KR Topics Overview

Knowledge representation issues, mapping, frame problem

Predicate logic, facts in logic, representing instance and Isa relationship, Resolution

Procedural and declarative knowledge, matching, control knowledge

Symbolic reasoning under uncertainty

Non monotonic reasoning, statistical reasoning

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🔹 1. Knowledge Representation Issues, Mapping, Frame Problem

KR Issues:

Representation Accuracy: Capturing real-world knowledge correctly.

Inferencing Efficiency: Speed and correctness of deriving conclusions.

Expressiveness vs. Simplicity: Balancing complexity and usability.

Ambiguity: One sentence can have multiple interpretations.

Mapping:
Translating real-world concepts into a representational model (e.g., logic, frames, semantic
nets).

Enables reasoning engines to manipulate and infer new facts.

Frame Problem:
Difficulty in representing what does not change when an action occurs.

E.g., opening a door changes its state but not the color of the walls—how do we efficiently
represent all unchanged facts?

🔹 2. Predicate Logic, Facts in Logic, Representing Instance and Isa Relationship,

Resolution

Predicate Logic:

Extends propositional logic by using predicates with variables.

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 Example: `Human(Socrates)` or `∀x Human(x) → Mortal(x)`
Facts in Logic:
Simple statements like `Cat(Tom)` (Tom is a cat), `Likes(John, Pizza)`.

Instance Relationship:
Declares an object as an instance of a class.

`Human(Socrates)` → Socrates is a human.

Isa Relationship:

Hierarchical connection between categories.

`Human ⊆ Mammal`, `Socrates isa Human`

Resolution:
A rule of inference used in automated theorem proving.
Combines clauses to eliminate variables and derive conclusions.

🔹 3. Procedural and Declarative Knowledge, Matching, Control Knowledge

Procedural Knowledge:

"How-to" knowledge.

E.g., algorithms, rules like “if traffic light is red, stop.”

Declarative Knowledge:

"What-is" knowledge (facts and relationships).

E.g., `Capital(France, Paris)`

Matching:
Process of finding rules or facts that correspond to the current situation (used in rule-based
systems).

Control Knowledge:

Guides the application of procedural knowledge.

E.g., choosing the best strategy among alternatives.

🔹 4. Symbolic Reasoning Under Uncertainty

Symbolic Reasoning:

Using symbols and logic to derive conclusions.

Works well when knowledge is complete and certain.

Under Uncertainty:
Real-world data is often incomplete/noisy.

Techniques used:

Fuzzy logic, Bayesian inference, Dempster-Shafer theory.

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🔹 5. Non-Monotonic Reasoning, Statistical Reasoning
Non-Monotonic Reasoning:
Conclusions can be retracted when new information is added.

Opposite of classical logic where added knowledge can't invalidate previous inferences.

E.g., “Birds fly.” → “Tweety is a bird.” → assume “Tweety flies.”

If later: “Tweety is a penguin.” → retract the previous conclusion.

Statistical Reasoning:
Uses probabilities to handle uncertain knowledge.

Commonly involves Bayesian Networks, Markov Models, etc.

Example: “There’s a 90% chance it will rain if clouds are dense.”

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Game Playing, minimax search, Alfa beta cut-offs

Natural Language Processing

Learning, Explanation-based learning, discovery, analogy

Neural net learning and Genetic Learning

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🔹 1. Game Playing, Minimax Search, Alpha-Beta Cutoffs

Game Playing:

AI agents used in games (like Chess or Tic-Tac-Toe).

Goal: Select the best possible move using search and evaluation strategies.
Minimax Search:

A decision rule for minimizing the possible loss in a worst-case scenario.

Assumes two players: Maximizer (tries to win) and Minimizer (opponent).
Evaluates all possible moves up to a certain depth, using a heuristic at leaf nodes.

Alpha-Beta Cutoffs (Pruning):

Optimizes minimax by cutting off branches that won’t affect the final decision.

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 Alpha: best (highest) value that the maximizer can guarantee.

Beta: best (lowest) value that the minimizer can guarantee.

Cutoff occurs when: `beta ≤ alpha` → prune that branch.

🔹 2. Natural Language Processing (NLP)

NLP:

Enables machines to understand, interpret, and generate human language.

Key Tasks:

Tokenization: Breaking text into words/tokens.

POS Tagging: Assigning parts of speech (noun, verb, etc.).
Parsing: Analyzing grammar structure.

Named Entity Recognition: Identifying names, locations, etc.

Sentiment Analysis: Understanding emotions behind text.
NLP uses both symbolic (grammar-based) and statistical (ML-based) techniques.

🔹 3. Learning, Explanation-Based Learning, Discovery, Analogy

Learning in AI:
Process of improving system performance through experience or data.

Types: Supervised, Unsupervised, Reinforcement Learning.

Explanation-Based Learning (EBL):
Learns by explaining why an example is an instance of a concept.

Extracts general rules from specific examples and domain knowledge.

Example: Learns to classify “why this problem-solving method works.”
Discovery:

Involves finding new patterns or regularities from data.

Common in unsupervised learning and data mining.
Analogy:

Learning by comparing new problems with known problems.

Helps transfer knowledge from a source domain to a target domain.

🔹 4. Neural Net Learning and Genetic Learning

Neural Network Learning:
Mimics the brain's structure using interconnected nodes (neurons).
Learns through adjusting weights using backpropagation.

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 Popular architectures: Feedforward, CNN, RNN.

Used in image recognition, NLP, recommendation systems.

Genetic Learning (Genetic Algorithms):
Inspired by Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Key steps:

1. Initialization – Random population.

2. Selection – Fittest individuals selected.

3. Crossover – Combine parts of two solutions.

4. Mutation – Random alteration to maintain diversity.
Used for optimization and search problems.

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Fuzzy logic systems, Perception and action

Expert systems, Inference in Bayesian Networks

K-means Clustering Algorithm

Machine learning

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🔹 1. Fuzzy Logic Systems, Perception and Action

Fuzzy Logic Systems:
Deals with degrees of truth rather than binary true/false.

Useful when information is imprecise or vague.

Example: Temperature is not just “hot” or “cold”, but can be "warm" to a certain degree (e.g.,
0.7 hot).

Components:
Fuzzification: Convert crisp inputs to fuzzy values.
Inference: Apply fuzzy rules (e.g., IF temperature is high THEN fan speed is fast).

Defuzzification: Convert fuzzy output to crisp value.

Perception and Action:
Perception: Sensing the environment (e.g., using cameras, microphones).

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 Action: Performing operations in the environment (e.g., moving a robot arm).
In intelligent agents, perception feeds data into the system → action results from decisions
based on that input.

🔹 2. Expert Systems, Inference in Bayesian Networks

Expert Systems:

Computer systems that emulate decision-making ability of a human expert.

Components:
Knowledge base: Domain knowledge in rule form.

Inference engine: Applies rules to known facts to deduce new facts.

User interface: Communication bridge between system and user.

Example: MYCIN (medical diagnosis).

Inference in Bayesian Networks:
Bayesian Networks are probabilistic graphical models representing variables and their
dependencies.

Each node = a variable; edges = probabilistic dependencies.

Inference = computing probabilities of unknown variables given known ones.

Used in diagnosis, prediction, and decision-making under uncertainty.

🔹 3. K-Means Clustering Algorithm

K-Means Clustering:

Unsupervised learning algorithm used for grouping data into k clusters.

Steps:

1. Choose `k` initial centroids randomly.

2. Assign each point to the nearest centroid (form clusters).

3. Recompute centroids as the average of points in each cluster.

4. Repeat steps 2–3 until convergence (no major changes in clusters).

Objective: Minimize the intra-cluster variance (distance within clusters).

Applications: Image compression, customer segmentation.

🔹 4. Machine Learning
Machine Learning (ML):

Subfield of AI focused on learning patterns from data to make predictions or decisions.

Types:
Supervised Learning: Learn from labeled data (e.g., spam detection).

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 Unsupervised Learning: Find patterns in unlabeled data (e.g., clustering).

Reinforcement Learning: Learn via rewards/punishments (e.g., game playing).

Key Concepts:

Model, Training, Testing, Overfitting, Generalization.

Common algorithms: Linear Regression, Decision Trees, Neural Networks, SVMs.

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AI Definition, Problems, The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Techniques, Models

Defining Problem as a state space search, production system

Intelligent Agents: Agents and Environments, Characteristics

Search methods and issues in the design of search problems

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🔹 1. AI Definition, Problems, Foundations, Techniques, Models

Definition of AI:

AI is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines that can perform tasks
requiring human intelligence—such as reasoning, learning, problem-solving, perception, and
language understanding.

AI Problems:
Game playing, speech recognition, language translation, robotics, medical diagnosis, etc.

Foundations of AI:

Mathematics (logic, probability)

Philosophy (reasoning, ethics)

Neuroscience (brain modeling)

Computer science (algorithms, complexity)

Psychology (cognitive models)

Linguistics (language understanding)

AI Techniques:

Search algorithms, knowledge representation, reasoning, machine learning, neural networks,

and natural language processing.

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 AI Models:

Symbolic AI: Uses logic and rules (e.g., expert systems).

Sub-symbolic AI: Includes neural networks and genetic algorithms.

Statistical Models: Probabilistic reasoning, Bayesian networks.

Hybrid Models: Combine symbolic and sub-symbolic techniques.

🔹 2. Defining Problem as a State Space Search, Production System

State Space Search:

Problem is defined by:

Initial state

Actions (or operators)

Goal state
Path cost

AI searches through possible states to find a solution path from start to goal.

Production System:
A way to represent problem-solving knowledge.

Composed of:

A set of rules (IF-THEN)

Working memory (current state)

Control strategy (rule selection method)

Example:
Rule: IF light is red THEN stop.

State: light is red → rule fires → action: stop.

🔹 3. Intelligent Agents: Agents and Environments, Characteristics

Agent:

An entity that perceives its environment and acts upon it.

Structure: `Agent = Architecture + Program`

Environment:

The external world the agent operates in.

Types:
Fully/Partially Observable

Deterministic/Stochastic

Episodic/Sequential

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 Static/Dynamic

Discrete/Continuous
Agent Characteristics:

Autonomy: Operates without human intervention.

Reactivity: Responds to environmental changes.

Pro-activeness: Goal-directed behavior.

Social ability: Communicates with other agents or humans.

🔹 4. Search Methods and Issues in the Design of Search Problems

Search Methods:

Uninformed (Blind):

BFS (Breadth-First Search)

DFS (Depth-First Search)

UCS (Uniform Cost Search)

Informed (Heuristic):
Best-First Search

A* Search

Greedy Search
Design Issues:

State Representation: How to define and store states efficiently.

Search Space Size: Number of possible states can be huge.

Efficiency: Minimize time and memory.

Completeness: Does the algorithm always find a solution?

Optimality: Is the found solution the best?

Heuristic Quality: A good heuristic improves performance significantly.

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