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Language models exhibit fundamental limitations -- hallucination, brittleness, and lack of formal grounding -- that are particularly problematic in high-stakes specialist fields requiring verifiable reasoning. I investigate whether formal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Marcelo Labre

We present egglog, a fixpoint reasoning system that unifies Datalog and equality saturation (EqSat). Like Datalog, it supports efficient incremental execution, cooperating analyses, and lattice-based reasoning. Like EqSat, it supports term…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yihong Zhang , Yisu Remy Wang , Oliver Flatt , David Cao , Philip Zucker , Eli Rosenthal , Zachary Tatlock , Max Willsey

Datalog has become a popular language for writing static analyses. Because Datalog is very limited, some implementations of Datalog for static analysis have extended it with new language features. However, even with these features it is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Aaron Bembenek , Stephen Chong

PyLog is a minimal experimental proof assistant based on linearised natural deduction for intuitionistic and classical first-order logic extended with a comprehension operator. PyLog is interesting as a tool to be used in conjunction with…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Clarence Lewis Protin

Neurosymbolic AI (NeSy) aims to integrate the statistical strengths of neural networks with the interpretability and structure of symbolic reasoning. However, current NeSy frameworks like DeepProbLog enforce a fixed flow where symbolic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Adem Kikaj , Giuseppe Marra , Floris Geerts , Robin Manhaeve , Luc De Raedt

Logic programming is a powerful paradigm for programming autonomous agents in dynamic domains, as witnessed by languages such as Golog and Flux. In this work we present ALPprolog, an expressive, yet efficient, logic programming language for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-07-27 Conrad Drescher , Michael Thielscher

The goal of neuro-symbolic AI is to integrate symbolic and subsymbolic AI approaches, to overcome the limitations of either. Prominent systems include Logic Tensor Networks (LTN) or DeepProbLog, which offer neural predicates and end-to-end…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Stephen Roth , Lennart Baur , Derian Boer , Stefan Kramer

The problem of learning logical rules from examples arises in diverse fields, including program synthesis, logic programming, and machine learning. Existing approaches either involve solving computationally difficult combinatorial problems,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Xujie Si , Mukund Raghothaman , Kihong Heo , Mayur Naik

We present a framework where neural models develop an AI Mother Tongue, a native symbolic language that simultaneously supports intuitive reasoning, compositional symbol chains, and inherent interpretability. Unlike post-hoc explanation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Hung Ming Liu

Knowledge representation and reasoning in neural networks have been a long-standing endeavor which has attracted much attention recently. The principled integration of reasoning and learning in neural networks is a main objective of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Son Tran , Edjard Mota , Artur d'Avila Garcez

Our goal is a modern approach to answering questions via systematic reasoning where answers are supported by human interpretable proof trees grounded in an NL corpus of authoritative facts. Such a system would help alleviate the challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Nathaniel Weir , Peter Clark , Benjamin Van Durme

High-assurance reasoning, particularly in critical domains such as law and medicine, requires conclusions that are accurate, verifiable, and explicitly grounded in evidence. This reasoning relies on premises codified from rules, statutes,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Navapat Nananukul , Yue Zhang , Ryan Lee , Eric Boxer , Jonathan May , Vibhav Giridhar Gogate , Jay Pujara , Mayank Kejriwal

Evaluations of large language models (LLMs) primarily emphasize convergent logical reasoning, where success is defined by producing a single correct proof. However, many real-world reasoning problems admit multiple valid derivations,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yanrui Wu , Lingling Zhang , Xinyu Zhang , Jiayu Chang , Pengyu Li , Xu Jiang , Jingtao Hu , Jun Liu

The past few years have seen a surge of interest in the field of probabilistic logic learning and statistical relational learning. In this endeavor, many probabilistic logics have been developed. ProbLog is a recent probabilistic extension…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-03-04 Angelika Kimmig , Bart Demoen , Luc De Raedt , Vítor Santos Costa , Ricardo Rocha

A recommendation system assists users in finding items that are relevant to them. Existing recommendation models are primarily based on predicting relationships between users and items and use complex matching models or incorporate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Maonian Wu , Bang Chen , Shaojun Zhu , Bo Zheng , Wei Peng , Mingyi Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive progress in complex reasoning tasks, largely driven by the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) paradigm, which decomposes difficult problems into intermediate steps. However, CoT reasoning…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Rui Wang , Zeming Wei , Yihao Zhang , Xiaokun Luan

We introduce a neuro-symbolic natural logic framework based on reinforcement learning with introspective revision. The model samples and rewards specific reasoning paths through policy gradient, in which the introspective revision algorithm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Yufei Feng , Xiaoyu Yang , Xiaodan Zhu , Michael Greenspan

Progress in AI is hindered by the lack of a programming language with all the requisite features. Libraries like PyTorch and TensorFlow provide automatic differentiation and efficient GPU implementation, but are additions to Python, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Pedro Domingos

Neurosymbolic systems promise to combine deep neural network's (DNN) processing of raw sensor inputs with few-shot performance of symbolic artificial intelligence. Two-stage approaches explicitly decouple DNN based perception from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sparsh Tiwari , Bettina Finzel , Gesina Schwalbe

Neurosymbolic learning enables the integration of symbolic reasoning with deep learning but faces significant challenges in scaling to complex symbolic programs, large datasets, or both. We introduce DOLPHIN, a framework that tackles these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Aaditya Naik , Jason Liu , Claire Wang , Amish Sethi , Saikat Dutta , Mayur Naik , Eric Wong