1988 LearningQuicklyWhenIrrelevantAt

• (Littlestone, 1988) ⇒ Nick Littlestone. (1988). “Learning Quickly When Irrelevant Attributes Abound: A New Linear-Threshold Algorithm.” In: Machine Learning Journal, 2(4). doi:10.1023/A:1022869011914

Subject Headings: Winnow Algorithm.

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Abstract

Valiant (1984) and others have studied the problem of learning various classes of Boolean functions from examples. Here we discuss incremental learning of these functions. We consider a setting in which the learner responds to each example according to a current hypothesis. Then the learner updates the hypothesis, if necessary, based on the correct classification of the example. One natural measure of the quality of learning in this setting is the number of mistakes the learner makes. For suitable classes of functions, learning algorithms are available that make a bounded number of mistakes, with the bound independent of the number of examples seen by the learner. We present one such algorithm that learns disjunctive Boolean functions, along with variants for learning other classes of Boolean functions. The basic method can be expressed as a linear-threshold algorithm. A primary advantage of this algorithm is that the number of mistakes grows only logarithmically with the number of irrelevant attributes in the examples. At the same time, the algorithm is computationally efficient in both time and space.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
1988 LearningQuicklyWhenIrrelevantAt	Nick Littlestone			Learning Quickly When Irrelevant Attributes Abound: A New Linear-Threshold Algorithm				10.1023/A:1022869011914		1988