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Average Size of Implicational Bases

Artificial Intelligence 2018-02-13 v1 Computational Complexity Databases Combinatorics

Abstract

Implicational bases are objects of interest in formal concept analysis and its applications. Unfortunately, even the smallest base, the Duquenne-Guigues base, has an exponential size in the worst case. In this paper, we use results on the average number of minimal transversals in random hypergraphs to show that the base of proper premises is, on average, of quasi-polynomial size.

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@article{arxiv.1802.04032,
  title  = {Average Size of Implicational Bases},
  author = {Giacomo Kahn and Alexandre Bazin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.04032},
  year   = {2018}
}

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CLA, Jun 2018, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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