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Implicitly defined, continuous, differentiable signal representations parameterized by neural networks have emerged as a powerful paradigm, offering many possible benefits over conventional representations. However, current network…

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Neural network models and deep models are one of the leading and state of the art models in machine learning. Most successful deep neural models are the ones with many layers which highly increases their number of parameters. Training such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Soufiane Belharbi

Symbolic models are abstract descriptions of continuous systems in which symbols represent aggregates of continuous states. In the last few years there has been a growing interest in the use of symbolic models as a tool for mitigating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-07-31 Giordano Pola , Paulo Tabuada

Neural networks are powerful tools for cognitive modeling due to their flexibility and emergent properties. However, interpreting their learned representations remains challenging due to their sub-symbolic semantics. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Andrew Nam , Declan Campbell , Thomas Griffiths , Jonathan Cohen , Sarah-Jane Leslie

Discrete and continuous representations of content (e.g., of language or images) have interesting properties to be explored for the understanding of or reasoning with this content by machines. This position paper puts forward our opinion on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Ruben Cartuyvels , Graham Spinks , Marie-Francine Moens

Neuro-symbolic learning was proposed to address challenges with training neural networks for complex reasoning tasks with the added benefits of interpretability, reliability, and efficiency. Neuro-symbolic learning methods traditionally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Adam Stein , Aaditya Naik , Neelay Velingker , Mayur Naik , Eric Wong

In this paper, a deep neural network approach and a neuro-symbolic one are proposed for classification and regression. The neuro-symbolic predictive models based on Logic Tensor Networks are capable of discriminating and in the same time of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Eduard Hogea , Darian Onchis

In this paper, we present our position for a neuralsymbolic integration strategy, arguing in favor of a hybrid representation to promote an effective integration. Such description differs from others fundamentally, since its entities aim at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Marcio Moreno , Daniel Civitarese , Rafael Brandao , Renato Cerqueira

Brains learn to represent information from a large set of stimuli, typically by weak supervision. Unsupervised learning is therefore a natural approach for exploring the design of biological neural networks and their computations.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-17 Roy Urbach , Elad Schneidman

In this work, we show that neural networks can be represented via the mathematical theory of quiver representations. More specifically, we prove that a neural network is a quiver representation with activation functions, a mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Marco Antonio Armenta , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

Knowledge graphs are an expressive and widely used data structure due to their ability to integrate data from different domains in a sensible and machine-readable way. Thus, they can be used to model a variety of systems such as molecules…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Dominik Dold , Josep Soler Garrido , Victor Caceres Chian , Marcel Hildebrandt , Thomas Runkler

The research area of Networked Control Systems (NCS) has been the topic of intensive study in the last decade. In this paper we give a contribution to this research line by addressing symbolic control design of (possibly unstable) nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-09-05 Alessandro Borri , Giordano Pola , Maria D. Di Benedetto

We consider a class of visual analogical reasoning problems that involve discovering the sequence of transformations by which pairs of input/output images are related, so as to analogously transform future inputs. This program synthesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Atharv Sonwane , Gautam Shroff , Lovekesh Vig , Ashwin Srinivasan , Tirtharaj Dash

Symbolic equations are at the core of scientific discovery. The task of discovering the underlying equation from a set of input-output pairs is called symbolic regression. Traditionally, symbolic regression methods use hand-designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Luca Biggio , Tommaso Bendinelli , Alexander Neitz , Aurelien Lucchi , Giambattista Parascandolo

In certain situations, neural networks will represent environment states in their hidden activations. Our goal is to visualize what environment states the networks are representing. We experiment with a recurrent neural network (RNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Nevan Wichers , Victor Tao , Riccardo Volpato , Fazl Barez

Formal verification has emerged as a powerful approach to ensure the safety and reliability of deep neural networks. However, current verification tools are limited to only a handful of properties that can be expressed as first-order…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Xuan Xie , Kristian Kersting , Daniel Neider

We investigate models of the mitogenactivated protein kinases (MAPK) network, with the aim of determining where in parameter space there exist multiple positive steady states. We build on recent progress which combines various symbolic…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Matthew England , Hassan Errami , Dima Grigoriev , Ovidiu Radulescu , Thomas Sturm , Andreas Weber

In science, we are interested not only in forecasting but also in understanding how predictions are made, specifically what the interpretable underlying model looks like. Data-driven machine learning technology can significantly streamline…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Weiting Liu , Jiaxu Cui , Jiao Hu , En Wang , Bo Yang

Synthesizing programs from examples requires searching over a vast, combinatorial space of possible programs. In this search process, a key challenge is representing the behavior of a partially written program before it can be executed, to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Maxwell Nye , Yewen Pu , Matthew Bowers , Jacob Andreas , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Armando Solar-Lezama

Current open-domain neural semantics parsers show impressive performance. However, closer inspection of the symbolic meaning representations they produce reveals significant weaknesses: sometimes they tend to merely copy character sequences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Xiao Zhang , Gosse Bouma , Johan Bos