Perspective: What’s Old and What’s New
Old: Statistics and probability theory
- Provide the enabling concepts and tools for parameter estimation and fitting, and for testing the results
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New: Representation and exploitation of domain structure
- Decomposability
Enabling scalability and computation-oriented methods
- Discovery of causal relations and statistical independence
Enabling explanation generation and interpretability
- Prior knowledge
Enabling a mixture of knowledge-engineering and induction