Learning simple concepts under simple distributions

A class of context-free grammars, called the “Simple LR(k)” or SLR(k) grammars is defined. This class has been shown to include weak precedence and simple precedence grammars as proper subsets. How to construct parsers for the SLR(k) grammars is also ...

We prove that it is decidable whether a finitely based permutation class contains infinitely many simple permutations, and establish an unavoidable substructure result for simple permutations: every sufficiently long simple permutation contains an ...

It is pointed out that in L.G. Valiant's learning model (Commun. ACM, vol.27, p.1134-42, 1984) many concepts turn out to be too hard to learn, whereas in practice, almost nothing we care to learn appears to be not learnable. To model the intuitive ...