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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

Unifying probabilistic and logical learning is a key challenge in AI. We introduce a Bayesian inductive logic programming approach that learns minimum message length hypotheses from noisy data. Our approach balances hypothesis complexity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Ruben Sharma , Sebastijan Dumančić , Ross D. King , Andrew Cropper

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

Inductive logic programming is a form of machine learning based on mathematical logic that generates logic programs from given examples and background knowledge. In this project, we extend the Popper ILP system to make use of multi-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Bogdan Cretu , Andrew Cropper

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

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 ability to generalise from a small number of examples is a fundamental challenge in machine learning. To tackle this challenge, we introduce an inductive logic programming (ILP) approach that combines negation and predicate invention.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 David M. Cerna , Andrew Cropper

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

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have made significant advances in natural language inference (NLI) tasks, however their sensitivity to textual perturbations and dependence on large datasets indicate an over-reliance on shallow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Mingyue Liu , Ryo Ueda , Zhen Wan , Katsumi Inoue , Chris G. Willcocks

One approach to explaining the hierarchical levels of understanding within a machine learning model is the symbolic method of inductive logic programming (ILP), which is data efficient and capable of learning first-order logic rules that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Andreas Bueff , Vaishak Belle

In-context learning (ICL, also known as few-shot prompting) has been the standard method of adapting LLMs to downstream tasks, by learning from a few input-output examples. Nonetheless, all ICL-based approaches only learn from correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Tianjun Zhang , Aman Madaan , Luyu Gao , Steven Zheng , Swaroop Mishra , Yiming Yang , Niket Tandon , Uri Alon

Learning from Demonstration~(LfD) should capture not only how a task is executed, but also its high-level task structure that explains the demonstrated behavior. As robots become more autonomous, such task representations must be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Oleh Borys , Karla Stepanova

Integer linear programs (ILPs) are commonly employed to model diverse practical problems such as scheduling and planning. Recently, machine learning techniques have been utilized to solve ILPs. A straightforward idea is to train a model via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Qian Chen , Tianjian Zhang , Linxin Yang , Qingyu Han , Akang Wang , Ruoyu Sun , Xiaodong Luo , Tsung-Hui Chang

Formally verifying the correctness of mathematical proofs is more accessible than ever, however, the learning curve remains steep for many of the state-of-the-art interactive theorem provers (ITP). Deriving the most appropriate subsequent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Liao Zhang , David M. Cerna , Cezary Kaliszyk

The goal of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is to learn a program that explains a set of examples. Until recently, most research on ILP targeted learning Prolog programs. The ILASP system instead learns Answer Set Programs (ASP). Learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mark Law

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 particularly successful role for Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is as a tool for discovering useful relational features for subsequent use in a predictive model. Conceptually, the case for using ILP to construct relational features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-12 Haimonti Dutta , Ashwin Srinivasan

Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly smaller variants, still struggle with complex reasoning tasks. While inference-time prompting can guide reasoning, existing methods often rely on sequential queries. Ensemble approaches offer a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Gregory Kang Ruey Lau , Wenyang Hu , Diwen Liu , Jizhuo Chen , See-Kiong Ng , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

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

We describe the Inspire system which participated in the first competition on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP). Inspire is based on Answer Set Programming (ASP). The distinguishing feature of Inspire is an ASP encoding for hypothesis space…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Peter Schüller , Mishal Benz