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- Consider a concept learning algorithm
for the set of
instances
. Let
be an arbitrary concept defined over
, and let
be an arbitrary set of
training examples of
. Let
denote the
classification assigned to the instance
by
after
training on the data
. The inductive bias of
is
any minimal set of assertions
such that for any target concept
and corresponding training examples
- Inductive bias of the Candidate-Elimination algorithm. The
target concept
is contained in the given hypothesis space
.
Patricia Riddle
Fri May 15 13:00:36 NZST 1998