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Uncertainty in logic programming has been widely investigated in the last decades, leading to multiple extensions of the classical LP paradigm. However, few of these are designed as extensions of the well-established and powerful CLP scheme…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-09-13 Rafael Caballero , Mario Rodríguez-Artalejo , Carlos A. Romero-Díaz

Uncertainty in logic programming has been widely investigated in the last decades, leading to multiple extensions of the classical LP paradigm. However, few of these are designed as extensions of the well-established and powerful CLP scheme…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-01-27 R. Caballero , M. Rodriguez-Artalejo , C. A. Romero-Diaz

Over the past three decades, the logic programming paradigm has been successfully expanded to support probabilistic modeling, inference and learning. The resulting paradigm of probabilistic logic programming (PLP) and its programming…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires , Luc De Raedt , Angelika Kimmig

Constraint programming (CP) is a crucial technology for solving real-world constraint optimization problems (COPs), with the advantages of rich modeling semantics and high solving efficiency. Using large language models (LLMs) to generate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Weichun Shi , Minghao Liu , Wanting Zhang , Langchen Shi , Fuqi Jia , Feifei Ma , Jian Zhang

Despite the recent successes of probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) in AI applications, PPLs offer only limited support for random variables whose distributions combine discrete and continuous elements. We develop the notion of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yi Wu , Siddharth Srivastava , Nicholas Hay , Simon Du , Stuart Russell

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit probabilistic output characteristics, yet conventional evaluation frameworks rely on deterministic scalar metrics. This study introduces a Bayesian approach for LLM capability assessment that integrates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Xiao Xiao , Yu Su , Sijing Zhang , Zhang Chen , Yadong Chen , Tian Liu

Deep learning has advanced NLP, but interpretability remains limited, especially in healthcare and finance. Concept bottleneck models tie predictions to human concepts in vision, but NLP versions either use binary activations that harm text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yibo Yang

When expert systems based on causal probabilistic networks (CPNs) reach a certain size and complexity, the "combinatorial explosion monster" tends to be present. We propose an approximation scheme that identifies rarely occurring cases and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-05 Frank Jensen , S. K. Anderson

The field of probabilistic logic programming (PLP) focuses on integrating probabilistic models into programming languages based on logic. Over the past 30 years, numerous languages and frameworks have been developed for modeling, inference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Vincent Derkinderen , Robin Manhaeve , Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires , Luc De Raedt

Advances in the general capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have led to their use for information retrieval, and as components in automated decision systems. A faithful representation of probabilistic reasoning in these models may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Gabriel Freedman , Francesca Toni

The field of statistical relational learning aims at unifying logic and probability to reason and learn from data. Perhaps the most successful paradigm in the field is probabilistic logic programming: the enabling of stochastic primitives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Stefanie Speichert , Vaishak Belle

Uncertainty in Logic Programming has been investigated during the last decades, dealing with various extensions of the classical LP paradigm and different applications. Existing proposals rely on different approaches, such as clause…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-01-17 Mario Rodríguez-Artalejo , Carlos A. Romero-Díaz

While knowledge representation and reasoning are considered the keys for human-level artificial intelligence, connectionist networks have been shown successful in a broad range of applications due to their capacity for robust learning and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Son N. Tran

Discovering pattern sets or global patterns is an attractive issue from the pattern mining community in order to provide useful information. By combining local patterns satisfying a joint meaning, this approach produces patterns of higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-07-19 Patrice Boizumault , Bruno Crémilleux , Mehdi Khiari , Samir Loudni , Jean-Philippe Métivier

Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) is a logic programming formalism used to solve problems requiring the consideration of constraints, like resource allocation and automated planning and scheduling. It has previously been extended in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jeroen Spaans , Jesse Heyninck

A class of valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs) is characterised by a valued constraint language, a fixed set of cost functions on a finite domain. An instance of the problem is specified by a sum of cost functions from the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Vladimir Kolmogorov

Slicing is a program analysis technique originally developed for imperative languages. It facilitates understanding of data flow and debugging. This paper discusses slicing of Constraint Logic Programs. Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gyongyi Szilagyi , Tibor Gyimothy , Jan Maluszynski

When dealing with real-world optimization problems, decision-makers usually face high levels of uncertainty associated with partial information, unknown parameters, or complex relationships between these and the problem decision variables.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Antonio Alcántara , Carlos Ruiz

Probabilistic Logic Programming (PLP), exemplified by Sato and Kameya's PRISM, Poole's ICL, De Raedt et al's ProbLog and Vennekens et al's LPAD, combines statistical and logical knowledge representation and inference. Inference in these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-21 Muhammad Asiful Islam , C. R. Ramakrishnan , I. V. Ramakrishnan

Bayesian reasoning is a powerful mechanism for probabilistic inference in smart edge-devices. During such inferences, a low-precision arithmetic representation can enable improved energy efficiency. However, its impact on inference accuracy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Nimish Shah , Laura I. Galindez Olascoaga , Wannes Meert , Marian Verhelst