Abduction and Argumentation for Explainable Machine Learning: A Position Survey

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12896v1
• Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 13:23:44 GMT
• Title: Abduction and Argumentation for Explainable Machine Learning: A Position Survey
• Authors: Antonis Kakas, Loizos Michael
• Abstract summary: This paper presents Abduction and Argumentation as two principled forms for reasoning. It fleshes out the fundamental role that they can play within Machine Learning.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents Abduction and Argumentation as two principled forms for reasoning, and fleshes out the fundamental role that they can play within Machine Learning. It reviews the state-of-the-art work over the past few decades on the link of these two reasoning forms with machine learning work, and from this it elaborates on how the explanation-generating role of Abduction and Argumentation makes them naturally-fitting mechanisms for the development of Explainable Machine Learning and AI systems. Abduction contributes towards this goal by facilitating learning through the transformation, preparation, and homogenization of data. Argumentation, as a conservative extension of classical deductive reasoning, offers a flexible prediction and coverage mechanism for learning -- an associated target language for learned knowledge -- that explicitly acknowledges the need to deal, in the context of learning, with uncertain, incomplete and inconsistent data that are incompatible with any classically-represented logical theory.

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