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In this paper we study lifted inference for the Weighted First-Order Model Counting problem (WFOMC), which counts the assignments that satisfy a given sentence in first-order logic (FOL); it has applications in Statistical Relational…

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Reconciling the tension between inductive learning and deductive reasoning in first-order relational domains is a longstanding challenge in AI. We study the problem of answering queries in a first-order relational probabilistic logic…

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Weighted first-order model counting (WFOMC) is a central task in lifted probabilistic inference: It asks for the weighted sum of all models of a first-order sentence over a finite domain. A long line of work has identified domain-liftable…

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A discrete Fourier analysis associated with translation lattices is developed recently by the authors. It permits two lattices, one determining the integral domain and the other determining the family of exponential functions. Possible…

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We analyze variational inference for highly symmetric graphical models such as those arising from first-order probabilistic models. We first show that for these graphical models, the tree-reweighted variational objective lends itself to a…

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We examine the complexity of inference in Bayesian networks specified by logical languages. We consider representations that range from fragments of propositional logic to function-free first-order logic with equality; in doing so we cover…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Fabio Gagliardi Cozman , Denis Deratani Mauá

Statistical Relational Learning (SRL) integrates First-Order Logic (FOL) and probability theory for learning and inference over relational data. Probabilistic inference and learning in many SRL models can be reduced to Weighted First Order…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Sagar Malhotra , Luciano Serafini

Weighted model counting (WMC) is the task of computing the weighted sum of all satisfying assignments (i.e., models) of a propositional formula. Similarly, weighted model sampling (WMS) aims to randomly generate models with probability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yuanhong Wang , Juhua Pu , Yuyi Wang , Ondřej Kuželka

Large language models (LLMs) have made notable progress in logical reasoning, yet still fall short of human-level performance. Current boosting strategies rely on expert-crafted in-domain demonstrations, limiting their applicability in…

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Graphical models for structured domains are powerful tools, but the computational complexities of combinatorial prediction spaces can force restrictions on models, or require approximate inference in order to be tractable. Instead of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Stephen Bach , Bert Huang , Ben London , Lise Getoor

A variety of lifted inference algorithms, which exploit model symmetry to reduce computational cost, have been proposed to render inference tractable in probabilistic relational models. Most existing lifted inference algorithms operate only…

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Neural networks (NNs) achieve outstanding performance in many domains; however, their decision processes are often opaque and their inference can be computationally expensive in resource-constrained environments. We recently proposed…

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Lifted probabilistic inference algorithms exploit regularities in the structure of graphical models to perform inference more efficiently. More specifically, they identify groups of interchangeable variables and perform inference once per…

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The great advances of learning-based approaches in image processing and computer vision are largely based on deeply nested networks that compose linear transfer functions with suitable non-linearities. Interestingly, the most frequently…

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Markov Logic Networks (MLNs) are well-suited for expressing statistics such as "with high probability a smoker knows another smoker" but not for expressing statements such as "there is a smoker who knows most other smokers", which is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto , Jean Christoph Jung , Ondrej Kuzelka

Lifted inference reduces the complexity of inference in relational probabilistic models by identifying groups of constants (or atoms) which behave symmetric to each other. A number of techniques have been proposed in the literature for…

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Local Fourier analysis is a commonly used tool for the analysis of multigrid and other multilevel algorithms, providing both insight into observed convergence rates and predictive analysis of the performance of many algorithms. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-06 Jed Brown , Yunhui He , Scott MacLachlan

We study the generalization behavior of Markov Logic Networks (MLNs) across relational structures of different sizes. Multiple works have noticed that MLNs learned on a given domain generalize poorly across domains of different sizes. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Florian Chen , Felix Weitkämper , Sagar Malhotra

One of the big challenges in the development of probabilistic relational (or probabilistic logical) modeling and learning frameworks is the design of inference techniques that operate on the level of the abstract model representation…

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