Kurt De Grave

Cyril Blanc, Ayyoub Ahar, Kurt De Grave

We present RAISE-LPBF, a large dataset on the effect of laser power and laser dot speed in powder bed fusion (LPBF) of 316L stainless steel bulk material, monitored by on-axis 20k FPS video. Both process parameters are independently sampled for each scan line from a continuous distribution, so interactions of different parameter choices can be investigated. The data can be used to derive statistical properties of LPBF, as well as to build anomaly detectors. We provide example source code for loading the data, baseline machine learning models and results, and a public benchmark to evaluate predictive models.

Paolo Frasconi, Fabrizio Costa, Luc De Raedt et al.

We introduce kLog, a novel approach to statistical relational learning. Unlike standard approaches, kLog does not represent a probability distribution directly. It is rather a language to perform kernel-based learning on expressive logical and relational representations. kLog allows users to specify learning problems declaratively. It builds on simple but powerful concepts: learning from interpretations, entity/relationship data modeling, logic programming, and deductive databases. Access by the kernel to the rich representation is mediated by a technique we call graphicalization: the relational representation is first transformed into a graph --- in particular, a grounded entity/relationship diagram. Subsequently, a choice of graph kernel defines the feature space. kLog supports mixed numerical and symbolic data, as well as background knowledge in the form of Prolog or Datalog programs as in inductive logic programming systems. The kLog framework can be applied to tackle the same range of tasks that has made statistical relational learning so popular, including classification, regression, multitask learning, and collective classification. We also report about empirical comparisons, showing that kLog can be either more accurate, or much faster at the same level of accuracy, than Tilde and Alchemy. kLog is GPLv3 licensed and is available at http://klog.dinfo.unifi.it along with tutorials.