Statistical Relational Learning
Pedro Domingos
Dept. Computer Science & Eng.
University of Washington
Overview
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Motivation
Some approaches
Markov logic
Application: Information extraction
Challenges and open problems
Motivation
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Most learners only apply to i.i.d. vectors
But we need to do learning and (uncertain)
inference over arbitrary structures:
trees, graphs, class hierarchies,
relational databases, etc.
All these can be expressed in first-order
logic
Let’s add learning and uncertain inference to
first-order logic
Some Approaches
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Probabilistic logic [Nilsson, 1986]
Statistics and beliefs [Halpern, 1990]
Knowledge-based model construction
[Wellman et al., 1992]
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Stochastic logic programs [Muggleton, 1996]
Probabilistic relational models [Friedman et al., 1999]
Relational Markov networks [Taskar et al., 2002]
Markov logic [Richardson & Domingos, 2004]
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Bayesian logic [Milch et al., 2005]
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Etc.
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Markov Logic
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Logical formulas are hard constraints
on the possible states of the world
Let’s make them soft constraints:
When a state violates a formula,
It becomes less probable, not impossible
Give each formula a weight
(Higher weight  Stronger constraint)
More precisely:
Consider each grounding of a formula
Example: Friends & Smokers
1.5 x Smokes( x )  Cancer ( x )
1.1 x, y Friends ( x, y )  Smokes( x )  Smokes( y ) 
Two constants: Anna (A) and Bob (B)
Friends(A,B)
Friends(A,A)
Smokes(A)
Smokes(B)
Cancer(A)
Friends(B,B)
Cancer(B)
Friends(B,A)
Markov Logic (Contd.)
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Probability of a state x:
1
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P( x)  exp   wi ni ( x) 
Z
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Weight of formula i
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No. of true groundings of formula i in x
Most discrete statistical models are special
cases (e.g., Bayes nets, HMMs, etc.)
First-order logic is infinite-weight limit
Key Ingredients
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Logical inference:
Satisfiability testing
Probabilistic inference:
Markov chain Monte Carlo
Inductive logic programming:
Search with clause refinement operators
Statistical learning:
Weight optimization by conjugate gradient
Alchemy
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Open-source software available at:
alchemy.cs.washington.edu
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A new kind of programming language
Write formulas, learn weights, do inference
Haven’t we seen this before?
Yes, but without learning and uncertain
inference
Example:
Information Extraction
Parag Singla and Pedro Domingos, “Memory-Efficient
Inference in Relational Domains” (AAAI-06).
Singla, P., & Domingos, P. (2006). Memory-efficent
inference in relatonal domains. In Proceedings of the
Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(pp. 500-505). Boston, MA: AAAI Press.
H. Poon & P. Domingos, Sound and Efficient Inference
with Probabilistic and Deterministic Dependencies”, in
Proc. AAAI-06, Boston, MA, 2006.
P. Hoifung (2006). Efficent inference. In Proceedings of the
Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Segmentation
Author
Title
Venue
Parag Singla and Pedro Domingos, “Memory-Efficient
Inference in Relational Domains” (AAAI-06).
Singla, P., & Domingos, P. (2006). Memory-efficent
inference in relatonal domains. In Proceedings of the
Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(pp. 500-505). Boston, MA: AAAI Press.
H. Poon & P. Domingos, Sound and Efficient Inference
with Probabilistic and Deterministic Dependencies”, in
Proc. AAAI-06, Boston, MA, 2006.
P. Hoifung (2006). Efficent inference. In Proceedings of the
Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Entity Resolution
Parag Singla and Pedro Domingos, “Memory-Efficient
Inference in Relational Domains” (AAAI-06).
Singla, P., & Domingos, P. (2006). Memory-efficent
inference in relatonal domains. In Proceedings of the
Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(pp. 500-505). Boston, MA: AAAI Press.
H. Poon & P. Domingos, Sound and Efficient Inference
with Probabilistic and Deterministic Dependencies”, in
Proc. AAAI-06, Boston, MA, 2006.
P. Hoifung (2006). Efficent inference. In Proceedings of the
Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Entity Resolution
Parag Singla and Pedro Domingos, “Memory-Efficient
Inference in Relational Domains” (AAAI-06).
Singla, P., & Domingos, P. (2006). Memory-efficent
inference in relatonal domains. In Proceedings of the
Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(pp. 500-505). Boston, MA: AAAI Press.
H. Poon & P. Domingos, Sound and Efficient Inference
with Probabilistic and Deterministic Dependencies”, in
Proc. AAAI-06, Boston, MA, 2006.
P. Hoifung (2006). Efficent inference. In Proceedings of the
Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
State of the Art
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Segmentation
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Entity resolution
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HMM (or CRF) to assign each token to a field
Logistic regression to predict same field/citation
Transitive closure
Alchemy implementation: Seven formulas
Types and Predicates
token = {Parag, Singla, and, Pedro, ...}
field = {Author, Title, Venue}
citation = {C1, C2, ...}
position = {0, 1, 2, ...}
Token(token, position, citation)
InField(position, field, citation)
SameField(field, citation, citation)
SameCit(citation, citation)
Types and Predicates
token = {Parag, Singla, and, Pedro, ...}
field = {Author, Title, Venue, ...}
citation = {C1, C2, ...}
position = {0, 1, 2, ...}
Token(token, position, citation)
InField(position, field, citation)
SameField(field, citation, citation)
SameCit(citation, citation)
Optional
Types and Predicates
token = {Parag, Singla, and, Pedro, ...}
field = {Author, Title, Venue}
citation = {C1, C2, ...}
position = {0, 1, 2, ...}
Token(token, position, citation)
Input
InField(position, field, citation)
SameField(field, citation, citation)
SameCit(citation, citation)
Types and Predicates
token = {Parag, Singla, and, Pedro, ...}
field = {Author, Title, Venue}
citation = {C1, C2, ...}
position = {0, 1, 2, ...}
Token(token, position, citation)
InField(position, field, citation)
SameField(field, citation, citation)
SameCit(citation, citation)
Output
Formulas
Token(+t,i,c) => InField(i,+f,c)
InField(i,+f,c) <=> InField(i+1,+f,c)
f != f’ => (!InField(i,+f,c) v !InField(i,+f’,c))
Token(+t,i,c) ^ InField(i,+f,c) ^ Token(+t,i’,c’)
^ InField(i’,+f,c’) => SameField(+f,c,c’)
SameField(+f,c,c’) <=> SameCit(c,c’)
SameField(f,c,c’) ^ SameField(f,c’,c”)
=> SameField(f,c,c”)
SameCit(c,c’) ^ SameCit(c’,c”) => SameCit(c,c”)
Formulas
Token(+t,i,c) => InField(i,+f,c)
InField(i,+f,c) <=> InField(i+1,+f,c)
f != f’ => (!InField(i,+f,c) v !InField(i,+f’,c))
Token(+t,i,c) ^ InField(i,+f,c) ^ Token(+t,i’,c’)
^ InField(i’,+f,c’) => SameField(+f,c,c’)
SameField(+f,c,c’) <=> SameCit(c,c’)
SameField(f,c,c’) ^ SameField(f,c’,c”)
=> SameField(f,c,c”)
SameCit(c,c’) ^ SameCit(c’,c”) => SameCit(c,c”)
Formulas
Token(+t,i,c) => InField(i,+f,c)
InField(i,+f,c) <=> InField(i+1,+f,c)
f != f’ => (!InField(i,+f,c) v !InField(i,+f’,c))
Token(+t,i,c) ^ InField(i,+f,c) ^ Token(+t,i’,c’)
^ InField(i’,+f,c’) => SameField(+f,c,c’)
SameField(+f,c,c’) <=> SameCit(c,c’)
SameField(f,c,c’) ^ SameField(f,c’,c”)
=> SameField(f,c,c”)
SameCit(c,c’) ^ SameCit(c’,c”) => SameCit(c,c”)
Formulas
Token(+t,i,c) => InField(i,+f,c)
InField(i,+f,c) <=> InField(i+1,+f,c)
f != f’ => (!InField(i,+f,c) v !InField(i,+f’,c))
Token(+t,i,c) ^ InField(i,+f,c) ^ Token(+t,i’,c’)
^ InField(i’,+f,c’) => SameField(+f,c,c’)
SameField(+f,c,c’) <=> SameCit(c,c’)
SameField(f,c,c’) ^ SameField(f,c’,c”)
=> SameField(f,c,c”)
SameCit(c,c’) ^ SameCit(c’,c”) => SameCit(c,c”)
Formulas
Token(+t,i,c) => InField(i,+f,c)
InField(i,+f,c) <=> InField(i+1,+f,c)
f != f’ => (!InField(i,+f,c) v !InField(i,+f’,c))
Token(+t,i,c) ^ InField(i,+f,c) ^ Token(+t,i’,c’)
^ InField(i’,+f,c’) => SameField(+f,c,c’)
SameField(+f,c,c’) <=> SameCit(c,c’)
SameField(f,c,c’) ^ SameField(f,c’,c”)
=> SameField(f,c,c”)
SameCit(c,c’) ^ SameCit(c’,c”) => SameCit(c,c”)
Formulas
Token(+t,i,c) => InField(i,+f,c)
InField(i,+f,c) <=> InField(i+1,+f,c)
f != f’ => (!InField(i,+f,c) v !InField(i,+f’,c))
Token(+t,i,c) ^ InField(i,+f,c) ^ Token(+t,i’,c’)
^ InField(i’,+f,c’) => SameField(+f,c,c’)
SameField(+f,c,c’) <=> SameCit(c,c’)
SameField(f,c,c’) ^ SameField(f,c’,c”)
=> SameField(f,c,c”)
SameCit(c,c’) ^ SameCit(c’,c”) => SameCit(c,c”)
Formulas
Token(+t,i,c) => InField(i,+f,c)
InField(i,+f,c) <=> InField(i+1,+f,c)
f != f’ => (!InField(i,+f,c) v !InField(i,+f’,c))
Token(+t,i,c) ^ InField(i,+f,c) ^ Token(+t,i’,c’)
^ InField(i’,+f,c’) => SameField(+f,c,c’)
SameField(+f,c,c’) <=> SameCit(c,c’)
SameField(f,c,c’) ^ SameField(f,c’,c”)
=> SameField(f,c,c”)
SameCit(c,c’) ^ SameCit(c’,c”) => SameCit(c,c”)
Formulas
Token(+t,i,c) => InField(i,+f,c)
InField(i,+f,c) ^ !Token(“.”,i,c) <=> InField(i+1,+f,c)
f != f’ => (!InField(i,+f,c) v !InField(i,+f’,c))
Token(+t,i,c) ^ InField(i,+f,c) ^ Token(+t,i’,c’)
^ InField(i’,+f,c’) => SameField(+f,c,c’)
SameField(+f,c,c’) <=> SameCit(c,c’)
SameField(f,c,c’) ^ SameField(f,c’,c”)
=> SameField(f,c,c”)
SameCit(c,c’) ^ SameCit(c’,c”) => SameCit(c,c”)
Results: Segmentation on Cora
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Precision
0.8
0.6
0.4
Tokens
0.2
Tok. + Seq. + Period
Tokens + Sequence
Tok. + Seq. + P. + Comma
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0
0.2
0.4
0.6
Recall
0.8
1
Results:
Matching Venues on Cora
1
Precision
0.8
0.6
Similarity
0.4
Sim. + Relations
Sim. + Transitivity
0.2
Sim. + Rel. + Trans.
0
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
Recall
0.8
1
Challenges and Open Problems
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Scaling up learning and inference
Model design (aka knowledge engineering)
Generalizing across domain sizes
Continuous distributions
Relational data streams
Relational decision theory
Statistical predicate invention
Experiment design