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Machine learning efficient time-complexity programs

Supervisor

Suitable for

MSc in Advanced Computer Science
Mathematics and Computer Science, Part C
Computer Science and Philosophy, Part C
Computer Science, Part C

Abstract

"Metaopt [1,2] is an inductive logic programming (ILP) system that learns efficient logic programs from examples. For instance, given input/output examples of unsorted/sorted lists Metaopt learns quicksort (rather than bubblesort). However, Metaopt does not identify the complexity class of learned programs. The goals of this project are to (1) develop methods to identify the complexity class of a program during the learning, and (2) see whether the complexity information can improve the proof search. This work is a mix of theory, implementation, and experimentation.

[1] A. Cropper and S.H. Muggleton. Learning efficient logic programs. Machine learning (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-018-5712-6 [2] A. Cropper and S.H. Muggleton. Learning efficient logical robot strategies involving composable objects. In Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015), pages 3423-3429. IJCAI, 2015."

Prerequisites: familiarity with general machine learning (and preferably computational learning theory) and ideally logic programming