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A Method for Finding Consistent Hypotheses Using Abstraction

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Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation (SARA 2000)

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We present in this paper a method for finding target hypotheses in Inductive Logic Programming(ILP). In order to find them efficiently, we propose to use abstraction. Given an ILP problem and a hypothesis space H, we first consider an abstraction of H. An abstract space corresponds to a small subspace of H. Then we try to find hypotheses satisfying a certain condition by searching in several such abstract spaces. Since each abstract space is small, the task is not difficult. From these hypotheses, we can easily identify a hypothesis space in which all consistent hypotheses can be found. Since the obtained space is a part of the original H, we can expect that the targets are efficiently found by searching only in the part.

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Okubo, Y., Haraguchi, M., Zheng, Y.F. (2000). A Method for Finding Consistent Hypotheses Using Abstraction. In: Choueiry, B.Y., Walsh, T. (eds) Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation. SARA 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1864. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44914-0_22

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