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Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is well-suited for runtime decision-making in optimizing the performance of systems where multiple agents coexist and compete for shared resources. However, applying common deep learning-based MARL…

The success of neural networks builds to a large extent on their ability to create internal knowledge representations from real-world high-dimensional data, such as images, sound, or text. Approaches to extract and present these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Lars Holmberg , Paul Davidsson , Per Linde

Prior works have demonstrated that implicit representations trained only for reconstruction tasks typically generate encodings that are not useful for semantic tasks. In this work, we propose a method that contextualises the encodings of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Theo W. Costain , Kejie Li , Victor A. Prisacariu

Deep learning architectures based on convolutional neural networks tend to rely on continuous, smooth features. While this characteristics provides significant robustness and proves useful in many real-world tasks, it is strikingly…

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Topological methods for data analysis present opportunities for enforcing certain invariances of broad interest in computer vision, including view-point in activity analysis, articulation in shape analysis, and measurement invariance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Anirudh Som , Kowshik Thopalli , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Vinay Venkataraman , Ankita Shukla , Pavan Turaga

Graph neural networks trained to predict observable dynamics can be used to decompose the temporal activity of complex heterogeneous systems into simple, interpretable representations. Here we apply this framework to simulated neural…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-17 Cédric Allier , Larissa Heinrich , Magdalena Schneider , Stephan Saalfeld

In recent years, neural systems have demonstrated highly effective learning ability and superior perception intelligence. However, they have been found to lack effective reasoning and cognitive ability. On the other hand, symbolic systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Dongran Yu , Bo Yang , Dayou Liu , Hui Wang , Shirui Pan

Natural language is inherently a discrete symbolic representation of human knowledge. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) and in natural language processing (NLP) seem to contradict the above intuition: discrete symbols are fading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Lorenzo Ferrone , Fabio Massimo Zanzotto

Background: Neuro-symbolic methods enhance the reliability of neural network classifiers through logical constraints, but they lack native support for ontologies. Objectives: We aim to develop a neuro-symbolic method that reliably outputs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Nicolas Lazzari , Valentina Presutti , Antonio Vergari

Experimental evidence indicates that simple models outperform complex deep networks on many unsupervised similarity tasks. We provide a simple yet rigorous explanation for this behaviour by introducing the concept of an optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Vitalii Zhelezniak , Dan Busbridge , April Shen , Samuel L. Smith , Nils Y. Hammerla

In recent years, neuro-symbolic methods have become a popular and powerful approach that augments artificial intelligence systems with the capability to perform abstract, logical, and quantitative deductions with enhanced precision and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yuxuan Wu , Hideki Nakayama

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

Symbolic models or abstractions are known to be powerful tools for the control design of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) with logic specifications. In this paper, we investigate a novel learning-based approach to the construction of symbolic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Kazumune Hashimoto , Adnane Saoud , Masako Kishida , Toshimitsu Ushio , Dimos Dimarogonas

A deep neural network (DNN) with piecewise linear activations can partition the input space into numerous small linear regions, where different linear functions are fitted. It is believed that the number of these regions represents the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Xiao Zhang , Dongrui Wu

Many high-performance models suffer from a lack of interpretability. There has been an increasing influx of work on explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in order to disentangle what is meant and expected by XAI. Nevertheless, there is…

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This article presents an identification methodology to capture general relationships, with application to piecewise nonlinear approximations of model predictive control for constrained (non)linear systems. The mathematical formulation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Van-Vuong Trinh , Mazen Alamir , Patrick Bonnay

Symbolic regression is a technique that can automatically derive analytic models from data. Traditionally, symbolic regression has been implemented primarily through genetic programming that evolves populations of candidate solutions…

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Neural networks are important tools in machine learning. Representing piecewise linear activation functions with tropical arithmetic enables the application of tropical geometry. Algorithms are presented to compute regions where the neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Johnny Joyce , Jan Verschelde

Neurosymbolic artificial intelligence is a growing field of research aiming to combine neural network learning capabilities with the reasoning abilities of symbolic systems. Informed multi-label classification is a sub-field of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Arthur Ledaguenel , Céline Hudelot , Mostepha Khouadjia

The extensive adoption of Deep Neural Networks has led to their increased utilization in challenging scientific visualization tasks. Recent advancements in building compressed data models using implicit neural representations have shown…

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