A New Declarative Bias for ILP: Construction Modes

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Esra Erdem, Pierre Flener

Published: 01 Jan 2000, Last Modified: 19 Mar 2025ILP Work-in-progress reports 2000EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Inductive logic programming (ILP) systems use some declarative bias to constrain the hypothesis space. We introduce a new declarative bias, called construction modes, capturing the required dataflow of a relation, and design a language for expressing such construction modes. Their semantics is captured via the notion of admissibility. Experiments with the ILP systems SYNAPSE and DIALOGS have established the usefulness of construction modes. Since the new bias is orthogonal to the existing search biases, it can be used in conjunction with the existing biases.