Lower Bounds on Learning Decision Lists and Trees

Classification and Regression Trees.

John Van Ryzin, Leo Breiman, Jerome H. Friedman et al. · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1986 · 21K citations

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Induction of Decision Trees

J. R. Quinlan · Machine Learning · 1986 · 14.8K citations · Full text

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A theory of the learnable

Leslie G. Valiant · 1984 · 4.2K citations

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Learnability and the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension

Anselm Blumer, Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, David Haussler et al. · Journal of the ACM · 1989 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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Constructing optimal binary decision trees is NP-complete

Laurent Hyafil, Ronald L. Rivest · Information Processing Letters · 1976 · 956 citations

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