On using extended statistical queries to avoid membership queries

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2111, Issue , 2001, Pages 529-545

  Bshouty, Nader H ^a   Feldman, Vitaly ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DNF EXPRESSIONS; FOURIER COEFFICIENTS; LEARNABILITY; MEMBERSHIP QUERY; PRODUCT ATTRIBUTES; PRODUCT DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL QUERIES; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84943225164     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44581-1_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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