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Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) aims to learn interpretable first-order rules from data, but existing symbolic and neuro-symbolic approaches struggle to scale to noisy and probabilistic settings. Classical ILP relies on discrete…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Iman Sharifi , Peng Wei , Saber Fallah

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

Rule learning-based models are widely used in highly interpretable scenarios due to their transparent structures. Inductive logic programming (ILP), a form of machine learning, induces rules from facts while maintaining interpretability.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Kun Gao , Katsumi Inoue , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang , Feng Yang

Common criticisms of state-of-the-art machine learning include poor generalisation, a lack of interpretability, and a need for large amounts of training data. We survey recent work in inductive logic programming (ILP), a form of machine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Andrew Cropper , Sebastijan Dumančić , Stephen H. Muggleton

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

Inductive logic programming (ILP) is a form of logical machine learning. Most ILP algorithms learn a single hypothesis from a single training run. Ensemble methods train an ILP algorithm multiple times to learn multiple hypotheses. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Mingyue Liu , Andrew Cropper

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

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

Learning first-order logic programs (LPs) from relational facts which yields intuitive insights into the data is a challenging topic in neuro-symbolic research. We introduce a novel differentiable inductive logic programming (ILP) model,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Kun Gao , Katsumi Inoue , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang

Inductive logic programming (ILP) is a form of logic-based machine learning. The goal is to induce a hypothesis (a logic program) that generalises given training examples. As ILP turns 30, we review the last decade of research. We focus on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Andrew Cropper , Sebastijan Dumančić , Richard Evans , Stephen H. Muggleton

Large language models (LLMs) often struggle with complex mathematical tasks, prone to "hallucinating" incorrect answers due to their reliance on statistical patterns. This limitation is further amplified in average Small LangSLMs with…

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized many areas (e.g. natural language processing, software engineering, etc.) by achieving state-of-the-art performance on extensive downstream tasks. Aiming to achieve robust and general…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Zhiming Li , Yushi Cao , Xiufeng Xu , Junzhe Jiang , Xu Liu , Yon Shin Teo , Shang-wei Lin , Yang Liu

In recent years, several frameworks and systems have been proposed that extend Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) to the Answer Set Programming (ASP) paradigm. In ILP, examples must all be explained by a hypothesis together with a given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Mark Law , Alessandra Russo , Krysia Broda

The trade-off between expressiveness and interpretability remains a core challenge when building human-centric predictive models for classification and decision-making. While symbolic rules offer interpretability, they often lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Ruochen Wang , Si Si , Felix Yu , Dorothea Wiesmann , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Inderjit Dhillon

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Probabilistic Logic Programming (PLP) and Statistical Relational Learning (SRL) models that combine logic with probabilities. Structure learning of these systems is an intersection area of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Wang-Zhou Dai , Zhi-Hua Zhou

The integration of reasoning, learning, and decision-making is key to build more general artificial intelligence systems. As a step in this direction, we propose a novel neural-logic architecture, called differentiable logic machine (DLM),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Matthieu Zimmer , Xuening Feng , Claire Glanois , Zhaohui Jiang , Jianyi Zhang , Paul Weng , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Wulong Liu

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

Artificial Neural Networks are powerful function approximators capable of modelling solutions to a wide variety of problems, both supervised and unsupervised. As their size and expressivity increases, so too does the variance of the model,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Richard Evans , Edward Grefenstette

Inductive logic programming is a type of machine learning in which logic programs are learned from examples. This learning typically occurs relative to some background knowledge provided as a logic program. This dissertation introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Brad Hunter

Solving Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) problems with neural networks is a key challenge in Neural-Symbolic Ar- tificial Intelligence (AI). While most research has focused on designing novel network architectures for individual prob-…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Bowen He , Xiaoan Xu , Alper Kamil Bozkurt , Vahid Tarokh , Juncheng Dong