We prove that it is NP-hard to properly PAC learn decision trees with queries, resolving a longstanding open problem in learning theory (Bshouty 1993; Guijarro–Lavín–Raghavan 1999; Mehta–Raghavan 2002 ...

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Decision trees are popular as stand-alone classifiers or as base learners in ensemble classifiers. Mostly, this is due to decision trees having the advantage of being easy to explain. To improve the ...