Anti-unification and Generalization: A Survey
Anti-unification and Generalization: A Survey
David M. Cerna, Temur Kutsia
Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Survey Track. Pages 6563-6573.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/736
Anti-unification (AU) is a fundamental operation for generalization computation used for inductive inference. It is the dual operation to unification, an operation at the foundation of automated theorem proving. Interest in AU from the AI and related communities is growing, but without a systematic study of the concept nor surveys of existing work, investigations often resort to developing application-specific methods that existing approaches may cover. We provide the first survey of AU research and its applications and a general framework for categorizing existing and future developments.
Keywords:
Survey: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Survey: Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications