5. CONCEPT LEARNING

 

5. CONCEPT LEARNING

·       Learning involves acquiring general concepts from specific training examples. Example: People continually learn general concepts or categories such as "bird," "car," "situations in which I should study more to pass the exam," etc.

·       Each such concept can be viewed as describing some subset of objects or events defined over a larger set

·       Alternatively, each concept can be thought of as a Boolean-valued function defined over this larger set. (Example: A function defined over all animals, whose value is true for birds and false for other animals).

Definition: Concept learning - Inferring a Boolean-valued function from training examples of its input and output