Volume 30, Number 1, 7-21, DOI: 10.1023/A:1007450326753

PAC Learning Axis-aligned Rectangles with Respect to Product Distributions from Multiple-Instance Examples

Philip M. Long and Lei Tan

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Abstract

We describe a polynomial-time algorithm for learning axis-aligned rectangles in Q d with respect to product distributions from multiple-instance examples in the PAC model. Here, each example consists of n elements of Qd together with a label indicating whether any of the n points is in the rectangle to be learned. We assume that there is an unknown product distribution D over Q d such that all instances are independently drawn according to D. The accuracy of a hypothesis is measured by the probability that it would incorrectly predict whether one of n more points drawn from D was in the rectangle to be learned. Our algorithm achieves accuracy isin with probability 1-delta in O (d5 n12/isin20 log2 nd/isindelta time.

PAC learning - multiple-instance examples - axis-aligned hyperrectangles

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