On learning arithmetic read-once formulas with exponentiation (extended abstract)

  • Authors:
  • Daoud Bshouty;Nader H. Bshouty

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4;-

  • Venue:
  • COLT '94 Proceedings of the seventh annual conference on Computational learning theory
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

A formula is a read-once formula if each variable appears at most once in it. An arithmetic read-once formula (AROF) with exponentiation is one in which the operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and exponentiation to an arbitrary integer. We present a polynomial time algorithm for interpolating AROF with exponentiation using randomized substitutions. We then nonconstructively show the existence of a nonuniform deterministic algorithm.Interpolating AROF without exponentiation is studied in [Bshouty, Hancock and Hellerstein, STOC 92]. To add the exponentiation operation to the basis we develop a new technique.