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On the Exact Learnability of Graph Parameters: The Case of Partition Functions

Authors Nadia Labai, Johann A. Makowsky

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  • exact learning
  • partition function
  • weighted homomorphism
  • connection matrices

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Abstract

We study the exact learnability of real valued graph parameters f which are known to be representable as partition functions which count the number of weighted homomorphisms into a graph H with vertex weights alpha and edge weights beta. M. Freedman, L. Lovasz and A. Schrijver have given a characterization of these graph parameters in terms of the k-connection matrices C(f,k) of f. Our model of learnability is based on D. Angluin's model of exact learning using membership and equivalence queries. Given such a graph parameter f, the learner can ask for the values of f for graphs of their choice, and they can formulate hypotheses in terms of the connection matrices C(f,k) of f. The teacher can accept the hypothesis as correct, or provide a counterexample consisting of a graph. Our main result shows that in this scenario, a very large class of partition functions,
the rigid partition functions, can be learned in time polynomial in the size of H and the size of the largest counterexample in the Blum-Shub-Smale model of computation over the reals with unit cost.

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Nadia Labai and Johann A. Makowsky. On the Exact Learnability of Graph Parameters: The Case of Partition Functions. In 41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 58, pp. 63:1-63:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.63

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Nadia Labai
Johann A. Makowsky

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