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Learning Logical Definitions from Relations
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“ILP systems such as ALEPH (Srinivasan 2001) and FOIL (Quinlan 1990) have no predicate invention and limited recursion learning and therefore cannot learn recursive grammars from example sequences.”
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“Indeed, many popular ILP systems, such as FOIL (Quinlan 1990), Progol (Muggleton 1995), TILDE (Blockeel and De Raedt 1998), and Aleph (Srinivasan 2001) struggle to learn recursive programs.”
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“Although early work in ILP explored this form of learning (Sammut, 1981; Quinlan, 1990), it has been under-explored until recently (Lin et al., 2014; Cropper, 2019, 2020; Hocquette & Muggleton, 2020; Dumancic et al., 2021), mostly because of new techniques for PI.”
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“Quinlan's (1990) FOIL system is one of the most well-known ILP systems and is a natural extension of ID3 (Quinlan, 1986) from the propositional setting to the first-order setting.”
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“The above paragraph refers only to generality orders on single clauses, as many systems employ the covering algorithm whereby hypotheses are constructed iteratively clause by clause (Quinlan, 1990; De Raedt & Dehaspe, 1997; Muggleton, 1995; Blockeel & De Raedt, 1998; Srinivasan, 2001).”
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“Top-down algorithms, (Quinlan, 1990; Blockeel & De Raedt, 1998; Bratko, 1999; Muggleton et al., 2008) start with a general hypothesis and then specialise it.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Quinlan, J. R.
- Affiliations
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Quinlan, J.R.
- Venue
- Machine Learning
- Published
- 1990-08
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 239-266
- ISSN
- 0885-6125 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-0565
- OpenAlex
- W1999138184
- Cited by
- 1,644
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 36 · 2017: 29 · 2016: 25 · 2015: 29 · 2014: 44 · 2013: 44 · 2012: 41
- FWCI
- 47.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Machine Learning (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Australian Research Council
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning and Algorithms
- Keywords
- foil, inductive logic programming, Horn clauses, relational data, first-order logic, rule induction
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