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Perfect Refinement Operators Can be Flexible

Liviu Badea

A (weakly) perfect ILP refinement operator was described in [Badea and Stanciu 99]. It's main disadvantage however is that it is static and inflexible: for ensuring non-redundancy, some refinements of a hypothesis are disallowed in advance, regardless of the search heuristic which may recommend their immediate exploration. (Similar problems are faced by Progol and other complete and non-redundant systems). On the other hand, there are systems, like FOIL, which give up completeness for maximum flexibility. But if the heuristic fails to guide the search to a solution, such a system cannot rely on a complete refinement operator to explore alternative paths. In this paper we construct a _dynamically_ perfect refinement operator which combines the advantages of completeness, non-redundancy and flexibility, and which represents one of the best tractable ILP operators one can hope for.

Keywords: Inductive Logic Programming

Citation: Liviu Badea: Perfect Refinement Operators Can be Flexible. In W.Horn (ed.): ECAI2000, Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2000, pp.266-270.


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