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International Conference on Computational Learning Theory

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Property Testing: A Learning Theory Perspective

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Property testing [15,9] is the study of the following class of problems.

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  1. Department of EE – Systems, Tel-Aviv University Ramat Aviv, Israel

    Dana Ron

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Nader H. Bshouty Claudio Gentile

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Ron, D. (2007). Property Testing: A Learning Theory Perspective . In: Bshouty, N.H., Gentile, C. (eds) Learning Theory. COLT 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4539. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72927-3_1

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