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Deductive learning is a subclass of machine learning that studies algorithms for learning provably correct knowledge. Typically such methods are used to speedup problem solvers by adding knowledge to them that is deductively entailed by existing knowledge, but that may result in faster solutions.
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(2017). Deductive Learning. In: Sammut, C., Webb, G.I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7687-1_206
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