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Failure attribution in multi-agent systems -- pinpointing the exact step where a decisive error occurs -- is a critical yet unsolved challenge. Current methods treat this as a pattern recognition task over long conversation logs, leading to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Alva West , Yixuan Weng , Minjun Zhu , Zhen Lin , Zhiyuan Ning , Yue Zhang

The growing range of applications of Machine Learning (ML) in a multitude of settings motivates the ability of computing small explanations for predictions made. Small explanations are generally accepted as easier for human decision makers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Alexey Ignatiev , Nina Narodytska , Joao Marques-Silva

Logic-based abduction finds important applications in artificial intelligence and related areas. One application example is in finding explanations for observed phenomena. Propositional abduction is a restriction of abduction to the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Alexey Ignatiev , Antonio Morgado , Joao Marques-Silva

Ontologies formalise how the concepts from a given domain are interrelated. Despite their clear potential as a backbone for explainable AI, existing ontologies tend to be highly incomplete, which acts as a significant barrier to their more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Steven Schockaert , Yazmín Ibáñez-García , Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto

Transformers have recently been shown to be capable of reliably performing logical reasoning over facts and rules expressed in natural language, but abductive reasoning - inference to the best explanation of an unexpected observation - has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Nathan Young , Qiming Bao , Joshua Bensemann , Michael Witbrock

We study abduction in First Order Horn logic theories where all atoms can be abduced and we are looking for preferred solutions with respect to three objective functions: cardinality minimality, coherence, and weighted abduction. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Peter Schüller

We introduce the Abductive Rule Learner with Context-awareness (ARLC), a model that solves abstract reasoning tasks based on Learn-VRF. ARLC features a novel and more broadly applicable training objective for abductive reasoning, resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Giacomo Camposampiero , Michael Hersche , Aleksandar Terzić , Roger Wattenhofer , Abu Sebastian , Abbas Rahimi

The paper introduces a basic logic of knowledge and abduction by extending Levesque logic of only-knowing with an abduction modal operator defined via the combination of basic epistemic concepts. The upshot is an alternative approach to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Sanderson Molick , Vaishak Belle

In this paper we investigate the complexity of abduction, a fundamental and important form of non-monotonic reasoning. Given a knowledge base explaining the world's behavior it aims at finding an explanation for some observed manifestation.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-06-28 Nadia Creignou , Johannes Schmidt , Michael Thomas

Abductive reasoning (or Abduction, for short) is among the most fundamental AI reasoning methods, with a broad range of applications, including fault diagnosis, belief revision, and automated planning. Unfortunately, Abduction is of high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Andreas Pfandler , Stefan Rümmele , Stefan Szeider

ACLP is a system which combines abductive reasoning and constraint solving by integrating the frameworks of Abductive Logic Programming (ALP) and Constraint Logic Programming (CLP). It forms a general high-level knowledge representation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Antonis Kakas

We propose a novel approach for answering and explaining multiple-choice science questions by reasoning on grounding and abstract inference chains. This paper frames question answering as an abductive reasoning problem, constructing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Mokanarangan Thayaparan , Marco Valentino , André Freitas

Recent learning-to-imitation methods have shown promising results in planning via imitating within the observation-action space. However, their ability in open environments remains constrained, particularly in long-horizon tasks. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Jie-Jing Shao , Hao-Ran Hao , Xiao-Wen Yang , Yu-Feng Li

We present a method for extracting general modules for ontologies formulated in the description logic ALC. A module for an ontology is an ideally substantially smaller ontology that preserves all entailments for a user-specified set of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Hui Yang , Patrick Koopmann , Yue Ma , Nicole Bidoit

Abductive Reasoning is a task of inferring the most plausible hypothesis given a set of observations. In literature, the community has approached to solve this challenge by classifying/generating a likely hypothesis that does not contradict…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Seungone Kim

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have recently demonstrated significant potential in mathematical abilities, providing valuable reasoning paradigm consistent with human natural language. However, LLMs currently have difficulty…

In this paper we investigate forgetting in disjunctive logic programs, where forgetting an atom from a program amounts to a reduction in the signature of that program. The goal is to provide an approach that is syntax-independent, in that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-01 James P. Delgrande , Kewen Wang

With help of a compact Prolog-based theorem prover for Intuitionistic Propositional Logic, we synthesize minimal assumptions under which a given formula formula becomes a theorem. After applying our synthesis algorithm to cover basic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Paul Tarau

We present in this paper a reformulation of the usual set-theoretical semantics of the description logic $\mathcal{ALC}$ with general TBoxes by using categorical language. In this setting, $\mathcal{ALC}$ concepts are represented as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ludovic Brieulle , Chan Le Duc , Pascal Vaillant

The extraction of logically-independent fragments out of an ontology ABox can be useful for solving the tractability problem of querying ontologies with large ABoxes. In this paper, we propose a formal definition of an ABox module, such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-12 Jia Xu , Patrick Shironoshita , Ubbo Visser , Nigel John , Mansur Kabuka