Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming

Abstract

The combination of logic and probability is very useful for modeling domains with complex and uncertain relationships among entities. Machine learning approaches based on such combinations have recently achieved important results, originating the fields of Statistical Relational Learning, Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming and, more generally, Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence. The tutorial will concentrate on Probabilistic Logic Programming, a form of Probabilistic Programming that is receiving an increasing attention for its ability to combine powerful knowledge representation with Turing completeness. This tutorial will introduce probabilistic logic programming and overview the main systems for learning models in these formalisms both in terms of parameters and of structure. The tutorial includes a significant hands-on experience with the systems ProbLog2 and cplint using the web applications https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/problog/ and http://cplint.eu that the attendants can access with their notebooks via wifi.