Adaptive Exact Learning of Decision Trees from Membership Queries

01/23/2019

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by   Nader H. Bshouty, et al.

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In this paper we study the adaptive learnability of decision trees of depth at most d from membership queries. This has many applications in automated scientific discovery such as drugs development and software update problem. Feldman solves the problem in a randomized polynomial time algorithm that asks Õ(2^2d) n queries and Kushilevitz-Mansour in a deterministic polynomial time algorithm that asks 2^18d+o(d) n queries. We improve the query complexity of both algorithms. We give a randomized polynomial time algorithm that asks Õ(2^2d) + 2^d n queries and a deterministic polynomial time algorithm that asks 2^5.83d+2^2d+o(d) n queries.