@InProceedings{blanc_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2020.44, author = {Blanc, Guy and Lange, Jane and Tan, Li-Yang}, title = {{Top-Down Induction of Decision Trees: Rigorous Guarantees and Inherent Limitations}}, booktitle = {11th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2020)}, pages = {44:1--44:44}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-134-4}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {151}, editor = {Vidick, Thomas}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2020.44}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-117295}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2020.44}, annote = {Keywords: Decision trees, Influence of variables, Analysis of boolean functions, Learning theory, Top-down decision tree heuristics} }