Complex analogies: remarks on the complexity of HDTP

  • Authors:
  • Robert Robere;Tarek Richard Besold

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto, Canada;Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany

  • Venue:
  • AI'12 Proceedings of the 25th Australasian joint conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

After an introduction to Heuristic-Driven Theory Projection (HDTP) as framework for computational analogy-making, and a compact primer on parametrized complexity theory, we provide a complexity analysis of the key mechanisms underlying HDTP, together with a short discussion of and reflection on the obtained results. Amongst others, we show that restricted higher-order anti-unification as currently used in HDTP is W[1]-hard (and thus NP-hard) already for quite simple cases. Also, we obtain W[2]-hardness, and NP-completeness, for the original mechanism used for reducing second-order to first-order anti-unifications in the basic version of the HDTP system.