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NLP tasks differ in the semantic information they require, and at this time no single se- mantic representation fulfills all requirements. Logic-based representations characterize sentence structure, but do not capture the graded aspect of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-09 I. Beltagy , Stephen Roller , Pengxiang Cheng , Katrin Erk , Raymond J. Mooney

Bayesian networks are a canonical formalism for representing probabilistic dependencies, yet their integration within logic programming frameworks remains a nontrivial challenge, mainly due to the complex structure of these networks. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Matteo Acclavio , Roberto Maieli

The importance of building neural networks that can learn to reason has been well recognized in the neuro-symbolic community. In this paper, we apply neural pointer networks for conducting reasoning over symbolic knowledge bases. In doing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Monireh Ebrahimi , Aaron Eberhart , Pascal Hitzler

We propose a new interpretability method for neural networks, which is based on a novel mathematico-philosophical theory of reasons. Our method computes a vector for each neuron, called its reasons vector. We then can compute how strongly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Levin Hornischer , Hannes Leitgeb

Differentiable logics are a family of quantitative logics originated in the machine learning literature. Because of their origin, differentiable logics often come equipped with analytic properties that guarantee that they are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Reynald Affeldt , Alessandro Bruni , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Natalia Ślusarz , Kathrin Stark

Explainable artificial intelligence has rapidly emerged since lawmakers have started requiring interpretable models for safety-critical domains. Concept-based neural networks have arisen as explainable-by-design methods as they leverage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Pietro Barbiero , Gabriele Ciravegna , Francesco Giannini , Pietro Lió , Marco Gori , Stefano Melacci

Application domains that require considering relationships among objects which have real-valued attributes are becoming even more important. In this paper we propose NeuralLog, a first-order logic language that is compiled to a neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Victor Guimarães , Vítor Santos Costa

The paper introduces a propositional linguistic logic that serves as the basis for automated uncertain reasoning with linguistic information. First, we build a linguistic logic system with truth value domain based on a linear symmetrical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Thi-Minh-Tam Nguyen , Viet-Trung Vu , The-Vinh Doan , Duc-Khanh Tran

Probabilistic conceptual network is a knowledge representation scheme designed for reasoning about concepts and categorical abstractions in utility-based categorization. The scheme combines the formalisms of abstraction and inheritance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Kim-Leng Poh , Michael R. Fehling

Natural logic offers a powerful relational conception of meaning that is a natural counterpart to distributed semantic representations, which have proven valuable in a wide range of sophisticated language tasks. However, it remains an open…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Samuel R. Bowman , Christopher Potts , Christopher D. Manning

Possibilistic logic bases and possibilistic graphs are two different frameworks of interest for representing knowledge. The former stratifies the pieces of knowledge (expressed by logical formulas) according to their level of certainty,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Salem Benferhat , Didier Dubois , Laurent Garcia , Henri Prade

Probabilistic logical models are a core component of neurosymbolic AI and are important in their own right for tasks that require high explainability. Unlike neural networks, logical theories that underlie the model are often handcrafted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jonathan Feldstein , Dominic Phillips , Efthymia Tsamoura

Probabilistic graphical models are traditionally known for their successes in generative modeling. In this work, we advocate layered graphical models (LGMs) for probabilistic discriminative learning. To this end, we design LGMs in close…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Yuesong Shen , Tao Wu , Csaba Domokos , Daniel Cremers

Multimodal misinformation poses an escalating challenge that often evades traditional detectors, which are opaque black boxes and fragile against new manipulation tactics. We present Probabilistic Concept Graph Reasoning (PCGR), an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ruichao Yang , Wei Gao , Xiaobin Zhu , Jing Ma , Hongzhan Lin , Ziyang Luo , Bo-Wen Zhang , Xu-Cheng Yin

Combining neural networks with continuous logic and multicriteria decision making tools can reduce the black box nature of neural models. In this study, we show that nilpotent logical systems offer an appropriate mathematical framework for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Orsolya Csiszár , Gábor Csiszár , József Dombi

In this paper, we study the problem of learning probabilistic logical rules for inductive and interpretable link prediction. Despite the importance of inductive link prediction, most previous works focused on transductive link prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Ali Sadeghian , Mohammadreza Armandpour , Patrick Ding , Daisy Zhe Wang

We propose Neural Reasoner, a framework for neural network-based reasoning over natural language sentences. Given a question, Neural Reasoner can infer over multiple supporting facts and find an answer to the question in specific forms.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Baolin Peng , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Kam-Fai Wong

Convincing someone of the truth value of a premise requires understanding and articulating the core logical structure of the argument which proves or disproves the premise. Understanding the logical structure of an argument refers to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Krunal Shah , Dan Roth

We introduce a class of neural networks derived from probabilistic models in the form of Bayesian belief networks. By imposing additional assumptions about the nature of the probabilistic models represented in the belief networks, we derive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. Barber , J. W. Clark , C. H. Anderson

Understanding how the structure of language can be learned from sentences alone is a central question in both cognitive science and machine learning. Studies of the internal representations of Large Language Models (LLMs) support their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Jack T. Parley , Francesco Cagnetta , Matthieu Wyart