INDUCTIVE INFERENCE FROM NEGATIVE DATA

Inductive Inference from all Positive and Some Negative Data

Inductive inference from theory laden data

Inductive Inference of an Approximate Concept from Positive Data

In ordinary learning paradigm, a target concept, whose examples are fed to an inference machine, is assumed to belong to a hypothesis space which is given in advance. However this assumption is not appropriate, if we want an inference machine to infer or to discover an unknown rule which explains examples or data obtained from scientific experiments. In their previous paper, Mukouchi and Arikaw...

A Negative Result on Inductive Inference of Extended Pattern Languages

Gricean maxims influence inductive inference with negative observations

A robust finding in category-based induction tasks is for positive observations to raise the willingness to generalize to other categories while negative observations lower the willingness to generalize. This pattern is referred to as monotonic generalization. In earlier work, we have found evidence for non-monotonic generalization when negative observations are involved. For example, we presen...