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In any learnability setting, hypotheses are conjectured from some hypothesis space. Studied herein are the effects on learnability of the presence or absence of certain control structures in the hypothesis space. First presented are control structure characterizations of some rather specific but illustrative learnability results. Then presented are the main theorems. Each of these characterizes the invariance of a learning class over hypothesis space V (and a little more about V) as: V has suitable instances of all denotational control structures.
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Case, J., Jain, S., Suraj, M. (1997). Control structures in hypothesis spaces: The influence on learning. In: Ben-David, S. (eds) Computational Learning Theory. EuroCOLT 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1208. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62685-9_24
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