Arthur Van Camp

Irrelevant natural extension for choice functions

Arthur Van Camp and Enrique Miranda

Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Volume 103 (ISIPTA 2019), pp. 414 – 423, July 2019.

Selected for the IJAR special issue.

Abstract

We consider coherent choice functions under the recent axiomatisation proposed by De Bock and de Cooman that guarantees a representation in terms of binary preferences, and we discuss how to define conditioning in this framework. In a multivariate context, we propose a notion of marginalisation, and its inverse operation called weak (cylindrical) extension. We combine this with our definition of conditioning to define a notion of irrelevance, and we obtain the irrelevant natural extension in this framework: the least informative choice function that satisfies a given irrelevance assessment.