Title
Monotone term decision lists
Abstract
We introduce a new representation class of Boolean functions ¿ monotone term decision lists ¿ which combines compact representation size with tractability of essential operations. We present many properties of the class which make it an attractive alternative to traditional universal representation classes such as DNF formulas or decision trees. We study the learnability of monotone term decision lists in the exact model of equivalence and membership queries. We show that, for any constant k¿0, k-term monotone decision lists are exactly and properly learnable with nO(k) membership queries in nO(k3) time. We also show that n¿(k) membership queries are necessary for exact learning. In contrast, both k-term monotone decision lists (k¿2) and general monotone term decision lists are not learnable with equivalence queries alone. We also show that a subclass of monotone term decision lists (disj-MDL) is learnable with equivalence and membership queries, while neither type of query alone suffices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1016/S0304-3975(00)00043-8
Theor. Comput. Sci.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
monotone term decision list
Journal
259
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
Theoretical Computer Science
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Guijarro120.44
Víctor Lavín2253.54
Vijay V. Raghavan32544506.92