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        							<img class="img-responsive center-block" itemprop="image" src="/files/10552//4k8EnmzY_400x400.jpg" alt="Personal photo - Andrew Cropper" /></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-md-4 panel panel-dark-blue panel-condensed equal-height"><div class="panel-body"><p><strong> <span itemprop="givenName">Andrew</span> <span itemprop="familyName">Cropper</span> <span itemprop="honorificSuffix"></span></strong></p><p></p><div itemprop="jobTitle" class="indent">Research Fellow</div><p></p><p></p><div><div itemprop="email" class="scaled-text"><strong>E:</strong> andrew.cropper@cs.ox.ac.uk</div></div><p></p><p class="no-bottom-margin"><span itemprop="workLocation" class="scaled-text"><a class="panel-link" href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/aboutus/directions.html" target="directions">Wolfson Building</a>,
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											</span></p></div></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-md-4 panel panel-light-blue panel-condensed equal-height"><div class="panel-body"><h2 class="panel-subheading text-uppercase no-top-margin">Themes:</h2><ul class="list-comma-separated"><li><a href="/research/ai_ml" class="panel-link"><span itemprop="affiliation">Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning</span></a></li></ul><h2 class="panel-subheading text-uppercase">See Also:</h2><ul class="list-unbulleted"><li style="margin-bottom:0.33em"><!--unknown--><a href="http://andrewcropper.com/" class="panel-link">My homepage</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div><h2>Interests</h2><div>I work on logic and machine learning (<strong><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.07912.pdf">Inductive Logic Programming</a></strong>). I run the <strong><a href="https://www.andrewcropper.com/group">Logic and Learning</a></strong> group and <strong><a href="http://www.autocs.co.uk/">The Automatic Computer Scientist </a></strong>project.</div>
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</div><h2>Selected Publications</h2><p><a href="/people/publications/date/Andrew.Cropper.html" class="btn btn-dark-brown-outline btn-thin text-uppercase">View All</a><a href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/research/publications/manage" class="btn btn-dark-brown-outline btn-thin text-uppercase">Manage publications</a></p><ul class="list-unbulleted list-unbulleted-spaced"><li> <p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Learning Big Logical Rules by Joining Small Rules </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> C&#xe9;line Hocquette&#x201a; Andreas Niskanen&#x201a; Rolf Morel&#x201a; Matti J&#xe4;rvisalo and Andrew Cropper  </em> </p>
	
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In Kate Larson, editor,
             
            <em>
            Proceedings of the Thirty&#x2212;Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence&#x201a; IJCAI&#x2212;24</em>.
        
                Pages 3430&#x2013;3438.
            International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization.
        August,
            2024.
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             href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/380">
            DOI (10.24963/ijcai.2024/380)
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  				</li><li> <p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Learning Logic Programs by Discovering Higher&#x2212;Order Abstractions </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> C&#xe9;line Hocquette&#x201a; Sebastijan Dumancic and Andrew Cropper  </em> </p>
	
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In Kate Larson, editor,
             
            <em>
            Proceedings of the Thirty&#x2212;Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence&#x201a; IJCAI&#x2212;24</em>.
        
                Pages 3421&#x2013;3429.
            International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization.
        August,
            2024.
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            class="publicationNote"> Main Track</p>
	
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            href="/publications/publication16363-abstract.html"> Details   <span class="sr-only" > about <em> Learning Logic Programs by Discovering Higher&#x2212;Order Abstractions  </em></span> </a> | <a
        
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             href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/379">
            DOI (10.24963/ijcai.2024/379)
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  				</li><li> <p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Symbolic metaprogram search improves learning efficiency and explains rule learning in humans </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Joshua S. Rule&#x201a; Steven T. Piantadosi&#x201a; Andrew Cropper&#x201a; Kevin Ellis&#x201a; Maxwell Nye and Joshua B. Tenenbaum  </em> </p>
	
	
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        In <em>Nature Communications</em>.
        
            Vol. 15.
        
            No. 1.
        
                Pages 6847.
            2024.
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            href="/publications/publication16365-abstract.html"> Details   <span class="sr-only" > about <em> Symbolic metaprogram search improves learning efficiency and explains rule learning in humans  </em></span> </a> | <a
        
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             href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50966-x">
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