When Is Inductive Inference Possible?

Authors: Zhou Lu

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical In this paper, we provide a tight characterization of inductive inference by establishing a novel link to online learning theory. As our main result, we prove that inductive inference is possible if and only if the hypothesis class is a countable union of online learnable classes, potentially with an uncountable size, no matter the observations are adaptively chosen or iid sampled.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Zhou Lu Princeton University zhoul@princeton.edu
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 Non-uniform Online Learner; Algorithm 2 Agnostic Non-uniform Online Learner; Algorithm 3 Standard Optimal Algorithm (SOA); Algorithm 4 Expert(i1, , i L); Algorithm 5 Follow the Perturber Leader (FPL)
Open Source Code No The paper does not include experiments requiring code.
Open Datasets No The paper does not include experiments.
Dataset Splits No The paper does not include experiments.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not include experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper does not include experiments.
Experiment Setup No The paper does not include experiments.