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Conjunctive Queries: Unique Characterizations and Exact Learnability

Authors Balder ten Cate , Victor Dalmau

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  • Theory of computation → Machine learning theory
  • Theory of computation → Logic
  • Information systems → Query languages
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  • Conjunctive Queries
  • Homomorphisms
  • Frontiers
  • Unique Characterizations
  • Exact Learnability
  • Schema Mappings
  • Description Logic

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Abstract

We answer the question of which conjunctive queries are uniquely characterized by polynomially many positive and negative examples, and how to construct such examples efficiently. As a consequence, we obtain a new efficient exact learning algorithm for a class of conjunctive queries. At the core of our contributions lie two new polynomial-time algorithms for constructing frontiers in the homomorphism lattice of finite structures. We also discuss implications for the unique characterizability and learnability of schema mappings and of description logic concepts.

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Balder ten Cate and Victor Dalmau. Conjunctive Queries: Unique Characterizations and Exact Learnability. In 24th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 186, pp. 9:1-9:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2021.9

Author Details

Balder ten Cate
  • Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
Victor Dalmau
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Funding

  • Dalmau, Victor: Victor Dalmau was supported by MICCIN grants TIN2016-76573-C2-1P and PID2019-109137GB-C22.

Acknowledgements

This paper largely grew out of discussions at Dagstuhl Seminar 19361 ("Logic and Learning") in Sept. 2019. We thank Carsten Lutz and Phokion Kolaitis for helpful discussions.

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