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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Error detecting in inductive inference
Rusins FreivaldsRolf WiehagenEfim Kinbersubject
Identification (information)Computer scienceSpiteRecursive functionsMonotonic functionInductive reasoningType (model theory)AlgorithmDual (category theory)Power (physics)description
Several well-known inductive inference strategies change the actual hypothesis only when they discover that it “provably misclassifies” an example seen so far. This notion is made mathematically precise and its general power is characterized. In spite of its strength it is shown that this approach is not of universal power. Consequently, then hypotheses are considered which “unprovably misclassify” examples and the properties of this approach are studied. Among others it turns out that this type is of the same power as monotonic identification. Then it is shown that universal power can be achieved only when an unbounded number of alternations of these dual types of hypotheses is allowed. Finally, a universal method is presented enabling an inductive inference strategy to verify the incorrectness of any of its incorrect intermediate hypotheses.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995-01-01 |