Integrated Learning

The paper analyzes the state-of-the-art of machine learning research,and summarizes three learning paradigms:connectionist learning,genetic algorithm and symbolic approach.On the basis of this analysis,the author presents an integrated framework of making a cooperative use of different paradigms.The implementation IR1 is such an example of combining similarity-based learning and explanation-based learning.Also a possibility of integrating connectionist learning with other paradigms is explored here.