Valiant: a theory of the learnable

What changed

Defined resource-bounded learnability protocols and proved learnability for nontrivial propositional classes.

Scientific scope

The record is Valiant’s sole-author 1984 Communications of the ACM paper. It does not absorb Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, later PAC variants, agnostic learning or all computational learning theory.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Valiant’s sole-author 1984 Communications of the ACM paper. It does not absorb Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, later PAC variants, agnostic learning or all computational learning theory.

Contributors

• Leslie G. Valiant · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• ACM DOI record for A Theory of the Learnable
• MIT-hosted Valiant paper

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