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 Q
d 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

with probability
1-
in O (d
5 n
12/
20 log
2 nd/


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