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The current state-of-the-art in many natural language processing and automated knowledge base completion tasks is held by representation learning methods which learn distributed vector representations of symbols via gradient-based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Tim Rocktäschel

Compositional generalization remains a foundational weakness of modern neural networks, limiting their robustness and applicability in domains requiring out-of-distribution reasoning. A central, yet unverified, assumption in neuro-symbolic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Mahnoor Shahid , Hannes Rothe

Analyzing a visual scene by inferring the configuration of a generative model is widely considered the most flexible and generalizable approach to scene understanding. Yet, one major problem is the computational challenge of the inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Alpha Renner , Lazar Supic , Andreea Danielescu , Giacomo Indiveri , Bruno A. Olshausen , Yulia Sandamirskaya , Friedrich T. Sommer , E. Paxon Frady

Although deep neural networks have shown well-performance in various tasks, the poor interpretability of the models is always criticized. In the paper, we propose a new interpretable neural network method, by embedding neurons into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Wei Han , Yangqiming Wang , Christian Böhm , Junming Shao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), neural network architectures targeted to learning representations of graphs, have become a popular learning model for prediction tasks on nodes, graphs and configurations of points, with wide success in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Stefanie Jegelka

Hypernetworks are neural networks that generate weights for another neural network. We formulate the hypernetwork training objective as a compromise between accuracy and diversity, where the diversity takes into account trivial symmetry…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-10 Lior Deutsch

Neural models have shown promise in solving NP-hard graph combinatorial optimization (CO) problems. Once trained, they offer fast inference and reasonably high-quality solutions for in-distribution testing instances, but they generally fall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jialiang Li , Weitong Chen , Mingyu Guo

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the predominant approach for graph-based machine learning. While neural networks have shown great performance at learning useful representations, they are often criticized for their limited high-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Markus Zopf , Francesco Alesiani

While deep neural networks have led to major advances in image recognition, language translation, data mining, and game playing, there are well-known limits to the paradigm such as lack of explainability, difficulty of incorporating prior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Paulo Shakarian , Gerardo I. Simari

Modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are able to achieve human-level object classification accuracy on specific tasks, and currently outperform competing models in explaining complex human visual representations. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Joshua C. Peterson , Paul Soulos , Aida Nematzadeh , Thomas L. Griffiths

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on a variety of computer vision tasks, particularly visual classification problems, where new algorithms reported to achieve or even surpass the human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Hossein Hosseini , Baicen Xiao , Mayoore Jaiswal , Radha Poovendran

Neural sequence models trained with maximum likelihood estimation have led to breakthroughs in many tasks, where success is defined by the gap between training and test performance. However, their ability to achieve stronger forms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Sean Welleck , Peter West , Jize Cao , Yejin Choi

Most reinforcement learning approaches used in behavior generation utilize vectorial information as input. However, this requires the network to have a pre-defined input-size -- in semantic environments this means assuming the maximum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Patrick Hart , Alois Knoll

Recently many neural models have been proposed to solve combinatorial puzzles by implicitly learning underlying constraints using their solved instances, such as sudoku or graph coloring (GCP). One drawback of the proposed architectures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yatin Nandwani , Vidit Jain , Mausam , Parag Singla

We investigate how neural networks can learn and process languages with hierarchical, compositional semantics. To this end, we define the artificial task of processing nested arithmetic expressions, and study whether different types of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Dieuwke Hupkes , Sara Veldhoen , Willem Zuidema

Current advances in Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in general, and deep learning in particular have reached unprecedented impact not only across research communities, but also over popular media channels. However, concerns…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Artur d'Avila Garcez , Marco Gori , Luis C. Lamb , Luciano Serafini , Michael Spranger , Son N. Tran

We present a framework for the unsupervised learning of neurosymbolic encoders, which are encoders obtained by composing neural networks with symbolic programs from a domain-specific language. Our framework naturally incorporates symbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Eric Zhan , Jennifer J. Sun , Ann Kennedy , Yisong Yue , Swarat Chaudhuri

Advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep neural networks have driven significant progress in vision and text processing. However, achieving human-like reasoning and interpretability in AI systems remains a substantial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Shenzhe Zhu , Shengxiang Sun

When neural networks are used to solve differential equations, they usually produce solutions in the form of black-box functions that are not directly mathematically interpretable. We introduce a method for generating symbolic expressions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Maysum Panju , Ali Ghodsi

Building neural systems that can learn to execute symbolic algorithms is a challenging open problem in artificial intelligence, especially when aiming for strong generalization and out-of-distribution performance. In this work, we introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Flavio Petruzzellis , Alberto Testolin , Alessandro Sperduti