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TR04-038 | 27th April 2004 00:00

#### A Polynomial Time Learner for a Subclass of Regular Patterns

TR04-038
Authors: John Case, Sanjay Jain, Rüdiger Reischuk, Frank Stephan, Thomas Zeugmann
Publication: 28th April 2004 08:38
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Abstract:

Presented is an algorithm (for learning a subclass of erasing regular
pattern languages) which
can be made to run with arbitrarily high probability of
success on extended regular languages generated by patterns
$\pi$ of the form $x_0 \alpha_1 x_1 ... \alpha_m x_m$
for unknown $m$ but known $c$,
from number of examples polynomial in $m$ (and exponential in $c$), where
$x_0,\ldots,x_m$ are variables and
where $\alpha_1,...,\alpha_m$ are each strings of terminals of
length $c$. This assumes that the algorithm randomly draws samples
with natural and plausible assumptions on the distribution.
With the aim of finding a better algorithm, we also explore computer
simulations of a heuristic.

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