Imperial College London

ProfessorStephenMuggleton

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Computing

Royal Academy Chair in Machine Learning
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 8307s.muggleton Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mrs Bridget Gundry +44 (0)20 7594 1245

 
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Location

 

407Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Cai:2021,
author = {Cai, LW and Dai, WZ and Huang, YX and Li, YF and Muggleton, S and Jiang, Y},
pages = {1815--1821},
title = {Abductive Learning with Ground Knowledge Base},
year = {2021}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - CPAPER
AB - Abductive Learning is a framework that combines machine learning with first-order logical reasoning. It allows machine learning models to exploit complex symbolic domain knowledge represented by first-order logic rules. However, it is challenging to obtain or express the ground-truth domain knowledge explicitly as first-order logic rules in many applications. The only accessible knowledge base is implicitly represented by groundings, i.e., propositions or atomic formulas without variables. This paper proposes Grounded Abductive Learning (GABL) to enhance machine learning models with abductive reasoning in a ground domain knowledge base, which offers inexact supervision through a set of logic propositions. We apply GABL on two weakly supervised learning problems and found that the model's initial accuracy plays a crucial role in learning. The results on a real-world OCR task show that GABL can significantly reduce the effort of data labeling than the compared methods.
AU - Cai,LW
AU - Dai,WZ
AU - Huang,YX
AU - Li,YF
AU - Muggleton,S
AU - Jiang,Y
EP - 1821
PY - 2021///
SN - 1045-0823
SP - 1815
TI - Abductive Learning with Ground Knowledge Base
ER -