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General random sequences and learnable sequences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

C. P. Schnorr and
P. Fuchs
C. P. Schnorr
Affiliation:
Universität Frankfurt, Fachbereich Mathematik, Federal Republic of Germany
P. Fuchs
Affiliation:
Universität Frankfurt, Fachbereich Mathematik, Federal Republic of Germany
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Abstract

We formalise the notion of those infinite binary sequences z that admit a single program P which expresses the entire algorithmical structure of z. Such a program P minimizes the information which must be used in a relative computation for z. We propose two concepts with different strength for this notion, the learnable and the super-learnable sequences. We establish three different equivalent characterizations of learnable (super-learnable, resp.) sequences. In particular, we prove that a sequence z is learnable (super-learnable, resp.) if and only if there is a computable probability measure p such that p is Schnorr (Martin-Löf, resp.) p-random. There is a recursively enumerable sequence which is not learnable. The learnable sequences are invariant with respect to all total and effective transformations of infinite binary sequences.

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , September 1977, pp. 329 - 340
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1977

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