On the Learnability of Vector Spaces

  • Authors:
  • Valentina S. Harizanov;Frank Stephan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ALT '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The central topic of the paper is the learnability of the recursively enumerable subspaces of V驴/V, where V驴 is the standard recursive vector space over the rationals with countably infinite dimension, and V is a given recursively enumerable subspace of V驴. It is shown that certain types of vector spaces can be characterized in terms of learnability properties: V驴/V is behaviourally correct learnable from text iff V is finitely dimensional, V驴/V is behaviourally correct learnable from switching type of information iff V is finite-dimensional, 0-thin, or 1-thin. On the other hand, learnability from an informant does not correspond to similar algebraic properties of a given space. There are 0-thin spaces W1 and W2 such that W1 is not explanatorily learnable from informant and the infinite product (W1)驴 is not behaviourally correct learnable, while W2 and the infinite product (W2)驴 are both explanatorily learnable from informant.