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Bounds for the Minimum Disagreement Problem with Applications to Learning Theory
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Bounds for the Minimum Disagreement Problem with Applications to Learning Theory
Nader H. Bshouty3 and Lynn Burroughs4 
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Department of Computer Science, Technion, Haifa, Israel |
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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.
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