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Learning Sub-classes of Monotone DNF on the Uniform Distribution
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Learning Sub-classes of Monotone DNF on the Uniform Distribution
Karsten A. Verbeurgt5 
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Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada |
Abstract
In this paper, we give learning algorithms for two new sub-class of DNF formulas: poly-disjoint One-read-once Monotone DNF;
and Read-once Factorable Monotone DNF, which is a generalization of Read-once Monotone DNF formulas. Our result uses Fourier
analysis to construct the terms of the target formula based on the Fourier coeficients corresponding to these terms. To facilitate
this result, we give a novel theorem on the approximation of Read-once Factorable Monotone DNF formulas, in which we show
that if a set of terms of the target formula have polynomially small mutually disjoint satisfying sets, then the set of terms
can be approximated with small error by the greatest common factor of the set of terms. This approximation theorem may be
of independent interest.
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