PONDY%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA (06/18/84)
From: Peter Andreae <PONDY%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA>
[Forwarded from the MIT bboard by SASW@MIT-MC.]
PRECONDITION ANALYSIS - LEARNING CONTROL INFORMATION
Bernard Silver
Dept. of AI, University of Edinburgh
2pm Wednesday, June 20.
8th Floor Playroom
I will describe LP, a program that learns equation solving strategies from
worked examples. LP uses a new learning technique called Precondition
Analysis. Precondition Analysis learns the control information that is
needed for efficient progblem solving in domains with large search spaces.
Precondition Analysis is similar in spirit to the recent work of Winston,
Mitchell and DeJong. It is an analytic learning technique, and is capable
of learning from a single example.
LP has successfully learned many new equation solving strategies.