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Thais Luca
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7ranked-venue papers
7as first author
7since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0001-5999-5901ORCID · corroborated
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 7 · 7 first-author · 7 since 2021Theory of computation · 3 · 3 first-author · 3 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Select First, Transfer Later: Choosing a Proper Dataset for SRL and GNN Based Transfer Learning
Thais Luca, Aline Paes, Gerson Zaverucha |
Mach. Learn. | 1 |
| 2026 | Correction to: Select First, Transfer Later: Choosing a Proper Dataset for SRL and GNN Based Transfer Learning
Thais Luca, Aline Paes, Gerson Zaverucha |
Mach. Learn. | 1 |
| 2025 | Towards Robust Neurosymbolic Relational LearningabstractTraditional neural networks (NNs) learn primarily from data, which limits their capacity to represent relational knowledge or handle symbolic relational data effectively. Although graph neural networks (GNNs) address this limitation at the level of relational data, they continue to struggle at learning relational knowledge. Neural-symbolic learning offers a solution by combining machine learning with knowledge representation, enabling the development of interpretable logic-based models learned from neural networks. Bottom clause propositionalization (BCP) is a prominent approach that transforms relational knowledge into attribute-value examples. A bottom clause is a logical representation created from each example as a starting point for the search process. BCP can be used with symbolic learners or neural networks to tackle relational domains. However, BCP often faces significant memory storage problems when handling larger datasets due to the volume of logical literals that it generates. Semi-propositionalization can alleviate these storage problems by grouping logical literals. However, it does not eliminate the substantial time requirements to create a bottom clause for each example. This paper investigates the application of sampling to the examples used for bottom clause generation. The hypothesis is that the number of examples needed to generate bottom clauses can be reduced significantly. Finding representative bottom clauses from data should enable relational learning to take place at an adequate level of abstract relational knowledge rather than simply at the level of the relations between any two data points. We evaluate this hypothesis by training a classifier with different sampling from five relational datasets. We experimentally validate the size of each sampling for each dataset. Experimental results show that training classifiers with fewer relational examples produces competitive results compared to using the entire dataset. The best results are obtained with up to 50% reduction in the set of examples. Thais Luca, Aline Paes, Gerson Zaverucha, Artur S. d'Avila Garcez |
IJCNN | 1 |
| 2024 | Word embeddings-based transfer learning for boosted relational dependency networks
Thais Luca, Aline Paes, Gerson Zaverucha |
Mach. Learn. | 1 |
| 2023 | Select First, Transfer Later: Choosing Proper Datasets for Statistical Relational Transfer Learning
Thais Luca, Aline Paes, Gerson Zaverucha |
ILP | 1 |
| 2022 | Combining Word Embeddings-Based Similarity Measures for Transfer Learning Across Relational Domains
Thais Luca, Aline Paes, Gerson Zaverucha |
ILP | 1 |
| 2021 | Mapping Across Relational Domains for Transfer Learning with Word Embeddings-Based Similarity
Thais Luca, Aline Paes, Gerson Zaverucha |
ILP | 1 |