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Benjamin Caulfield

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arXiv2019

Modularity in Query-Based Concept Learning

We define and study the problem of modular concept learning, that is, learning a concept that is a cross product of component concepts. If an element's membership in a concept depends solely on it's membership in the components, learning the concept as a whole can be reduced to learning the components. We analyze this problem with respect to different types of oracle interfaces, defining different sets of queries. If a given oracle interface cannot answer questions about the components, learning can be difficult, even when the components are easy to learn with the same type of oracle queries. While learning from superset queries is easy, learning from membership, equivalence, or subset queries is harder. However, we show that these problems become tractable when oracles are given a positive example and are allowed to ask membership queries.

cs.LG↗

arXiv2016

What's Decidable about Syntax-Guided Synthesis?

Syntax-guided synthesis (SyGuS) is a recently proposed framework for program synthesis problems. The SyGuS problem is to find an expression or program generated by a given grammar that meets a correctness specification. Correctness specifications are given as formulas in suitable logical theories, typically amongst those studied in satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). In this work, we analyze the decidability of the SyGuS problem for different classes of grammars and correctness specifications. We prove that the SyGuS problem is undecidable for the theory of equality with uninterpreted functions (EUF).We identify a fragment of EUF, which we call regular-EUF, for which the SyGuS problem is decidable. We prove that this restricted problem is EXPTIME-complete and that the sets of solution expressions are precisely the regular tree languages. For theories that admit a unique, finite domain, we give a general algorithm to solve the SyGuS problem on tree grammars. Finite-domain theories include the bit-vector theory without concatenation. We prove SyGuS undecidable for a very simple bit-vector theory with concatenation, both for context-free grammars and for tree grammars. Finally, we give some additional results for linear arithmetic and bit-vector arithmetic along with a discussion of the implication of these results.

cs.LO↗

arXiv2014

On Even Linear Indexed Languages with a Reduction to the Learning of Context-Free Languages

This paper presents a restricted form of linear indexed grammars, called even linear indexed grammars, which yield the even linear indexed languages. These languages properly contain the context-free languages and are contained in the set of linear indexed languages. We show that several patterns found in natural languages are also generated by these grammars, including crossing dependencies, copying, and multiple agreements. We discuss the learning problem for even linear indexed languages and show that it is reducible to that of the context-free languages. The closure properties for this class of languages are also presented.

cs.FL↗