On the Learnability of Hidden Markov Models

  • Authors:
  • Sebastiaan Terwijn

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICGI '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A simple result is presented that links the learning of hidden Markov models to results in complexity theory about nonlearnability of finite automata under certain cryptographic assumptions. Rather than considering all probability distributions, or even just certain specific ones, the learning of a hidden Markov model takes place under a distribution induced by the model itself.