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Traditional neural embeddings represent concepts as points, excelling at similarity but struggling with higher-level reasoning and asymmetric relationships. We introduce a novel paradigm: embedding concepts as linear subspaces. This…

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Human cognition is a complex process facilitated by the intricate architecture of human brain. However, human cognition is often reduced to quantum theory based events in principle because of their correlative conjectures for the purpose of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Ishwarya M S , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

This paper further studies the fuzzy rough sets based on fuzzy coverings. We first present the notions of the lower and upper approximation operators based on fuzzy coverings and derive their basic properties. To facilitate the computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-02 Guangming Lang , Qingguo Li , Lankun Guo

Emergences of computers and information technological revolution made tremendous changes in the real world and provides a different dimension for the intelligent data analysis. Well formed fact, the information at right time and at right…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-10 D. P. Acharjya , L. Ezhilarasi

Learning Spaces are certain set systems that are applied in the mathematical modeling of education. We propose a suitable compression (without loss of information) of such set systems to facilitate their logical and statistical analysis.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Marcel Wild

This article deals with the description and recognition of fiber bundles, in particular nerves, in medical images, based on the anatomical description of the fiber trajectories. To this end, we propose a logical formalization of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Isabelle Bloch , Enzo Bonnot , Pietro Gori , Giammarco La Barbera , Sabine Sarnacki

Concept discovery is one of the open problems in the interpretability literature that is important for bridging the gap between non-deep learning experts and model end-users. Among current formulations, concepts defines them by as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Adrianna Janik , Kris Sankaran

Visualization researchers and visualization professionals seek appropriate abstractions of visualization requirements that permit considering visualization solutions independently from specific problems. Abstractions can help us design,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Michael Gleicher , Maria Riveiro , Tatiana von Landesberger , Oliver Deussen , Remco Chang , Christina Gillman

The cognitive framework of conceptual spaces [3] provides geometric means for representing knowledge. A conceptual space is a high-dimensional space whose dimensions are partitioned into so-called domains. Within each domain, the Euclidean…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Lucas Bechberger

The definition of the complement of a fuzzy subset is algebraic in nature and when it is used in the context of fuzzy topological spaces it does not share any similarity with the usual property of topological spaces that the complement of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Anjeza Krakulli , Elton Pasku

Formal concept analysis has grown from a new branch of the mathematical field of lattice theory to a widely recognized tool in Computer Science and elsewhere. In order to fully benefit from this theory, we believe that it can be enriched…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-01-23 Pascal Hitzler , Markus Krötzsch , Guo-Qiang Zhang

We present modeling for conceptual combinations which uses the mathematical formalism of quantum theory. Our model faithfully describes a large amount of experimental data collected by different scholars on concept conjunctions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Diederik Aerts , Sandro Sozzo

We propose applying the categorical compositional scheme of [6] to conceptual space models of cognition. In order to do this we introduce the category of convex relations as a new setting for categorical compositional semantics, emphasizing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Josef Bolt , Bob Coecke , Fabrizio Genovese , Martha Lewis , Daniel Marsden , Robin Piedeleu

Learning structured representations of visual scenes is currently a major bottleneck to bridging perception with reasoning. While there has been exciting progress with slot-based models, which learn to segment scenes into sets of objects,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 James C. R. Whittington , Rishabh Kabra , Loic Matthey , Christopher P. Burgess , Alexander Lerchner

Taxonomy Expansion, which models complex concepts and their relations, can be formulated as a set representation learning task. The generalization of set, fuzzy set, incorporates uncertainty and measures the information within a semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Fred Xu , Song Jiang , Zijie Huang , Xiao Luo , Shichang Zhang , Adrian Chen , Yizhou Sun

We present a computational model for the semantic interpretation of symmetry in naturalistic scenes. Key features include a human-centred representation, and a declarative, explainable interpretation model supporting deep semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Jakob Suchan , Mehul Bhatt , Srikrishna Vardarajan , Seyed Ali Amirshahi , Stella Yu

Hyperspaces form a powerful tool in some branches of mathematics: lots of fractal and other geometric objects can be viewed as fixed points of some functions in suitable hyperspaces - as well as interesting classes of formal languages in…

General Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-15 René Bartsch

We revisit the design space of visualizations aiming at identifying and relating its components. In this sense, we establish a model to examine the process through which visualizations become expressive for users. This model has leaded us…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Jose F. Rodrigues , Agma J. M. Traina , Maria C. F. Oliveira , Caetano Traina

The visual representation of concepts or ideas through the use of simple shapes has always been explored in the history of Humanity, and it is believed to be the origin of writing. We focus on computational generation of visual symbols to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-08-01 João Miguel Cunha , Pedro Martins , Amílcar Cardoso , Penousal Machado

We define a symmetric monoidal category modelling fuzzy concepts and fuzzy conceptual reasoning within G\"ardenfors' framework of conceptual (convex) spaces. We propose log-concave functions as models of fuzzy concepts, showing that these…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Sean Tull