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On the Role of Search for Learning

Stuart A. Kurtz, Carl H. Smith
COLT 1989 pp. 303-311
doi:10.5555/93335.93369 /colt/1989/kurtz1989colt-role/

Abstract

Learning algorithms that input examples of some phenomenon and produce conjectured explanations of the phenomenon are examined. It is argued that there are two sources for the explanations that occur as outputs of the learning process: 1 use the input data to guide a search through some (possibly very complex) space of explanations, or

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Text

Kurtz and Smith. "On the Role of Search for Learning." Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory, 1989. doi:10.5555/93335.93369

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[Kurtz and Smith. "On the Role of Search for Learning." Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory, 1989.](https://mlanthology.org/colt/1989/kurtz1989colt-role/) doi:10.5555/93335.93369

BibTeX

@inproceedings{kurtz1989colt-role,
  title     = {{On the Role of Search for Learning}},
  author    = {Kurtz, Stuart A. and Smith, Carl H.},
  booktitle = {Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory},
  year      = {1989},
  pages     = {303-311},
  doi       = {10.5555/93335.93369},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/colt/1989/kurtz1989colt-role/}
}