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Humans can observe a single, imperfect demonstration and immediately generalize to very different problem settings. Robots, in contrast, often require hundreds of examples and still struggle to generalize beyond the training conditions. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Ben Zandonati , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Great endeavors have been made to study AI's ability in abstract reasoning, along with which different versions of RAVEN's progressive matrices (RPM) are proposed as benchmarks. Previous works give inkling that without sophisticated design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Qinglai Wei , Diancheng Chen , Beiming Yuan

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with precise reasoning for structured visuals like charts and diagrams, as pixel-based perception lacks a mechanism for verification. To address this, we propose to leverage derendering --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Junhong Shen , Mu Cai , Bo Hu , Ameet Talwalkar , David A Ross , Cordelia Schmid , Alireza Fathi

We introduce Plan*RAG, a novel framework that enables structured multi-hop reasoning in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) through test-time reasoning plan generation. While existing approaches such as ReAct maintain reasoning chains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Prakhar Verma , Sukruta Prakash Midigeshi , Gaurav Sinha , Arno Solin , Nagarajan Natarajan , Amit Sharma

Abstract reasoning refers to the ability to analyze information, discover rules at an intangible level, and solve problems in innovative ways. Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM) test is typically used to examine the capability of abstract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Sheng Hu , Yuqing Ma , Xianglong Liu , Yanlu Wei , Shihao Bai

Performing analytical tasks over graph data has become increasingly interesting due to the ubiquity and large availability of relational information. However, unlike images or sentences, there is no notion of sequence in networks. Nodes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Matheus Nunes , Gisele L. Pappa

We propose a novel neural architecture search algorithm via reinforcement learning by decoupling structure and operation search processes. Our approach samples candidate models from the multinomial distribution on the policy vectors defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Heung-Chang Lee , Do-Guk Kim , Bohyung Han

DreamCoder is an inductive program synthesis system that, whilst solving problems, learns to simplify search in an iterative wake-sleep procedure. The cost of search is amortized by training a neural search policy, reducing search breadth…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Alessandro B. Palmarini , Christopher G. Lucas , N. Siddharth

Recent advances in agentic frameworks have enabled AI agents to perform complex reasoning and decision-making. However, evidence comparing their reasoning performance, efficiency, and practical suitability remains limited. To address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zeeshan Rasheed , Abdul Malik Sami , Muhammad Waseem , Kai-Kristian Kemell , Mika Saari , Pekka Abrahamsson

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a purely declarative formalism developed in the field of logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning: computational problems are encoded by logic programs whose answer sets, corresponding to solutions, are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Francesco Calimeri , Simona Perri , Jessica Zangari

Humans excel at solving novel reasoning problems from minimal exposure, guided by inductive biases, assumptions about which entities and relationships matter. Yet the computational form of these biases and their neural implementation remain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-22 Quan Do , Caroline Ahn , Leah Bakst , Michael Pascale , Joseph T. McGuire , Chantal E. Stern , Michael E. Hasselmo

This paper presents a novel set of algorithms for heap abstraction, identifying logically related regions of the heap. The targeted regions include objects that are part of the same component structure (recursive data structure). The result…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-12-21 Mohamed A. El-Zawawy

Deep learning has made breakthroughs and substantial in many fields due to its powerful automatic representation capabilities. It has been proven that neural architecture design is crucial to the feature representation of data and the final…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Pengzhen Ren , Yun Xiao , Xiaojun Chang , Po-Yao Huang , Zhihui Li , Xiaojiang Chen , Xin Wang

Information retrieval has long focused on ranking documents by semantic relatedness. Yet many real-world information needs demand more: enforcement of logical constraints, multi-step inference, and synthesis of multiple pieces of evidence.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Mohanna Hoveyda , Panagiotis Efstratiadis , Arjen de Vries , Maarten de Rijke

A commonly used technique for managing AI complexity in real-time strategy (RTS) games is to use action and/or state abstractions. High-level abstractions can often lead to good strategic decision making, but tactical decision quality may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Nicolas A. Barriga , Marius Stanescu , Michael Buro

The traditional abstract domain framework for imperative programs suffers from several shortcomings; in particular it does not allow precise symbolic abstractions. To solve these problems, we propose a new abstract interpretation framework,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Matthieu Lemerre , Sébastien Bardin

Code generation, defined as automatically writing a piece of code to solve a given problem for which an evaluation function exists, is a classic hard AI problem. Its general form, writing code using a general language used by human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jacques Basaldúa

We introduce Agentic Reasoning, a framework that enhances large language model (LLM) reasoning by integrating external tool-using agents. Agentic Reasoning dynamically leverages web search, code execution, and structured memory to address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Junde Wu , Jiayuan Zhu , Yuyuan Liu , Min Xu , Yueming Jin

Inductive program synthesis, or programming by example, requires synthesizing functions from input-output examples that generalize to unseen inputs. While large language model agents have shown promise in programming tasks guided by natural…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Anjiang Wei , Tarun Suresh , Jiannan Cao , Naveen Kannan , Yuheng Wu , Kai Yan , Thiago S. F. X. Teixeira , Ke Wang , Alex Aiken

Assumption-based argumentation (ABA) is a central structured argumentation formalism. As shown recently, answer set programming (ASP) enables efficiently solving NP-hard reasoning tasks of ABA in practice, in particular in the commonly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Tuomo Lehtonen , Johannes P. Wallner , Matti Järvisalo