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Bounds for the Minimum Disagreement Problem with Applications to Learning Theory

Nader H. BshoutyContact Information and Lynn BurroughsContact Information

(3)  Department of Computer Science, Technion, Haifa, Israel
(4)  Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Abstract
Many studies have been done in the literature on minimum disagreement problems and their connection to Agnostic learning and learning with Malicious errors. We further study these problems and some extensions of them. The classes that are studied in the literature are monomials, monotone monomials, antimonotone monomials, decision lists, halfspaces, neural networks and balls. For some of these classes we improve on the best previously known factors for approximating the minimum disagreement. We also find new bounds for exclusive-or, k-term DNF, k-DNF and multivariate polynomials (Xor of monomials).
We then apply the above and some other results from the literature to Agnostic learning and give negative and positive results for Agnostic learning and PAC learning with malicious errors of the above classes.
This research was supported by the fund for promotion of research at the Technion. Research no. 120-025. Part of this research was done at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
This research was supported by an NSERC PGS-B Scholarship, an Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, and an Alberta Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (iCORE) Fellowship.

Contact Information Nader H. Bshouty
Email: bshouty@cs.technion.ac.il

Contact Information Lynn Burroughs
Email: lynnb@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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