Computational Learning Theory
E822917
academic discipline
area of theoretical computer science
subfield of computer science
subfield of machine learning
Computational Learning Theory is a branch of computer science and mathematics that studies the design and analysis of algorithms that can learn patterns or functions from data, often using formal models of learning and complexity.
Observed surface forms (2)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory | 1 |
| computational learning theory | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
academic discipline
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area of theoretical computer science ⓘ subfield of computer science ⓘ subfield of machine learning ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
characterize when efficient learning is possible
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provide guarantees on generalization error ⓘ understand tradeoffs between data, computation, and accuracy ⓘ |
| emergedIn | 1980s ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
active learning
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agnostic learning ⓘ boosting theory ⓘ computational complexity of learning ⓘ formal models of learning ⓘ generalization theory ⓘ learning algorithms ⓘ learning in the presence of noise ⓘ online learning ⓘ sample complexity ⓘ statistical learning theory ⓘ |
| hasInfluentialConference |
ALT
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COLT NERFINISHED ⓘ NeurIPS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluentialJournal |
Journal of Machine Learning Research
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Machine Learning journal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluentialResearcher |
Leslie Valiant
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Nick Littlestone NERFINISHED ⓘ Noga Alon NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Schapire NERFINISHED ⓘ Shai Ben-David NERFINISHED ⓘ Vladimir Vapnik NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoav Freund NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
No Free Lunch theorem
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Occam’s razor in learning ⓘ PAC learning NERFINISHED ⓘ Rademacher complexity NERFINISHED ⓘ VC dimension NERFINISHED ⓘ compression schemes for learning ⓘ concept class ⓘ empirical risk minimization ⓘ hypothesis class ⓘ margin bounds ⓘ mistake bounds ⓘ online regret bounds ⓘ risk minimization ⓘ sample complexity bounds ⓘ structural risk minimization ⓘ uniform convergence ⓘ |
| hasKeyModel |
PAC model
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agnostic PAC model ⓘ distribution-free learning model ⓘ mistake-bound model ⓘ online learning model ⓘ query learning model ⓘ statistical query model ⓘ |
| hasKeyProblem |
learnability of Boolean functions
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learnability of linear separators ⓘ learnability of neural networks ⓘ learning DNF formulas ⓘ learning decision trees ⓘ learning under distributional assumptions ⓘ learning with membership queries ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
artificial intelligence
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machine learning ⓘ statistics ⓘ theoretical computer science ⓘ |
| studies |
analysis of learning algorithms
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design of learning algorithms ⓘ learnability of function classes ⓘ limits of efficient learning ⓘ tradeoff between data and computation in learning ⓘ |
| usesConcept |
combinatorics
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complexity theory ⓘ information theory ⓘ optimization ⓘ probability theory ⓘ statistics ⓘ |
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subject surface form:
Probably Approximately Correct learning
this entity surface form:
computational learning theory
this entity surface form:
Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory