The Consistency Dimension and Distribution-dependent Learning from Queries Authors: José L. Balcázar, Jorge Castro, David Guijarro and Hans-Ulrich Simon Email: balqui@lsi.upc.es Source: Theoretical Computer Science Vol. 288, Issue 2, 17 September 2002, pp. 197 - 215. Abstract. We prove a new combinatorial characterization of polynomial learnability from equivalence queries, and state some of its consequences relating the learnability of a class with the learnability via equivalence and membership queries of its subclasses obtained by restricting the instance space. Then we propose and study two models of query learning in which there is a probability distribution on the instance space, both as an application of the tools developed from the combinatorial characterization and as models of independent interest.

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