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MODEL THEORY AND MACHINE LEARNING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2019

HUNTER CHASE  and
JAMES FREITAG
HUNTER CHASE
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS UIC, CHICAGO IL, USA E-mail: [email protected]: [email protected]
JAMES FREITAG
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS UIC, CHICAGO IL, USA E-mail: [email protected]: [email protected]
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Abstract

About 25 years ago, it came to light that a single combinatorial property determines both an important dividing line in model theory (NIP) and machine learning (PAC-learnability). The following years saw a fruitful exchange of ideas between PAC-learning and the model theory of NIP structures. In this article, we point out a new and similar connection between model theory and machine learning, this time developing a correspondence between stability and learnability in various settings of online learning. In particular, this gives many new examples of mathematically interesting classes which are learnable in the online setting.

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03C9897P20model theorymachine learning
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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , September 2019 , pp. 319 - 332
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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2019 

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