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Learnability of solutions to conjunctive queries
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Learnability of solutions to conjunctive queries

Abstract

The problem of learning the solution space of an unknown formula has been studied in multiple embodiments in computational learning theory. In this article, we study a family of such learning problems; this family contains, for each relational structure, the problem of learning the solution space of an unknown conjunctive query evaluated on the structure. A progression of results aimed to classify the learnability of each of the problems in this family, and thus far a culmination thereof was a positive learnability result generalizing all previous ones. This article completes the classification program towards which this progression of results strived, by presenting a negative learnability result that complements the mentioned positive learnability result. In addition, a further negative learnability result is exhibited, which indicates a dichotomy within the problems to which the first negative result applies. In order to obtain our negative results, we make use of universal-algebraic concepts.

Authors

Chen H; Valeriote M

Journal

Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 20, ,

Publication Date

March 1, 2019

ISSN

1532-4435

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