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A previous research has shown that most learning strategies fail to learn relational concepts when descriptions involving more than three variables are required. The reason resides in the emergence of a phase transition in the covering test. After an in depth analysis of this aspect, this paper proposes an alternative learning strategy, combining a Monte Carlo stochastic search with local deterministic search. This approach offers two main benefits: on the one hand, substantial advantages over more traditional search algorithms, in terms of increased learning ability, and, on the other, the possibility of an a-priori estimation of the cost for solving a learning problem, under specific assumptions about the target concept.
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Serra, A., Giordana, A. (2001). A Monte Carlo Approach to Hard Relational Learning Problems. In: Esposito, F. (eds) AI*IA 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI*IA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2175. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45411-X_1
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