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Unit 3 — Learning from Examples (Induction) — Artificial Intelligence Notes

Learning from Examples — Induction

Inductive learning builds a general rule or concept description from a set of labelled training examples — it is the classical ancestor of nearly all modern supervised machine learning.

The Inductive Learning Setup

Term	Meaning
Positive example	An instance known to belong to the concept being learned
Negative example	An instance known not to belong to the concept
Hypothesis	The general rule the algorithm outputs, meant to correctly classify both seen and future examples
Generalisation	Extending the hypothesis to cover examples beyond exactly those given
Specialisation	Narrowing the hypothesis so it stops covering an incorrectly included case

Worked Example: Learning "What Is an Arch"

Example	Description	Class
1	Two upright blocks + one flat block on top, no touching sides	Positive (Arch)
2	Two upright blocks touching each other + flat block on top	Negative (not an Arch — sides touch)
3	Two upright blocks (not touching) + flat block on top, different colours	Positive (Arch)

From these, the algorithm induces: an arch is two non-touching upright supports with a flat block resting on top; colour is irrelevant. Example 3 forces the generalisation that colour doesn't matter; Example 2 forces the specialisation that the supports must not touch.

Candidate Elimination — Version Space

One classical algorithm maintains two boundaries in the space of possible hypotheses:

Boundary	Meaning
S (specific boundary)	The most specific hypotheses consistent with all examples so far
G (general boundary)	The most general hypotheses consistent with all examples so far

Each new positive example generalises S (if needed) so it still covers the example; each new negative example specialises G (if needed) so it stops covering the example. The true target concept is guaranteed to lie between S and G.

Types of Inductive Learning

Type	Description
Concept learning	Learning a Boolean (yes/no) classification rule, e.g., "is this an arch?"
Learning by generalisation	Broadening a rule to cover more positive cases
Learning by specialisation	Narrowing a rule to exclude negative cases wrongly included
Decision-tree induction	Building a tree of attribute tests that splits examples into their classes (e.g., ID3 algorithm)

Strengths and Limitations

Strengths	Limitations
Requires no hand-written domain theory — learns purely from labelled data	Needs a reasonably large, representative set of examples
General-purpose — the same technique applies across very different concepts	Sensitive to noisy or mislabelled examples
Foundation for modern supervised ML (decision trees, SVMs, neural nets)	Can overfit to peculiarities of the training examples if not careful