Title :
Learning with errors in answers to membership queries
Author :
Bisht, Laurence ; Bshouty, Nader H. ; Khoury, Lawrance
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Technion, Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We study the learning models defined by Angluin et al. (1997): learning with equivalence and limited membership queries and learning with equivalence and malicious membership queries. We show that if a class of concepts that is closed under projection is learnable in polynomial time using equivalence and (standard) membership queries then it is learnable in polynomial time in the above models. This closes the open problems by Angluin et al. (1997). Our algorithm can also handle errors in the equivalence queries.
Keywords :
computational complexity; error handling; learning (artificial intelligence); query processing; equivalence queries; learning; limited membership queries; malicious membership queries; Boolean functions; Computer errors; Computer science; Decision trees; Doped fiber amplifiers; Polynomials;
Conference_Titel :
Foundations of Computer Science, 2004. Proceedings. 45th Annual IEEE Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2228-9
DOI :
10.1109/FOCS.2004.37