Most General Hypothesis

A Most General Hypothesis is a hypothesis that covers none of the negative examples of any specific hypotheses.

• AKA: Maximally General Hypothesis.
• Example(s):
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Most Specific Hypothesis.
• See: Learning as Search, Statistical Hypothesis.

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References

2017

• (Sammut & Webb, 2017) ⇒ Claude Sammut, and Geoffrey I. Webb. (2017). “Most General Hypothesis”. In: (Sammut & Webb, 2017).
  • QUOTE: A hypothesis, h, is a most general hypothesis if it covers none of the negative examples and there is no other hypothesis h' that covers no negative examples, such that h is strictly more specific than h'.

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