learning nonsingular phylogenies and hidden markov models
In this paper, we study the problem of learning phylogenies and hidden Markov models. We call a Markov model nonsingular if all transition matrices have determinants bounded away from 0 (and 1). We highlight the role of the nonsingularity condition for the learning problem. Learning hidden Markov models without the nonsingularity condition is at least as hard as learning parity with noise. On the other hand, we give a polynomial-time algorithm for learning nonsingular phylogenies and hidden Markov models.
hidden markov models phylogenetic reconstruction evolutionary trees pac learning