FINAL VERSION IJCAI 2009 TUTORIALlucdr/ijcai09.pdfWayne Aubrey,1 Emma Byrne,1 Maria Liakata,1 Magdalena Markham,1 Pinar Pir,2 Larisa N. Soldatova,1 Andrew Sparkes,1 Kenneth E. Whelan,

FINAL VERSION IJCAI 2009 TUTORIAL

Version 4, July 13, 2009

Logical and Relational Learning

Luc De Raedt

An IJCAI 2009 Tutorial

ⓒ Luc De Raedt

What is Logical and Relational Learning ?

Inductive Logic

Programming

(Statistical) Relational Learning

Multi-Relational Data

Mining

Mining and Learning in Graphs

UNION of

They all study the same problem

The Problem

Learning from structured data, involving

• objects, and

• relationships amongst them

and possibly

• using background knowledge

Purpose of this talk

Relational learning is sometimes viewed as a new problem, but it has a long history

Emphasize the role of symbolic representations (graphs & logic) and knowledge

A modern view

• logic as a toolbox for machine learning

Overview of some of the available tools and techniques

Illustration of their use in some of our recent work

HistoryPhilosophy of Science: Carnap, Hume, Miller, Popper, Peirce, ...

AI & ML 60s-70s: Banerji, Plotkin, Vere, Michalski, ...

AI & ML 80s: Shapiro, Sammut, Muggleton, ...

ILP 90s: Muggleton, Quinlan, De Raedt, ...

SRL 00s: Getoor, Koller, Domingos, Sato, ...

OverviewPart I : Introduction

• MOTIVATION

• REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DATA

Part II : Logical and Relational Learning

• The LOGIC of LEARNING

• METHODOLOGY and SYSTEMS

Part III : Statistical Relational Learning

• LOGIC, RELATIONS and PROBABILITY

• RELATIONAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

Further Reading

Luc De Raedt


Springer, 2008, 401 pages.

(should be on display at the Springer booth)

The MOTIVATION

Case 1: Structure Activity Relationship Prediction

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Structural alert:

[Srinivasan et al. AIJ 96]

Data = Set of Small Graphs

General PurposeLogic Learning System

Uses and ProducesKnowledge

Using and Producing Knowledge

LRL can use and produce knowledge

Result of learning task is understandable and interpretable

Logical and relational learning algorithms can use background knowledge, e.g. ring structures, pathways, ...

and reason, induction, deduction, abduction, ...

Focus of Inductive Logic Programming

Case 2: The Robot Scientist

Nature 2004

REPORTSThe Automation of ScienceRoss D. King,1* Jem Rowland,1 Stephen G. Oliver,2 Michael Young,3 Wayne Aubrey,1 Emma Byrne,1 Maria Liakata,1 Magdalena Markham,1 Pinar Pir,2 Larisa N. Soldatova,1 Andrew Sparkes,1 Kenneth E. Whelan,1 Amanda Clare1

Science 2009

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participates inis located in

is related to

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Case 3: Biological NetworksBiomine Database @ Helsinki

Data = Large (Probabilistic) Network

Network around Alzheimer Disease

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Notch receptor processingBiologicalProcessGO:GO:0007220

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Questions to askHow to support the life scientist in using and discovering new knowledge in the network ?

• Is gene X involved in disease Y ?

• Should there be a link between gene X and disease Y ? If so, what type of link ?

• What is the probability that gene X is connected to disease Y ?

• Which genes are similar to X w.r.t. disease Y?

• Which part of the network provides the most information (network extraction) ?

• ...

Case 4: Evolving Networks

Travian: A massively multiplayer real-time strategy game

• Commercial game run by TravianGames GmbH

• ~3.000.000 players spread over different “worlds”

• ~25.000 players in one world[Thon et al. ECML 08]

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Can we build a modelof this world ?

Can we use it for playingbetter ?

[Thon, Landwehr, De Raedt, ECML08]

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Emerging Data Sets

In many application areas :

• vision, surveillance, activity recognition, robotics, ...

• data in relational format are becoming available

• use of knowledge and reasoning is essential

• in Travian -- ako STRIPS representation

GerHome Example

Action and Activity Learning

(courtesy of Francois Bremond, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis)

http://www-sop.inria.fr/orion/personnel/Francois.Bremond/topicsText/gerhomeProject.html

Towards “Relational” Robotics ?

Robotics

• several lower level problems have been (more or less) solved

• time to bridge the gap between lower and higher level representations ?

[Kersting et al. Adv. Robotics 07]

The LRL Problem

Learning from structured data, involving

• objects, and relationships amongst them

• possibly using background knowledge and reasoning

Very often :

• examples are small graphs or elements of a large network (possibly evolving over time)

• many different types of applications and challenges

BASICS

BASICSlogic

The Representation Language

SQL

Prolog First Order Logic

Relational Calculi Entity-Relationship Model

Description Logic

OWL

Choice probably not that important though implementation & manipulation

Graphs

Logic: Syntaxclass(Book,Topic) :-

author(Book,Author), favorite-topic(Author,Topic).

the class of Book is Topic IF

the Book is written by Author AND

Topic is the favorite of the Author

favorite-topic(rowlings,fantasy)

the favorite topic of rowlings is fantasy

author(rowlings,harrypotter)

Variableconstant

predicate/relation

Fact(s)

Clause(s)

Logic: three viewsentailment/logical consequence

class(Book,Topic) :-

author(Book,Author), favorite-topic(Author,Topic)

favorite-topic(rowlings,fantasy).

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|=

class(harrypotter,fantasy) .

Logic: three viewsmodels

{class(hp,fan), author(row,hp), fav(row,fan)}

is a (Herbrand) model for satifies





Logic: three viewsproofs class(hp,fan)

author(row,hp) fav(row,fan)

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BASICSlearning

Typical Machine Learning Problem

• Given

•a set of examples E

•various representational languages (and possibly background knowledge)

•a loss function

• Find

•A hypothesis h that minimizes the loss function w.r.t. the examples E

Different learning tasks

• classification

• regression

• clustering

• pattern mining

• ...

An LRL problem

class = positive IF there is a triangle inside a circle

A Bongard Problem

REPRESENTING the DATA

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An example is positive if there exists a tuple in the example that satisfies particular properties

Boundary case between relational and propositional learning.

A lot of interest in past 10 years

Applications: vision, chemo-informatics, ...

Encoding Graphs

Encoding Graphs

atom(1,cl).atom(2,c).atom(3,c).atom(4,c).atom(5,c).atom(6,c).atom(7,c).atom(8,o)....

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Encoding KnowledgeUse background knowledge in form of rules

• encode hierarchies

halogen(A):- atom(X,f)

halogen(A):- atom(X,cl)

halogen(A):- atom(X,br)

halogen(A):- atom(X,i)

halogen(A):- atom(X,as)

•encode functional group

benzene-ring :- ...

intentional versus extentional encodings

Relational Representation

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Advantages Relational

• background knowledge in the form of rules, ontologies, features, ...

• relations of arity > 2 (but hypergraphs)

• graphs capture structure but annotations with many features/labels is non-trivial

Advantages Graphs

• efficiency and scalability

• full relational is more complex

• matrix operations

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UPGRADING : Can we develop systems that work with richer representations (starting from systems for simpler representations)?

PROPOSITIONALISATION: Can we change the representation from richer representations to simpler ones ? (So we can use systems working with simpler representations)

Sometimes uses AGGREGATION

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The Upgrading Methodology

Start from existing system for simpler representation

Extend it for use with richer representation (while trying to keep the original system as a special case)

Illustrations follow.

Learning Tasks

• rule-learning & decision trees [Quinlan 90], [Blockeel 96]

• frequent and local pattern mining [Dehaspe 98]

• distance-based learning (clustering & instance-based learning) [Horvath, 01], [Ramon 00]

• probabilistic modeling (cf. statistical relational learning)

• reinforcement learning [Dzeroski et al. 01]

• kernel and support vector methods

Logical and relational representations can (and have been) used for all learning tasks and techniques

Propositionalization

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Downgrading the data ?

Propositionalization

Table-based Propositionalization

Define new relation

p(N,J,C,P,R,Co,L) :-

participant(N,J,C,P,R),

subscribes(N,Co),

length(Co,L).

Multi-relational → multi-instance


Examples are subscriptions

instead of participants

s(N,J,C,P,R,Co,L) :-


subscribes(N,Co),

length(Co,L).

Under certain conditions Multi-relational --> attribute value

directly feed into standard ML systems


1 tuple for participant/5

gives n tuples for p/7

p(N,J,C,P,R,Co,L) :-


subscribes(N,Co),

length(Co,L).

Multi-relational → multi-instanceunder certain conditions → atttribute-value

Query-basedPropositionalization

Compute a set of relevant features or queries.

Typically, (variant of) local pattern mining; also heuristic approaches

E.g. find all frequent or correlated subgraphs.

Use each feature as boolean attribute.


Given

• a set of molecules

Find

• all subgraphs/queries which occur in at least x% of the molecules, OR

• top-k subgraphs/queries w.r.t. a statistical significance score


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Excellent results in graph classification (using SVMs).

Dynamic Propositionalization

So far static propositionalization : feature generation and learning step separated

Dynamic propositionalization interleaves feature generation with rule learning

• E.g. Sayu [Davis et al.], nFOIL, kFOIL [Landwehr], ..

• integration with naive Bayes/kernel methods

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For instance :

• number of courses followed

multi-instance/tuple → attribute-value

Aggregation

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Propositionalization and Aggregation

Often useful to reduce more expressive representation to simpler one but almost always results in information loss or combinatorial explosion

Shifts the problem

• how to find the right features / attributes ?

One example

• features = paths in a graph (for instance)

• which ones to select ?

still requires “relational” methods

The LOGIC of LEARNING Coverage and Generality

Typical Machine Learning ProblemGiven

•a set of examples E

•a background theory B

•a logic language Le to represent examples

•a logic language Lh to represent hypotheses

•a covers relation on Le x Lh

•a loss function

Find

•A hypothesis h in Lh that minimizes the loss function w.r.t. the examples E taking B into account

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Coverage

Deduction



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....halogen(A):- atom(X,f)

halogen(A):- atom(X,cl)

halogen(A):- atom(X,br)

halogen(A):- atom(X,i)

halogen(A):- atom(X,as)

H |= positive

Logic: three viewsentailment/logical consequence

H |= class(harrypotter,fantasy)

class(harrypotter,fantasy) follows from H

models {class(hp,fan), author(row,hp), fav(row,fan)}

is a model for H

is a possible world given H

proofs class(hp,fan)

author(row,hp) fav(row,fan)

Three possible SETTINGS

Learning from entailment (FOIL)

• covers(H,e) iff H |= e

Learning from interpretations

• covers(H,e) iff e is a model for H

Learning from proofs or traces.

• covers(H,e) iff e is proof given H

The setting can matter a lotA Knowledge Representation Issue

A case : FOILLearning from entailment -- the setting

Given

mutagenic(225), ...

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Learning from entailment

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covers(H,e) iff H |= e or B ∪ H ⊧ e


Examples as “relational state descriptions”

• {triangle(t1), circle(c1), inside(c1,t1)}

• {triangle(t3), triangle(t4), inside(t3,t4), circle(c5)}

Hypotheses consist of properties / constraints

• triangle(T) :- circle(C), inside(T,C)

• IF there is a circle C inside an object T THEN T is a triangle

• false :- circle(C1), circle(C2), inside(C1,C2)

• NO circle is inside another circle ...

covers(H,e) iff e is a model for H


Examples

• Positive: { human(luc), human(lieve), male(luc), female(lieve)}

Hypothesis (positives only)

(maximally specific that covers example)

• human(X) :- female(X)

• human(X) :- male(X)

• false :- male(X), female(X)

• male(X); female(X) :- human(X)

OFTEN used for finding INTEGRITY CONSTRAINTS / FREQ. PATTERN MINING

Learning from ProofsExamples

Hypothesis

Used in Treebank Grammar Learning & Program Synthesis

covers(H,e) iff e is proof given H

Use of different Settings

Learning from interpretations– Typically used for description

– E.g., inducing integrity constraints

Learning from entailment– The most popular setting

– Typically used for prediction– E.g., predicting activity of compounds

Learning from traces/proofs– Typically used for hard problems, when

other settings seem to fail or fail to scale up– E.g., program synthesis from examples,

grammar induction, multiple predicate learning

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target program (cf. De Raedt, AIJ 97)

Generality Relation

An essential component of symbolic learning / mining systems.

Clauses

positive :- outlook(sunny), temperature(high)

is more general than

positive :- outlook(sunny), temperature(high), wind(strong)

all examples covered by 2nd clause also covered by 1st

used to structure the search space in mining and learning systems

Using Generality

To define the search space that is traversed.

Cf. frequent item-set mining, concept-learning.

Different types of search strategy:

all solutions (freq. item-sets), top-k solutions (branch and bound algo.), heuristic (concept-learning)

Generality

lexicographic order/canonical form

just add an item

Generality RelationAn essential component of Symbolic Learning systems

G is more general than S if all examples covered by S are also covered by G

Using graphs

• subgraph isomorphism or homomorphism

In logic

• theta or OI subsumption, in general G ⊧ S

Generality Relation

positive :- atom(X,c) ⊧ positive :- atom(X,c), atom(Y,o)

but also

positive :- halogen(X)

halogen(X) :- atom(X,c) ⊧ positive :- atom(X,c)

G ⊧ S

S follows deductively from G

G follows inductively from S

therefore induction is the inverse of deduction

this is an operational point of view because there are many deductive operators ⊦ that implement ⊧

take any deductive operator and invert it and one obtains an inductive operator

Various frameworks for generality

Depending on the form of G and S

single clause

clausal theory

Relative to a background theory B U G ⊧ S

Depending on the choice of ⊦ to invert

subsumption (most popular)

Subsumption in 3 Steps

Subsumption ~ generalization of graph morphisms

1. propositional

2. atoms

3. clauses (rules)

Propositional Logic

{f,¬b,¬n} = f IF b and n = f :- b, nG ⊧ S if and only if G ⊆ S

just like item-sets

Logical Atoms

Does g=participant(adams, X, kul) match

s=participant(adams,researcher, kul) ?

Yes, because there is a substitution θ={X/researcher} such that gθ=s

more complicated, account for variable unification

Subsumption in Clauses

Combine propositional and atomic subsumption.

G subsumes S if and only if there is a substitution θ such that Gθ⊆S.

Graph - homomorphism as special case

Subsumption Relation

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Testing subsumption (and subgraph-ismorphism) is NP-complete

Infinite chains (up and downwards) exist

Syntactic variants exist when working with homomorphism (but not for isomorphism).

Computation of lub (lgg) and glb

Sound but incomplete, i.e. when G θ-subsumes S implies that G |= S, but not vice versa, e.g.

• p(f(X)) :- p(X) and p(f(f(Y))) :- p(Y).

Subsumption

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positive :- atom(A,c), atom(B,c),

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θ={G/8,A/5,B/4,C/3,D/2,E/7,F/6}

Theta-subsumption lattice

subgraph homomorphismnot a lattice when working with isomorphism

Computational Efficiency

Deciding θ-subsumption is NP-hard

Phase-Transitions

over and under constrained regions

[Giordana & Saitta 2000]

Computational Efficiency

Deciding θ-subsumption is NP-hard

Generality relations and refinement operators are well-understood; they apply to simpler structures such as graphs (canonical form -- lexicographic orders)

G ⊧ S

Refinement

Graphs :

Adding edges

Relational learning

Adding literals

bond(A,B,s),

bond(B,C,d), ...

Applying a substitution

{A = B} or {C = cl}

Refinement operators

Apply a substitution

or add a literal

Various properties of refinement operators studiede.g. Nienhuys-Cheng & De Wolf

Alternative frameworksInverse implication (addressing incompleteness θ-subsumption)

Inverting the resolution principle (Muggleton and Buntine, 88)

grandparent(X,Y) :- father(X,Z), parent(Z,Y)father(X,Y) :- male(X), parent(X,Y)

grandparent(X,Y) :- male(X), parent(X,Z), parent(Z,Y)

parent(jef,an)

male(jef)

grandparent(jef,Y) :- parent(jef,Z), parent(Z,Y)

grandparent(jef,Y) :- parent(an,Y)parent(an,paul)

grandparent(jef,paul)

resolution

Operators

G and S are sets of clauses and

Absorption :

Identification

Operators

Intra-construction

Inter-construction

Predicate Invention

Applying Intra-construction

Yields (where newp is a new predicate)

Inverse EntailmentB U h |= e iff B U ¬e |= ¬h

find all atoms entailed by BU¬ e

call this ¬h and negate again to give maximally specific h called bottom clause

B = { mammal(X) :- dog(X); mammal(X) :- cat(X); cat(saar) }e = nice(saar)

let bias assume arguments in examples must be mentioned in entailed facts !

B U ¬ e |= mammal(saar), cat(saar), ¬ nice(saar)gives h = nice(saar) :- mammal(saar), cat(saar)

Used in Muggleton’s Progol, Srinivasan’s Aleph

Bounded Search in Progol

nice(saar) :- mammal(saar), cat(saar)

dog does not appear in search !

nice(X)

nice(saar) nice(X) :- mammal(X)

nice(X) :- cat(X) …..

Generality relations and refinement operators are well-understood; they apply to simpler structures such as graphs (canonical form -- lexicographic orders)

G ⊧ S

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UPGRADING

Two messages

LRL applies essentially to any machine learning and data mining task, not just concept-learning

• distance based learning, clustering, descriptive learning, reinforcement learning, bayesian approaches

there is a recipe that is being used to derive new LRL algorithms on the basis of propositional ones

• not the only way to LRL

Learning Tasks

• rule-learning & decision trees [Quinlan 90], [Blockeel 96]

• frequent and local pattern mining [Dehaspe 98]

• distance-based learning (clustering & instance-based learning) [Horvath, 01], [Ramon 00]


• reinforcement learning [Dzeroski et al. 01]



The RECIPE

Start from well-known propositional learning system

Modify representation and operators

• e.g. generalization/specialization operator, similarity measure, …

• often use theta-subsumption as framework for generality

Build new system, retain as much as possible from propositional one

LRL Systems and techniques

FOIL ~ CN2 – Rule Learning (Quinlan MLJ 90)

Tilde ~ C4.5 – Decision Tree Learning (Blockeel & DR AIJ 98)

Warmr ~ Apriori – Association rule learning (Dehaspe 98)

Progol ~~ AQ – Rule learning (Muggleton NGC 95)

Graph miners ...

Distance based learning

Reinforcement learning

A case : FOILLearning from entailment -- the setting

Given

mutagenic(225), ...

Find

background

examples

rules

B ∪ H ⊧ e

B ∪ H ⊧ e

Searching for a rule

:- true

Coverage = 0.65

Coverage = 0.7

Coverage = 0.6

:- atom(X,A,c)

:- atom(X,A,n)

:- atom(X,A,f)

Coverage = 0.6

Coverage = 0.75

:- atom(X,A,n),bond(A,B)

:- atom(X,A,n),charge(A,0.82)

Greedy separate-and-conquer for rule setGreedy general-to-specific search for single rule

Searching for a rule

:- true

Coverage = 0.65

Coverage = 0.7

Coverage = 0.6

:- atom(X,A,c)

:- atom(X,A,n)

:- atom(X,A,f)

Coverage = 0.6

Coverage = 0.75

:- atom(X,A,n),bond(A,B)

:- atom(X,A,n),charge(A,0.82)

mutagenic(X) :- atom(X,A,n),charge(A,0.82)

Greedy separate-and-conquer for rule setGreedy general-to-specific search for single rule

FOIL


:- true

Coverage = 0.7

Coverage = 0.6

Coverage = 0.6

:- atom(X,A,c)

:- atom(X,A,n)

:- atom(X,A,f)

Coverage = 0.8

Coverage = 0.6

:- atom(X,A,c),bond(A,B)

:- atom(X,A,c),charge(A,0.82)

FOIL


:- true

Coverage = 0.7

Coverage = 0.6

Coverage = 0.6

:- atom(X,A,c)

:- atom(X,A,n)

:- atom(X,A,f)

Coverage = 0.8

Coverage = 0.6

:- atom(X,A,c),bond(A,B)

:- atom(X,A,c),charge(A,0.82)

mutagenic(X) :- atom(X,A,c),bond(A,B)


mutagenic(X) :- atom(X,A,c),bond(A,B)

mutagenic(X) :- atom(X,A,c),charge(A,0.45)

TildeLogical Decision Trees (Blockeel & De Raedt AIJ 98)

A logical decision tree

WARMR

What to count ? Keys.

Coverage

company(jvt,commercial).company(scuf,university).company(ucro,university).

course(cso,2,introductory).course(erm,3,introductory).course(so2,4,introductory).

course(srw,3,advanced).

H: “there is a subscription for a course of length less than 3”

participant(blake,president,jvt,yes,5).subscription(blake,cso).subscription(blake,erm).

?- subscription(K,C), course(K,C,L,_), (L < 3).

participant(turner,researcher,scuf,no,23).subscription(turner,erm).subscription(turner,so2).subscription(turner,srw).

K=blake C = cso L = 2

Yes

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MILLER ADAMS

Descriptive Data Mining

Selected,Preprocessed,

and Transformed Data

multi-relational database

association rules over multiple relations

“IF participant follows an advanced course THEN she skips the welcome party”

support: 20 %confidence: 75 %

“IF ?- participant(P,C,PA,X), course(P,Y,advanced)

THEN ?-PA = no.

support: 20 %confidence: 75 %

Warmr

First order association rule :

• IF Query1 THEN Query2 Shorthand for

• IF Query1 THEN Query1 and Query2 to obtain variable bindings

IF ?- participant(P,C,PA,X), course(P,Y,advanced) THEN PA=no

IF ?- participant(P,C,PA,X), course(P,Y,advanced) succeeds for P

THEN ?- participant(P,C,PA,X), course(P,Y,advanced), PA=no succeeds for P

Counting : number of ‘keys’ for which queries succeed

Warmr ~ Apriori

Works as Apriori :

• keeping track of frequent and infrequent queries

• order queries by theta-subsumption

• using special mechanism (bias) to declare type of queries searched for

Generalizes many of the specific variants of Apriori : item-sets, episodes, hierarchies, intervals, ...

Upgrading

Key ideas / contributions FOIL + Tilde + Warmr

• determine the representation of examples and hypotheses

• select the right type of coverage and generality (subsumption)

• keep existing algorithm (CN2 or C4.5) but replace operators (often theta-subsumption)

• keep search strategy

• fast implementation

Distance Based Learning

De Raedt, Ramon 2009

Distances

| h | = the size of a hypothesis h

| g | ≤ | s | if g is more general than s

mgg(t,u) = set of minimally general generalizations

| mgg(t,u) | = max size of element in mgg(t,u)

under mild conditions the following is a metric

Distances

Quite important in machine learning and data mining

• k-nearest neighbor algorithm

• agglomarative clustering

• ...

relation to kernel methods exists as well.

Learning TheoriesInstead of learning theories from scratch, revise

them

Example

T :grandparent(X,Y) :- parent(X,Z), parent(Z,Y)parent(jef,paul).

e: grandparent(jef,an) T’ :

assert(T, parent(paul,an)) assert(T, grandparent(jef,an))

ProblemsInterdependencies among clauses and examples; also

when learning recursive clauses or multiple predicates, key problem for program synthesis

Search at the level of SETS of clauses instead of at the level of single clauses

anc(X,Y) :- parent(X,Y).anc(X,Y) :- parent(X,Z), anc(Z,Y).

uncle(X,Y) :- brother(X,Z),parent(Z,Y).brother(X,Y) :- parent(W,Y),parent(W,X), male(X).

member(X,[X|Y])member(X,[U|Z]) :- member(X,Z)

The RECIPE

Relevant for ALL levels of the hierarchy

Still being applied across data mining,

• mining from graphs, trees, and sequences

Works in both directions

• upgrading and downgrading !!!

Mining from graphs or trees as downgraded

From Upgrading to Downgrading

Work at the right level of representation

• trade-off between expressivity & efficiency

The old challenge: upgrade learning techniques for simpler representations to richer ones.

The new challenge: downgrade more expressive ones to simpler ones for efficiency and scalability; e.g. graph miners.

Note: systems using rich representations form a baseline, and can be used to test out ideas.

Relevant also for ALL machine learning and data mining tasks

Learning Tasks


• rule-learning & decision trees

• frequent and local pattern mining

• distance-based learning (clustering & instance-based learning)


• reinforcement learning


LOGIC, RELATIONS and PROBABILITY

Joint work with Kristian Kersting et al.

Books

Also, survey paper De Raedt, Kersting, SIGKDD Explorations 03

Statistical Relational Learning

Logic and relations alone are often insufficient

• but can be combined with probabilistic reasoning and models

• use logic as a toolbox

Also known as Probabilistic Logic Learning, or Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming

Some SRL formalisms

LPAD: Bruynooghe

Vennekens,VerbaetenMarkov Logic: Domingos,

RichardsonCLP(BN): Cussens,Page,

Qazi,Santos Costa

Present

PRMs: Friedman,Getoor,Koller,Pfeffer,Segal,Taskar

´03

SLPs: Cussens,Muggleton

´90 ´95 96

First KBMC approaches:

Breese,

Bacchus,Charniak,

Glesner,Goldman,

Koller,Poole, Wellmann

´00

BLPs: Kersting, De Raedt

RMMs: Anderson,Domingos,Weld

LOHMMs: De Raedt, Kersting,Raiko

Future

Prob. CLP: Eisele, Riezler

´02

PRISM: Kameya, Sato

´94

PLP: Haddawy, Ngo

´97´93

Prob. Horn Abduction: Poole

´99

1BC(2): Flach,Lachiche

Logical Bayesian Networks: Blockeel,Bruynooghe,

Fierens,Ramon,

PLL: What Changes ?

Clauses annotated with probability labels

• E.g. in Sato’s Prism, Eisele and Muggleton’s SLPs, Kersting and De Raedt’s BLPs, …

Prob. covers relation covers(e,H U B) = P(e | H,B)

• Probability distribution P over the different values e can take; so far only (true,false)

Knowledge representation issue

•Define probability distribution on examples / individuals

•What are these examples / individuals ? [cf. SETTINGS]

Probabilistic SRL Problem

Given

• a set of examples E

• a background theory B

• a language Le to represent examples

• a language Lh to represent hypotheses

• a probabilistic covers P relation on Le x Lh

Find

• hypothesis h* maximizing some score based on the probabilistic covers relation; often some kind of maximum likelihood

PLL: Three Issues

Defining Lh and P - KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION

•Clauses + Probability Labels

Learning Methods - MACHINE LEARNING

•Parameter Estimation

• Learning probability labels for fixed clauses

•Structure learning

• Learning both components

PLL: Three SettingsProbabilistic learning from interpretations

•Bayesian logic programs, Koller’s PRMs, Domingos’ MLNs, Vennekens’ LPADs/CP-logic

Probabilistic learning from entailment

•Cussens and Muggleton’s Stochastic Logic Programs, Sato’s Prism, Poole’s ICL, De Raedt et al.’s ProbLog

Probabilistic learning from proofs

•Learning the structure of SLPs; a tree-bank grammar based approach, Anderson et al.’s RMMs, Kersting et al.

Two key approachesLogical Probability Models [MLNs, PRMs, BLPs, ...]

• Knowledge Based Model Construction, use (clausal) logic as a template

• generate graphical model on which to perform probabilistic inference and learning

Probabilistic Logical Models [ICL, PRISM, ProbLog, SLPs, ...]

• Annotate logic with probabilities

• perform inference and learning in logic

• illustrate the idea of upgrading


Knowledge Based Model Construction


Possible Worlds -- Knowledge Based Model Construction

Bayesian logic programs (Kersting & De Raedt)

Markov Logic (Richardson & Domingos)

Probabilistic Relational Models (Getoor, Koller, et al.)

Relational Bayesian Nets (Jaeger), ...

Bayesian Networks

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INTERPRETATIONSTATE/DESCRIPTION

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Parameter Estimation

A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6

true true ? true false false

? true ? ? false false

... ... ... ... ... ...

true false ? false true ?

incomplete data setReal-world data: states of some random

variables are missing– E.g. medical diagnose: not

all patient are subjects to all test

– Parameter reduction, e.g. clustering, ...

Parameter Estimation: EM Idea

• In the case of complete data, ML parameter estimation is easy:

– simply counting (1 iteration)

Incomplete data ?

1. Complete data (Imputation)

• most probable?, average?, ... value2. Count

3. Iterate

EM Idea: Complete the dataincomplete data

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true ?

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true false

false ?

complete data

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expected counts

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P B = true A = true( ) = 0.6

B=true A=true =

1.61.6 +1.4

= 0.54

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complete

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Learning Bayesian Networks

Two issues

• parameters (EM or gradient)

• structure (traverse a search space; very much like ILP; start from a DAG, and apply operations + scoring function)

Idea can be upgraded ...

Probabilistic Relational Models (PRMs)

PersonBloodtype

M-chromosomeP-chromosome

Person

Bloodtype M-chromosome

P-chromosome

(Father)

Person


P-chromosome

(Mother)

Table

[Getoor,Koller, Pfeffer]

[Getoor,Koller, Pfeffer]

Probabilistic Relational Models (PRMs)

bt(Person,BT).

pc(Person,PC).

mc(Person,MC).

bt(Person,BT) :- pc(Person,PC), mc(Person,MC).

pc(Person,PC) :- pc_father(Father,PCf), mc_father(Father,MCf).

pc_father(Person,PCf) | father(Father,Person),pc(Father,PC)....

father(Father,Person).

PersonBloodtype

M-chromosomeP-chromosome

Person


P-chromosome

(Father)

Person


P-chromosome

(Mother)

View :

Dependencies (CPDs associated with):

mother(Mother,Person).[Getoor,Koller, Pfeffer]

Probabilistic Relational Models (PRMs)Bayesian Logic Programs (BLPs)

father(rex,fred). mother(ann,fred). father(brian,doro). mother(utta, doro). father(fred,henry). mother(doro,henry).

bt(Person,BT) | pc(Person,PC), mc(Person,MC).pc(Person,PC) | pc_father(Person,PCf), mc_father(Person,MCf).mc(Person,MC) | pc_mother(Person,PCm), pc_mother(Person,MCm).

mc(rex)

bt(rex)

pc(rex)mc(ann) pc(ann)

bt(ann)

mc(fred) pc(fred)

bt(fred)

mc(brian)

bt(brian)

pc(brian)mc(utta) pc(utta)

bt(utta)

mc(doro) pc(doro)

bt(doro)

mc(henry)pc(henry)

bt(henry)

RV State

pc_father(Person,PCf) | father(Father,Person),pc(Father,PC)....

Extension

Intension

Answering Queries

mc(rex)

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bt(ann)

mc(fred) pc(fred)

bt(fred)

mc(brian)

bt(brian)


bt(utta)

mc(doro) pc(doro)

bt(doro)

mc(henry)pc(henry)

bt(henry)

P(bt(ann)) ? Support Network

Answering Queries

mc(rex)

bt(rex)


bt(ann)

mc(fred) pc(fred)

bt(fred)

mc(brian)

bt(brian)


bt(utta)

mc(doro) pc(doro)

bt(doro)

mc(henry)pc(henry)

bt(henry)

P(bt(ann), bt(fred)) ?

P(bt(ann)| bt(fred)) =

P(bt(ann),bt(fredP(bt(fred

Bayes‘ rule

Combining Rules

Students reads two books

Typical, noisy-or, noisy-max,

... P(A|B,C)

P(A|B) and P(A|C)

prepared(Student,Topic) | read(Student,Book),

discusses(Book,Topic).

Noisy-Or

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Knowledge Based Model Construction

Extension + Intension =>Probabilistic Model

Advantages

same intension used for multiple extensions

parameters are being shared / tied together

unification is essential

•learning becomes feasible

• Typical use includes

•prob. inference P(Q | E), P(bt(mary) | bt(john) =o-)

•max. likelihood parameter estimation & structure learning

Bayesian Logic Programs

% apriori nodesnat(0).

% aposteriori nodesnat(s(X)) | nat(X).

nat(0) nat(s(0)) nat(s(s(0)) ...MC

% apriori nodesstate(0).

% aposteriori nodesstate(s(Time)) | state(Time).output(Time) | state(Time)

state(0)

output(0)

state(s(0))

output(s(0))

...HMM

% apriori nodesn1(0).

% aposteriori nodesn1(s(TimeSlice) | n2(TimeSlice).n2(TimeSlice) | n1(TimeSlice).n3(TimeSlice) | n1(TimeSlice), n2(TimeSlice).

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Prolog and Bayesian Nets as Special Case

Learning BLPs

RVs + States = (partial) Herbrand interpretationProbabilistic learning from interpretations

Family(1)pc(brian)=b,

bt(ann)=a,

bt(brian)=?,

bt(dorothy)=a

Family(2)bt(cecily)=ab,

pc(henry)=a,

mc(fred)=?,

bt(kim)=a,

pc(bob)=b

Backgroundm(ann,dorothy),

f(brian,dorothy),

m(cecily,fred),

f(henry,fred),

f(fred,bob),

m(kim,bob),

...

Family(3)pc(rex)=b,

bt(doro)=a,

bt(brian)=?


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Parameter tying

Balios Tool

CLP(BN)

Markov Networks

Markov NetworkThe joint probability distribution P(X1, · · · , Xn) defined by a Markov net-

work factorizes as

P(X1, · · · , Xn) =1Z

!

c:clique

!c(Xc1, · · · , Xckc) (1)

where Z is a normalization constant needed to obtain a probability distribution(summing to 1). It is defined by

Z ="

x1,··· ,xn

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!c(Xc1 = xc1, · · ·, Xckc = xckc) (2)

P(B,E,A, J, M) =1Z

fA,E,B(A,E, B)! fA,J(A, J)! fA,M (A,M) (3)

Markov Network

The joint probability distribution P(X1, · · · , Xn) defined by a Markov net-work factorizes as

P(X1, · · · , Xn) =1Z

!

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!c(Xc1, · · · , Xckc) (1)


Z ="

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P(B,E,A, J, M) =1Z

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The joint probability distribution P(X1, · · · , Xn) defined by a Markov net-work factorizes as

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Relational Markov Networks

Cancer(A)

Smokes(A) Smokes(B)

Cancer(B)

Suppose we have two constants: Anna (A) and Bob (B)

slides by Pedro Domingos

Markov Logic

Cancer(A)

Smokes(A)Friends(A,A)

Friends(B,A)

Smokes(B)

Friends(A,B)

Cancer(B)

Friends(B,B)



Markov Logic

Cancer(A)


Friends(B,A)

Smokes(B)

Friends(A,B)

Cancer(B)

Friends(B,B)



Markov Logic

Cancer(A)


Friends(B,A)

Smokes(B)

Friends(A,B)

Cancer(B)

Friends(B,B)



Markov Logic

Parameter estimation

• discriminative (gradient, max-margin)

• generative setting using pseudo-likelihood

Structure learning

• Similar to (Probabilistic) Inductive Logic Programming

Emphasis of work still on Inference

Learning Undirected Probabilistic Relational

Incorporates objects and relations among the objects into Bayesian and Markov networks

Data cases are Herbrand interpretations

Learning includes principles from

• Inductive logic programming / multi-relational data mining

• Refinement operators

• Background knowledge

• Bias

• Statistical learning

• Likelihood

• Independencies

• Priors

Conclusions Learning from Interpretations


Probabilistic Logical Model

presenilin 2Gene

EntrezGene:81751

Notch receptor processingBiologicalProcessGO:GO:0007220

-participates_in0.220

BiologicalProcess

Gene

Network around Alzheimer Disease

gene

phenotype

probability of connection?

Two terminal network reliability problem [NP-hard]Work by Helsinki group Biomine project [Sevon, Toivonen et al. DILS 06]

Originally formulated as a probabilistic networkWe: upgrade towards probabilistic logic (ProbLog)

Distribution SemanticsDue to Taisuke Sato

• provides a natural basis for many probabilistic logics

• PRISM (Sato & Kameya), PHA & ICL (Poole), ProbLog (De Raedt et al.), CP-logic (Vennekens, ...)

• Will represent a simplified and unifying view as in ProbLog [De Raedt et al.]

Distribution Semantics• probabilistic predicates F

• define using p : q(t1,...,tn)

• denotes that ground atoms q(t1,...,tn)θ are true with probability p

• assume all ground probabilistic atoms to be marginally independent

• logical ones DB

• define as usual using logic program -- WE : PATH predicate

• a similar semantics has been reinvented many times ----

Distribution Semantics

Sato’s distribution semantics unifies the two elementary notions from logic and from probability theory

• a random variable = a ground atom, a proposition

And then uses logic for inference

• atomic choice + definite clause program -> minimal Herbrand model = possible world

Example in ProbLog

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0.9 : y_edge(1,2).0.8 : r_edge(2,3).0.6 : g_edge(3,4)....ProbLog theory T

logical part L

facts mutually independent

[De Raedt, Kimmig, Toivonen, IJCAI 07]

Sampling Subprograms②

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• Biased coins• Independent

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A B C D E F G H+ + + − − + − −

P = 0.9 · 0.8 · 0.6·(1! 0.5) · (1! 0.7) · 0.7·(1! 0.4) · (1! 0.2)

ABCF

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Queries

①→④

P (q|T ) =!

S!L,S|=q

P (S|T )...

path(x,y) :- edge(x,y)path(x,y) :- edge(x,z), path(y,z)

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AH

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ED

F

C

B

①0.6

0.20.7

0.4

0.8

0.50.7

0.9

Queries

①→④

P (q|T ) =!

S!L,S|=q

P (S|T )

path(x,y) :- edge(x,y)path(x,y) :- edge(x,z), path(y,z)

Key Point of ProbLog and Logic

any relation can be defined

Query Probabilityusing proofs

②

④

③

⑤⑥

AH

G

ED

F

C

B

①0.6

0.20.7

0.4

0.8

0.50.7

0.9①→④ABCABEHADGHADGEC

FGHFGECFDBCFDBEH

P (path(1, 4)|T )= P (ABC + ABEH + . . . + FDBEH)

• proofs overlap• disjoint sum•NP-hard• approximation algorithm

[De Raedt et al, IJCAI 07]

Query Probabilityusing Proofs

②

④

③

⑤⑥

AH

G

ED

F

C

B

①0.6

0.20.7

0.4

0.8

0.50.7

0.9

Prism (Sato) and PHA (Poole) avoid the disjoint problem by requiring that

explanations do not overlap

example①→④

Most likely proof /explanation

②

④

③

⑤⑥

AH

G

ED

F

C

B

①0.6

0.20.7

0.4

0.8

0.50.7

0.9

② ④③A CB①0.9 0.60.8

ABC

Abduction

PRISM [Sato 95]btype(Btype) ← gtype(Gf, Gm), pgtype(Btype, Gf, Gm)

gtype(Gf, Gm) ← gene(mother, Gf), gene(father, Gm)pgtype(X, X, X) ← pgtype(X, X, Y) ← dominates(X, Y)pgtype(X, Y, X) ← dominates(X, Y)pgtype(ab, a, b) ← pgtype(ab, b, a) ← dominates(a, o) ← dominates(b, o) ←

Explanations (Abduction !) BK U H |= btype(o)

gene(m, a), gene(f, a) with probability 0.3 X 0.3 = 0.09gene(m, a), gene(f, o) with probability 0.3 X 0.55 = 0.165gene(m, o), gene(f, a) with probability 0.55 X 0.3 = 0.165

So, the probability of the atom bloodtype(a) = 0.09 + 0.165 + 0.165 = 0.42.

disjoint(0.3 : gene(P, a); 0.15 : gene(P, b); 0.55 : gene(P, o))

Learning in PRISM

[1995] : Taisuke Sato introduces EM-algorithm for PRISM; many further refinements and optimizations since then

Input to the system (learning from entailment)

• set of facts btype(o), btype(a), ....

• unobserved: probabilities of facts / disjoint statements / switches; have to be estimated

Very efficient: for many classes of programs (PCFG, PolyTree, HMMs, ...) Prism’s learning algorithm implements the standard ones (inside-outside, Baum-Welsh, ...) !

Distribution SemanticsSemantics ProbLog not really new, rediscovered many times

Intuitively, a probabilistic database

Formally, a distribution semantics [Sato 95]

Other systems, such as Sato’s Prism and Poole’s PHA avoid the disjoint sum problem

• assume that explanations / proofs are mutually exclusive, that is,

• P(A v B v C) = P(A) + P(B) + P(C)

Long term vision: develop an optimized probabilistic Prolog implementation in which other SRL formalisms can be compiled. (work together with Vitor Santos Costa and Bart Demoen, integration in YAP Prolog)

CP-logic [Vennekens et al. ]

Model domain as set of probabilistic causal laws:

Property φ causes some non-deterministic event, which has possible outcome Ai with probability pi.

E.g., “throwing a rock at a glass breaks it with probability 0.3 and misses it with probability 0.7”

(Broken(G):0.3) ∨ (Miss:0.7) ← ThrowAt(G).

Note that the actual non-deterministic event (“rock flying at glass”) is implicit

Slides CP-logic courtesy Joost Vennekens

Semantics:probability trees

State of domain~ logical interpretation

Transition to new state

•0.3

!!!!!!

!!!

0.7

"""""

""""

•0.5

!!!!!!

!!!

0.5

##

•

0.6

##

0.4

"""""

""""

• • • •

Transition prob.Non-deterministic

event

Prob. distr. over final states


Semantics(Broken(G):0.3) ∨ (Miss:0.7)

← ThrowAt(G).•

0.3

!!!!!!

!!!

0.7

"""""

""""

• •

I |= ThrowAt(G)

I ! {Broken(G)} I ! {Miss}

Probability tree is an execution model of theory iff:

• Each tree-transition matches causal law• The tree cannot be extended


Example

•

1John throws

!!•

0.6

Window breaks

""!!!!!!!!!!!!

0.4

doesn’t break

##""""""""""""

•

0.5

Mary throws

""!!!!!!!!!!!!

0.5doesn’t throw

!!

•

0.5

Mary throws

""!!!!!!!!!!!!

0.5doesn’t throw

!!•

0.8

Window breaks

""!!!!!!!!!!!!

0.2doesn’t break

!!

• •

0.8

Window breaks

""!!!!!!!!!!!!

0.2doesn’t break

!!

•

• • • •

(Break : 0.8)! Throws(Mary).(Break : 0.6)! Throws(John).

(Throws(Mary) : 0.5)! .

Throws(John)! .

P (Break) = 0.6 + 0.4 · 0.5 · 0.8 = 0.76Slides CP-logic courtesy Joost Vennekens

TheoremEach execution model defines the same probability

distribution over final states

•For a theory C, we denote the unique distribution generated by its execution models as πC

•This distribution πC can also be constructed using the well-founded model of the “instances” of C


First-orderWe can use logical variables to represent blue-prints for classes of events, e.g.,

Each pit causes a breeze on each square

next to it with prob. α

!x, y (Breeze(x) : !) " NextTo(x, y) # Pit(y).!x (Breeze(x) : !) " #y NextTo(x, y) $ Pit(y).

For each square, being

next to (at least one) pit causes a breeze on it

with prob.α

2 α- α² α

Learning from ProofsProbabilistic Context Free Grammars

1.0 : S -> NP, VP1.0 : NP -> Art, Noun0.6 : Art -> a0.4 : Art -> the0.1 : Noun -> turtle0.1 : Noun -> turtles…0.5 : VP -> Verb0.5 : VP -> Verb, NP0.05 : Verb -> sleep0.05 : Verb -> sleeps….

The turtle sleeps

Art Noun Verb

NP VP

S

1

1 0.5

0.4 0.1 0.05

P(parse tree) = 1x1x.5x.1x.4x.05

PCFGsP (parse tree) =

!i pci

iwhere pi is the probability of rule iand ci the number of timesit is used in the parse tree

P (sentence) ="

p:parsetree P (p)

Observe that derivations always succeed, that isS ! T,Q and T ! R,Ualways yieldsS ! R,U, Q

Probabilistic DCG

1.0 S -> NP(Num), VP(Num)1.0 NP(Num) -> Art(Num), Noun(Num)0.6 Art(sing) -> a0.2 Art(sing) -> the0.2 Art(plur) -> the0.1 Noun(sing) -> turtle0.1 Noun(plur) -> turtles…0.5 VP(Num) -> Verb(Num)0.5 VP(Num) -> Verb(Num), NP(Num)0.05 Verb(sing) -> sleep0.05 Verb(plur) -> sleeps….

The turtle sleeps

Art(s) Noun(s) Verb(s)

NP(s) VP(s)

S

1

1 0.5

0.2 0.1 0.05

P(derivation tree) = 1x1x.5x.1x .2 x.05

Stochastic Logic ProgramsMuggleton, Cussens

In SLP notation

11

1/2

P(s([the,turtles,sleep],[])=1/6

1

1/3

1/2

Probabilistic DCGs

1.0 S -> NP(Num), VP(Num)1.0 NP(Num) -> Art(Num), Noun(Num)0.6 Art(sing) -> a0.2 Art(sing) -> the0.2 Art(plur) -> the0.1 Noun(sing) -> turtle0.1 Noun(plur) -> turtles…0.5 VP(Num) -> Verb(Num)0.5 VP(Num) -> Verb(Num), NP(Num)0.05 Verb(sing) -> sleep0.05 Verb(plur) -> sleeps….

The turtle sleeps


NP(s) VP(s)

S

1

1 0.5

0.2 0.1 0.05


What about “A turtles sleeps” ?

Probabilistic DCGs

S -> NP(s), VP(s)NP(s) -> Art(s), Noun(s)Art(sing) -> theNoun(s) -> turtleVP(s) -> Verb(s)

The turtle sleeps


NP(s) VP(s)

S

1

1 0.5

0.2 0.1 0.05


How to get the variables back ?

Learning from Proof Trees

SLPsPd(derivation) =

!i pci

iwhere pi is the probability of rule iand ci the number of timesit is used in the parse tree

Observe that some derivations now fail due to unification, that isnp(Num)! art(Num), noun(Num) and art(sing)! anoun(plural)! turtles

Normalization necessaryPs(proof) = Pd(proof)P

i Pd(proofi)

Example Application• Consider traversing a university website• Pages are characterized by predicate

department(cs,nebel) denotes the page of cs following the link to nebel

• Rules applied would be of the form department(cs,nebel) :- prof(nebel), in(cs), co(ai), lecturer(nebel,ai). pagetype1(t1,t2) :- type1(t1), type2(t2), type3(t3), pagetype2(t2,t3)

• SLP models probabilities over traces / proofs / web logs department(cs,nebel), lecturer(nebel,ai007), course(ai007,burgard), …This is actually a Logical Markov Model

Logical Hidden Markov Model (cf. Kersting et al. JAIR)Includes also structured observations and abstraction

0.05

0.1

Lect.

Dept

Course

0.7

0.5

0.4

0.1

0.25

0.5

0.4

0.4 department(D,L) :-prof(L), in(D),co(C), lecturer(L,C).

0.1 prof(nebel).0.05 prof(burgard).…

Logical Markov Model

An interesting application exist using RMMs[Anderson and Domingos, KDD 03]

Probabilities on Proofs

Two views

• stochastic logic programs define a prob. distribution over atoms for a given predicate.

• The sum of the probabilities = 1.

• Sampling. Like in probabilistic grammars.

• Distribution semantics define a prob. distribution over possible worlds/interpretations. Degree of belief.

Probabilistic Programming LanguagesThere seems to be a trend towards extending multiple of these Probabilistic Logics towards Programming Languages,

• cf. NIPS-08 Workshop on Probabilistic Programming

• Various other paradigms involved as well, e.g. BLOG (Milch & Russell), IBAL (Pfeffer), Church (Goodmann et al. ), Dyna (Eisner), ...

• Should also allow to efficiently implement SRL systems

Dyna (Eisner et al.)

CKY Algorithm in Dyna constit(X,I,J) += rewrite(X,W) * word(W,I,J).constit(X,I,K) += rewrite(X,Y,Z) * constit(Y,I,J) * constit(Z,J,K).goal += constit(s,0,N) * end(N).

∑ Y,Z,J∑ W

Origins in Natural Language Processing ContextBased on Dynamic ProgrammingUseful for SRL/NLP/Programming

word(john,0,1), word(loves,1,2), word(Mary,2,3)0.003:: np -> Mary as rewrite(np,Mary)=0.0030.5::vp -> verb, np as rewrite(vp,verb,np)=0.5

Implementation Perspective

From an implementation perspective, the following languages are quite close:

• ProbLog, Prism, PHA, Prism

• CP-logic

• Stochastic Logic Programs

• CLP(BN) & BLP (to some degree)

Seems like one way out of the “Alphabet Soup”

TransformationsHave generated an alphabet soup of different languages, models and systems

The relationship is not always entirely clear

• though often statements like “my system can do whatever yours can” in paper with informal arguments

• if these statements are true

• differences are more a matter of elegance (syntactic sugar) than expressiveness ?

• the community may have wasted a lot of time on implementing variants,

• yet there are almost no usable SRL systems in the public domain today

TransformationsImplement a (primitive) probabilistic programming language (ProbLog, Dyna, ICL and Prism)

• primitives should be flexible enough to support key constructs in PP or SRL or PLL

• build optimized inference and learning engines for this language using state-of-the-art programming language & machine learning technology

Compile / transform other languages to this probabilistic programming language

Advantages should be clear.

Transformations

As there is an efficient implementation, one can only gain by employing ProbLog/Prism/Dyna as an implementation language.

This is a win-win situation as compared to a stand-alone special purpose implementation

At the representation level, this does not matter as everyone can work with his preferred representation.

(Simple) Mappings often allow one to also introduce solutions for language Y to language X.

Holds also at the learning level.

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

Markov Decision Process (MDP)MDP M = < S, A, T, R >

where

S: Finite set of states {s1,s2,…,sn}

A: Finite set of actions {a1,a2,…ak}

T(s,a,s’): probability to make a transition to state s’ if action a is used in state s

R(s,a,s’): reward for making a transition from state s to state s’ by doing action a

(also possible: R(s,a) and R(s) )

s

s’

a

7 states1 terminal state

2 actions

Slide Courtesy Martijn Van Otterlo

s

s1s2

s3

s4

s7s6

s5

0.3aaa

a

bbb

0.1

0.5

0.30.1

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0.1

Some PropertiesThe Markov Property:

The current state and action give all possible information for predicting to which next state the agent will step. So… it does not matter how the agent arrived at his current state. (otherwise partially observable, compare chess to poker):

• States can be terminal (absorbing). Chains of steps will not be continued. Modelled as T(s,a,s)=1 (for all a) and R(s,a,s)=0.

• γ is the discount factor.


Policies, Rewards and GoalsA deterministic policy π selects an action as a function of the current state

The goal of an agent is to maximize some performance criterion. Among several, the discounted infinite horizon optimality criterion is often used:

Discount factor γ weighs future rewards.

Now the goal is to find the optimal policy as:

G


G

Problem Setup & Possible Solutions

For MDP M = < S, A, T, R >, we have roughly two situations:

1) Decision-theoretic planning (DTP)

If one has full knowledge about T and R, the setting is called model-based, and one can use (offline) dynamic programming techniques to compute optimal value functions and policies.

2) Reinforcement Learning (RL)

If one does not know T and R, the setting is called model-free, and one has to interact (online) with the environment to get learning samples. This exploration enables one to learn similar value functions and policies as in the model-based setting.

Models (T and R) can sometimes be learned


Relational MDPs and Logical Abstraction

Relational MDP

States “=“ interpretations

e.g. {on(a,b),cl(a),on(b,floor)}

Actions = {move(a,floor)}

semantics

Logical Formalism

Predicates P

Domain D

Action Formalisms(e.g. STRIPS, PPDDL, SitCalc)

on(X,Y), cl(X), cl(Z)

X ≠ Y, Y ≠ Z, X ≠ Z

cl(X), cl(Y), on(X,Z)

X ≠ Y, Y ≠ Z, X ≠ Z

0.9:move(X,Y)

Value functions e.g.

ϕ 10, not ϕ 0

Reward Functions

Policies

syntax

Induction = LRL


Search in unknown environment

Popular Algorithms

• Uninformed LRTA* [Koenig]

• Depth-first

Kersting et al. Advanced Rob. 07

222

Abstract states:

Abstract actions:

Abstract reward model:

Relational MDPs

Policy

224

Using a Relational Polichy

1. Start in State

2. Evaluate logical decision tree

3. Execute Action

4. Observe New State

5. Repeat if goal not yet reached.

move(X

,Y)

cl(X), cl(Y), on(X,Z), X ≠ Y, Y ≠ Z, X ≠ Z

and on(a,b) ≠ on(X,Y)

and on(a,b) ≠ on(X,Z)

a

b

X

Y Z

OWA

Regressionon(X,Y), cl(X), cl(Z)

X ≠ Y, Y ≠ Z, X ≠ Z

cl(X), cl(Y), on(X,Z)

X ≠ Y, Y ≠ Z, X ≠ Z

0.9:move(X,Y)

move(a,b)cl(a), cl(b), on(a,Z), a

≠ b, a ≠ Z, b ≠ Za

bZ

Match on(a,b) with on(X,Y)

a

b


Blocks world: on(a,b)V0:

10: on(a,b)

0 : true

γ = 0.9

actions: deterministic

Difficult for model-free Learners (e.g. RRL-TG)

Optimal for ±59M states


Quite some interestRelational Reinforcement

• (Dzeroski, Driessens, et al),(Shavlik et al.),(Langley et al.)

• relational Q-learning ...

First order Dynamic Programming

• SDP (Boutilier, Reiter, Price, Sanner), REBEL (Kersting et al.), FOADD (Wang, Joshi, Khardon), FOVI (Skovortsova et al.)

Very nice tutorial given by Scott Sanner at ILP-SRL-MLG 09, should become available at videolectures ...

Some Challenges LRLApplication challenges (social networks, robotics, dynamic situations)

Get the right level of representation / efficiency versus expressivity

Visualization of results (graphs - relations)

Theory of Statistical Relational Learning

Connection between relational representations and linear algebra

Learn at Theory Level (sets of interdependent predicates)

Predicate Invention

ConclusionsLogic and relational learning toolbox (take what you need)

• rules & background knowledge

• generality & operators

• upgrading & downgrading

• graphs & relational database & logic

• learning settings

• propositionalization & aggregation

• probabilistic logics

Further Reading

Luc De Raedt


Springer, 2008, 401 pages.

(should be on display at the Springer booth)

Thanks to

Collaborators on previous tutorials, used slides, and specific aspects of this work, esp.

• Kristian Kersting, Angelika Kimmig, Hannu Toivonen, Joost Vennekens, Martijn van Otterlo, ...

Documents

FINAL VERSION IJCAI 2009 TUTORIALlucdr/ijcai09.pdfWayne Aubrey,1 Emma Byrne,1 Maria Liakata,1 Magdalena Markham,1 Pinar Pir,2 Larisa N. Soldatova,1 Andrew Sparkes,1 Kenneth E. Whelan,