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Queries and Concept Learning

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Dana AngluinAuthors Info & Claims

Machine Learning, Volume 2, Issue 4

Pages 319 - 342

https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022821128753

Published: 01 April 1988 Publication History

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We consider the problem of using queries to learn an unknown concept. Several types of queries are described and studied: membership, equivalence, subset, superset, disjointness, and exhaustiveness queries. Examples are given of efficient learning methods using various subsets of these queries for formal domains, including the regular languages, restricted classes of context-free languages, the pattern languages, and restricted types of prepositional formulas. Some general lower bound techniques are given. Equivalence queries are compared with Valiant's criterion of probably approximately correct identification under random sampling.

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Machine Language Volume 2, Issue 4

April 1988

118 pages

ISSN:0885-6125

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