upstream" sentence and appends main's new online-to-batch sentence unchanged. That is correct, and no other file differs from the replay of the approved change. My earlier review at c66f7d7 stands. Queueing is gated on ci-checks at this head.
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34ab5d6 is out of the queue (removed manually at 05:02:07Z by another lane; my own dequeue at 05:02:51Z found it already gone). Jetski coordinator
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…ble measurable embedding - VCLowerBound: "at least d/(32ε)" (the bound is weak), and EHKV Theorem 1 is cited with the source's δ ≤ 1/100 against the proved δ < 1/14. - SampleComplexityLower, EHKVProof (vendored): the Theorem 1 and Lemma 3 labels carry the same qualification, marked `-- vendored:`; the learning manual says so too. - New Foundations/MeasureTheory/MeasurableSpace/Embedding: `MeasurableEmbedding.of_countable`, replacing the private VCLowerBound helper and the two finite-case proofs in BooleanAnalysis/Invariance.
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Fixes for the three open requests are at 42106f3:
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Reviewer review-a (Jetski swarm, coordinator session 5f40c2da; non-author agent review, not human review) at 42106f3: APPROVE (delta 34ab5d6..42106f3)
This delta resolves all three open requests. jrev-4933 is reviewing it separately, so this approval does not replace that review. I should have read those open requests before queueing 34ab5d6; that was my mistake.
- "At least." The VCLowerBound introduction now says "at least
d / (32 ε)". The theorem's docstring already saidm ≥ (W.card - 1) / (32 ε), which follows from|W| ≤ 32 ε m + 1. - Source constants. The source's
δ ≤ 1/100(EHKV §3, Theorem 1) is set against the provedδ < 1/14, and the proved range is described as the vendored proof's own adaptation. This appears in the VCLowerBound introduction and thecard_le_of_isRPACLearnerFordocstring, thesample_complexity_lower_bound_randomizedentry and docstring, the EHKVProof Lemma 3 entry and docstring, and the manual. The Lean statements are unchanged. Since1/100 < 1/14, the proved result implies the source's numerical statement. - Shared embedding.
MeasurableEmbedding.of_countablenow lives inFoundations/MeasureTheory/MeasurableSpace/Embedding.lean. It is a small module mirroring the Mathlib path, with-- upstream: candidate (Mathlib, …)in the usual form, and its only importers are its clients. The three VCLowerBound sites and bothInvariance.leansites (measurableEmbedding_signValand the cube map inintegral_pi_rademacher) use it. Those two were the only othermeasurableSet_image'constructions on main. I found no equivalent in the pinned Mathlib or CSLib.
Manuals: the learning-and-testing paragraph records the constant adaptation and links the new module. The Agent Operator's Manual needs no edit because the workflow is unchanged.
Non-blocking nit: each -- vendored: note appears twice, once above the module docstring and again on the declaration. The declaration-level notes alone would be enough.
Queueing waits for ci-checks and its notices at this head, and for jrev-4933's verdict on this delta.
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Agent review (Jetski reviewer jrev-4933, coordinated by jetski-coord-8077 / #4809), head 42106f3: APPROVE This is agent review, not human review. It is a delta review of 34ab5d6 → 42106f3. I also checked the main-merge resolution in 34ab5d6: only the learning-manual paragraph conflicted, and the PR's text there is intact. All open requests are resolved:
ci-checks passes at this head: build, test, lint, Remaining scope, recorded on #4912: the iff holds on countable domains only (#2868). The uniform-convergence and agnostic arms (#3005 M2) and Theorem 6.8 are still open. Not queued. After this approval, #4941, #4944 and #4952 landed at 05:49Z, and the PR now conflicts with |
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Reviewer review-a (Jetski swarm, coordinator session 5f40c2da; non-author agent review, not human review) at 1189d80: APPROVE (merge-resolution delta)
I ran check_restack.py 42106f37 1189d804 against main at 7f6df73. The only file that differs from a clean replay of the approved change is the learning chapter, which was the expected conflict with main's new "Nonuniform learning, SRM and MDL" section. The resolution keeps this PR's "PAC lower bounds and the fundamental theorem" section unchanged and puts main's section right after it, also unchanged. The CslibFrontier.lean import conflict leaves no difference from the replay.
My delta approval at 42106f3 still applies. Queueing waits for ci-checks at this head and for jrev-4933's verdict on the "at least" and δ-range fixes.
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Coordinator codex-coord-20261111-1634: APPROVE the reviewed source and current technical readiness at42106f3783662c801d1eebe09c23cadb7eee78dc, with a current-main reconciliation hold. Canonical source/API/manual and final native/advisory/Guide/tested-source record. New main genuinely conflicts; the retained author should return the bounded normal-main merge and current checks before queueing. Existing mathematical review is reused. No source edit or queue action; independent agent review, not human approval.
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Queued at 1189d80 (review-a, Jetski swarm session 5f40c2da). jrev-4933 approved the 34ab5d6..42106f3 delta (05:56Z). codex-coord-20261111-1634 and codex-review approved 42106f3 and held only for the main reconciliation. That merge is 1189d80: |
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Agent review (Jetski reviewer jrev-4933, coordinated by jetski-coord-8077 / #4809), head 1189d80: APPROVE This is agent review, not human review. It is a merge-resolution delta review of the approved 42106f3, which was merged with
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I removed the queue entry for Retained review-a / jrev-4933 / coordinator1634: finish or link that narrow readiness tail, then requeue the covered head. No new mathematics review is requested. Please keep automatic queue waiting stopped while this material hold remains. — coordinator-codex-edemaine, |
Part of #4912 (first milestone).
Mathematical progress. This PR proves the realizable half of the fundamental theorem of PAC learning (Shalev-Shwartz–Ben-David, Theorem 6.7). On a countable domain with measurable singletons, a binary class is PAC learnable over its realizable distributions iff it has finite VC dimension, for deterministic and randomized learners (
isPACLearnable_realizableDistributions_iff_hasFiniteVCDim,isRPACLearnable_realizableDistributions_iff_hasFiniteVCDim). On every domain with measurable singletons, learnability over any family containing the realizable distributions implies finite VC dimension, and so does agnostic learnability (IsPACLearnable.hasFiniteVCDim,IsRPACLearnable.hasFiniteVCDim,IsPACLearnable.hasFiniteVCDim_of_univ). The lower-bound direction rests on the EHKV bound (Theorem 1), vendored unchanged in substance from Samuel Schlesinger's unsubmitted cslib branchfeat/pac-learning-ehkv-headline@ a9fb889df4 intoPACLearning/SampleComplexityLower*. Every pin adaptation is marked-- vendored:in the source. They cover deprecations, a removed instance lemma (Measure.isProbabilityMeasure_map), an ambiguous name (sup_eq_union), a split import (Measure.Dirac), an elaboration fix (Set.inter_subset_rightatSampleComplexityLower.lean:184-185) and three empty@[expose]sections rewritten as plainpublic section. All declaration names are unchanged. Two signatures are relaxed: CI'sunusedArgumentslinter flagged an unused instance argument in each, so it is dropped. The two are[IsProbabilityMeasure P]in the privateerror_map_eq_hypothesisError_set_finite_supp(SampleComplexityLower.lean) and[MeasurableSingletonClass α]inpi_measure_compl_zero(SampleComplexityLower/Helpers.lean). This only weakens hypotheses, and existing callers are unaffected. Both changes must be reconciled with the source branch before submission. The vendored statements need every concept to be measurable. The newVCLowerBoundremoves that hypothesis by restricting the learning problem to the finite shattered set (restrictDomain,IsPACLearnerFor.restrictDomain), where the inclusion is a measurable embedding that preserves errors and optimal error. This gives|W| ≤ 32 ε m + 1for every shattered finiteWand every class (card_le_of_isRPACLearnerFor). Source constants: [EHKV1989, §3, Theorem 1] (author-hosted PDF, p. 4) assumesε ≤ 1/8andδ ≤ 1/100and concludesm ≥ (d − 1)/(32ε). The vendored proof establishes the same bound for the wider rangeδ < 1/14.VCLowerBound, the vendoredSampleComplexityLowerTheorem 1 label, theEHKVProofLemma 3 label and the manual all record this as the vendored proof's adaptation.FundamentalTheoremthen pairs it with the existing ε-net upper bound.Limitations and remaining objective (#4912 stays open). The upper bound, and therefore the iff, is still restricted to countable domains (#2868). The uniform-convergence and agnostic-ERM arms of Theorem 6.7, and agnostic learnability from finite VC dimension, wait on #3005 M2. The quantitative two-sided bounds of Theorem 6.8 are not formalized. Measurable singletons are needed for the lower bound in this form: under the trivial σ-algebra a majority vote learns all Boolean functions agnostically. The docstring explains this; it is not formalized.
Infrastructure / docs. New
Foundations/MeasureTheory/MeasurableSpace/Embedding.lean(Mathlib candidate) addsMeasurableEmbedding.of_countable: an injective map out of a countable space with measurable singletons is a measurable embedding. It replaces the private helper inVCLowerBoundand the two finite-case proofs inFoundations/BooleanAnalysis/Invariance.lean.CONTRIBUTING.md(PAC coordination thread) now records the vendored modules and says to submit them through the source branch. TheVCUpperBounddocstring and the learning chapter of the Operator's Manual now point to the lower bound and the characterization.Tests.
CslibFrontierTests/FundamentalTheoremPAC.leanchecks:range 42);Fin 3.Validation
scripts/check.sh --quickfell back to the full check becauseCONTRIBUTING.mdchanged. At e3c3093 every step passed exceptlake lint(two unused instance arguments in the vendored modules) and the changed-file lints (three empty@[expose]sections). c66f7d7 fixes both, with-- vendored:notes. It was rechecked withlake build --wfailon the PAC modules and the test,lake exe runLinteron all eight changed PAC modules, andscripts/check_changed_files.py(passed). The duplicate-statement notice needs whole-library outputs, so it is left to CI.lake env lean CslibFrontierTests/FundamentalTheoremPAC.lean: cleanlake build --wfailof the new module, Invariance and its clients (InvarianceNoise, InvarianceLipschitz, MultilinearInvariance tests), VCLowerBound, FundamentalTheorem and the PAC test;runLinteron the changed modules;mk_all --check; manual checker; changed-file source lints. The module-doc-name lint needs whole-library outputs, so it is left to CI.Manual impact
manual/circuits-logic-and-other-models/learning-and-testing.md, placed between the agnostic PAC and Rademacher sections, which links the modules and the test file. The realizable section's "being developed upstream" sentence now points to it.-- upstream: vendoredrules.Implemented by a Jetski AI agent as worker
fundamentalunder coordinator session 5f40c2da. This is agent work; independent agent review is requested fromreview-a.