Summary of Reasoning with Maximal Consistent Signatures, by Matthias Thimm et al.
Reasoning with maximal consistent signatures
by Matthias Thimm, Jandson Santos Ribeiro Santos
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper explores a specific instance of the general approach to reasoning based on forgetting, analyzing an approach for reasoning with inconsistent information using maximal consistent subsignatures. The authors discuss how forgetting remaining propositions restores consistency, showing that the hitting set duality applies to maximal consistent and minimal inconsistent subsignatures. They also analyze inference relations based on maximal consistent subsignatures wrt rationality postulates from non-monotonic reasoning and computational complexity. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper looks at a special way of thinking about information that might be wrong or inconsistent, using something called “maximal consistent subsignatures.” It shows how to figure out what’s consistent and what’s not, and how this relates to other ways of dealing with inconsistency. The authors also talk about the computational difficulty of doing all this, and how it connects to other ideas in logic and computer science. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference
