A new algorithm to automate inductive learning of default theories

Autor: Elmer Salazar, Gopal Gupta, Farhad Shakerin
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. 17:1010-1026
ISSN: 1475-3081
1471-0684
DOI: 10.1017/s1471068417000333
Popis: In inductive learning of a broad concept, an algorithm should be able to distinguish concept examples from exceptions and noisy data. An approach through recursively finding patterns in exceptions turns out to correspond to the problem of learning default theories. Default logic is what humans employ in common-sense reasoning. Therefore, learned default theories are better understood by humans. In this paper, we present new algorithms to learn default theories in the form of non-monotonic logic programs. Experiments reported in this paper show that our algorithms are a significant improvement over traditional approaches based on inductive logic programming.
Comment: Paper presented at the 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2017), Melbourne, Australia, August 28 to September 1, 2017 16 pages, LaTeX, 3 PDF figures (arXiv:YYMM.NNNNN)
Databáze: OpenAIRE