Title
Estimation-Based Search Space Traversal in PILP Environments.
Abstract
Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming (PILP) systems extend ILP by allowing the world to be represented using probabilistic facts and rules, and by learning probabilistic theories that can be used to make predictions. However, such systems can be inefficient both due to the large search space inherited from the ILP algorithm and to the probabilistic evaluation needed whenever a new candidate theory is generated. To address the latter issue, this work introduces probability estimators aimed at improving the efficiency of PILP systems. An estimator can avoid the computational cost of probabilistic theory evaluation by providing an estimate of the value of the combination of two subtheories. Experiments are performed on three real-world datasets of different areas (biology, medical and web-based) and show that, by reducing the number of theories to be evaluated, the estimators can significantly shorten the execution time without losing probabilistic accuracy.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
ILP
Inductive logic programming,Tree traversal,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Execution time,Probabilistic logic,Estimator
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joana Côrte-Real121.08
Inês Dutra26110.35
Ricardo Rocha384.25