Candidate-Elimination Summary
- It will converge towards the hypothesis that correctly
describes the target concept given that
- there are no errors in the training examples,
- there is some hypothesis H that correctly describes the target concept.
- If there are errors, $S$ and $G$ will eventually converge
to an empty version space.
- For best performance, the next example should satisfy
exactly half the hypotheses in the current version space
(twenty questions).
- Partially learned concepts can still be used (i.e., before converging to a single hypothesis)
- If all the hypotheses classify an instance as positive
or negative then we can safely classify it as such.
- If there is a discrepancy then we could let the
majority win. The vote could be viewed as a confidence
measure.
José M. Vidal
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