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When comparing inductive logic programming (ILP) and attribute-value learning techniques, there is a trade-off between expressive power and efficiency. Inductive logic programming techniques are typically more expressive but also less…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hendrik Blockeel , Luc De Raedt , Nico Jacobs , Bart Demoen

Event recognition systems rely on properly engineered knowledge bases of event definitions to infer occurrences of events in time. The manual development of such knowledge is a tedious and error-prone task, thus event-based applications may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Nikos Katzouris , Alexander Artikis , George Paliouras

We propose ILP-CoT, a method that bridges Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for abductive logical rule induction. The task involves both discovering logical facts and inducing logical rules from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yifei Peng , Yaoli Liu , Enbo Xia , Yu Jin , Wang-Zhou Dai , Zhong Ren , Yao-Xiang Ding , Kun Zhou

A key feature of inductive logic programming (ILP) is its ability to learn first-order programs, which are intrinsically more expressive than propositional programs. In this paper, we introduce techniques to learn higher-order programs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Andrew Cropper , Rolf Morel , Stephen H. Muggleton

A major challenge in inductive logic programming (ILP) is learning large programs. We argue that a key limitation of existing systems is that they use entailment to guide the hypothesis search. This approach is limited because entailment is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Andrew Cropper , Sebastijan Dumančić

The capability of making interpretable and self-explanatory decisions is essential for developing responsible machine learning systems. In this work, we study the learning to explain problem in the scope of inductive logic programming…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Yuan Yang , Le Song

ICLP is the premier international event for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions to ICLP 2021 were sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not limited to: Foundations: Semantics, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic…

ICLP is the premier international event for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions to ICLP 2022 were sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not limited to: Foundations: Semantics, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Yuliya Lierler , Jose F. Morales , Carmine Dodaro , Veronica Dahl , Martin Gebser , Tuncay Tekle

Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) provides interpretable rule learning in relational domains, yet remains limited in its ability to induce and reason with numerical constraints. Classical ILP systems operate over discrete predicates and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Nijesh Upreti , Vaishak Belle

Synthesizing large logic programs through symbolic Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) typically requires intermediate definitions. However, cluttering the hypothesis space with intensional predicates typically degrades performance. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Stanisław J. Purgał , David M. Cerna , Cezary Kaliszyk

Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international event for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions are solicited in all areas of logic programming and related areas, including but…

Rules complement and extend ontologies on the Semantic Web. We refer to these rules as onto-relational since they combine DL-based ontology languages and Knowledge Representation formalisms supporting the relational data model within the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Francesca A. Lisi

Machine learning methods are growing in relevance for biometrics and personal information processing in domains such as forensics, e-health, recruitment, and e-learning. In these domains, white-box (human-readable) explanations of systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Alfonso Ortega , Julian Fierrez , Aythami Morales , Zilong Wang , Tony Ribeiro

Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is a form of machine learning (ML) which in contrast to many other state of the art ML methods typically produces highly interpretable and reusable models. However, many ILP systems lack the ability to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-26 John Wahlig

This work presents a novel systematic methodology to analyse the capabilities and limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) with feedback from a formal inference engine, on logic theory induction. The analysis is complexity-graded w.r.t.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 João Pedro Gandarela , Danilo S. Carvalho , André Freitas

Learning complex programs through inductive logic programming (ILP) remains a formidable challenge. Existing higher-order enabled ILP systems show improved accuracy and learning performance, though remain hampered by the limitations of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Stanisław J. Purgał , David M. Cerna , Cezary Kaliszyk

Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) approaches like Meta \-/ Interpretive Learning (MIL) can learn, from few examples, recursive logic programs with invented predicates that generalise well to unseen instances. This ability relies on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Stassa Patsantzis

Discovering novel high-level concepts is one of the most important steps needed for human-level AI. In inductive logic programming (ILP), discovering novel high-level concepts is known as predicate invention (PI). Although seen as crucial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Andrew Cropper , Rolf Morel

We propose a novel paradigm for solving Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) problems via deep recurrent neural networks. This proposed ILP solver is designed based on differentiable implementation of the deduction via forward chaining. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Ali Payani , Faramarz Fekri

Recent inductive logic programming (ILP) approaches learn optimal hypotheses. An optimal hypothesis minimises a given cost function on the training data. There are many cost functions, such as minimising training error, textual complexity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Céline Hocquette , Andrew Cropper