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Graph Neural Networks Meet Neural-Symbolic Computing: A Survey and Perspective

Artificial Intelligence 2021-06-15 v7 Computation and Language Machine Learning Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

Neural-symbolic computing has now become the subject of interest of both academic and industry research laboratories. Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have been widely used in relational and symbolic domains, with widespread application of GNNs in combinatorial optimization, constraint satisfaction, relational reasoning and other scientific domains. The need for improved explainability, interpretability and trust of AI systems in general demands principled methodologies, as suggested by neural-symbolic computing. In this paper, we review the state-of-the-art on the use of GNNs as a model of neural-symbolic computing. This includes the application of GNNs in several domains as well as its relationship to current developments in neural-symbolic computing.

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@article{arxiv.2003.00330,
  title  = {Graph Neural Networks Meet Neural-Symbolic Computing: A Survey and Perspective},
  author = {Luis C. Lamb and Artur Garcez and Marco Gori and Marcelo Prates and Pedro Avelar and Moshe Vardi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.00330},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Updated version, draft of accepted IJCAI2020 Survey Paper

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