PAC learning with generalized samples and an application to stochastic geometry

  • Authors:
  • S. R. Kulkarni;J. N. Tsitsiklis;S. K. Mitter;O. Zeitouni

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ;Lab. for Info. & Decision Sys., M.I.T., Cambridge, MA;Lab. for Info. & Decision Sys., M.I.T., Cambridge, MA;Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel

  • Venue:
  • COLT '92 Proceedings of the fifth annual workshop on Computational learning theory
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce an extension of the standard PAC learning model which allows the use of generalized samples. We view a generalized sample as a pair consisting of a functional on the concept class together with the value obtained by the functional operating on the unknown concept. It appears that this model can be applied to a number of problems in signal processing and geometric reconstruction to provide sample size bounds under a PAC criterion. We consider a specific application of the model to a problem of curve reconstruction, and discuss some connections with a result from stochastic geometry.