Exact Risk-Complexity Laws for Projective Boundaries in Scenario Optimization and Distribution-Free Certification

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本文探讨了在场景优化和无分布认证中,通过确定性边界机制及随机观察边界大小来精确计算违反风险的方法。
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Scenario optimization, conformal prediction, and related distribution-free certification methods use finite samples to construct decisions or prediction sets with violation-risk guarantees for fresh observations. In several classical settings, the conditional violation risk follows an exact beta law, whose tail has a beta-binomial representation and whose parameter is a support, calibration, or compression dimension. This paper identifies the deterministic boundary mechanism behind these formulas and derives the corresponding law when the observed boundary size is random. A decision rule is represented by an acceptance set for future observations, together with a boundary map selecting the sample points responsible for that set. The resulting pair is called a {\em proper projective boundary scheme} when held-out samples are accepted precisely if the full-sample boundary is retained, and accepted non-boundary samples can be deleted without changing that boundary. For every such scheme, the conditional law of the violation risk given the observed boundary size is determined by the boundary's cross-sample complexity profile. A stable profile yields the usual beta law, whereas a varying profile produces an exact profile correction. The framework covers scalar order-statistic calibration, support-reconstructive scenario programs, cascaded support-removal certificates, coordinatewise envelopes, and Pareto-frontier calibration with vector scores. It also yields conditional probabilistic certificates and a no-go result explaining why observed complexity alone is insufficient.
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scenario optimization
distribution-free certification
violation risk
projective boundary
sample complexity
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proper projective boundary scheme
cross-sample complexity profile
scenario optimization
distribution-free certification
violation-risk guarantees
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Giuseppe C. Calafiore
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy