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by YeGoblynQueenne 1568 days ago
Sorry, my fault: I don't mean that PAC-Learnability means that neural nets memorise their training instances. That's more my interpretation of their observed behaviour, if you like. What I meant was that PAC-Learnability doesn't assume any ability like reasoning, and really no other ability than er, PAC-Learnability.

There's a debate, of course. I like to point to Domingos' paper:

Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00152

With the full understanding that it's just one paper.