English
Related papers

Related papers: A Neuro-vector-symbolic Architecture for Solving R…

200 papers

As AI systems migrate to safety-critical domains, verifying that their actions comply with well-defined rules remains a challenge. Formal methods provide provable guarantees but demand hand-crafted temporal-logic specifications, offering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yunhao Yang , Neel P. Bhatt , Pranay Samineni , Rohan Siva , Zhanyang Wang , Ufuk Topcu

Neurosymbolic programs combine deep learning with symbolic reasoning to achieve better data efficiency, interpretability, and generalizability compared to standalone deep learning approaches. However, existing neurosymbolic learning…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Paul Biberstein , Ziyang Li , Joseph Devietti , Mayur Naik

We present a neuro-symbolic visual question answering (VQA) pipeline for CLEVR, which is a well-known dataset that consists of pictures showing scenes with objects and questions related to them. Our pipeline covers (i) training neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Thomas Eiter , Nelson Higuera , Johannes Oetsch , Michael Pritz

The goal of neural-symbolic computation is to integrate the connectionist and symbolist paradigms. Prior methods learn the neural-symbolic models using reinforcement learning (RL) approaches, which ignore the error propagation in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-29 Qing Li , Siyuan Huang , Yining Hong , Yixin Chen , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu

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

We introduce a new neural architecture for solving visual abstract reasoning tasks inspired by human cognition, specifically by observations that human abstract reasoning often interleaves perceptual and conceptual processing as part of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Yuan Yang , Deepayan Sanyal , James Ainooson , Joel Michelson , Effat Farhana , Maithilee Kunda

Neurosymbolic AI combines the interpretability, parsimony, and explicit reasoning of classical symbolic approaches with the statistical learning of data-driven neural approaches. Models and policies that are simultaneously differentiable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Peter Graf , Patrick Emami

Graph classification is a fundamental task in domains ranging from molecular property prediction to materials design. While graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance by learning expressive representations via message passing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Hamed Poursiami , Shay Snyder , Guojing Cong , Thomas Potok , Maryam Parsa

Bridging continuous perceptual signals and discrete symbolic reasoning is a fundamental challenge in AI systems that must operate under uncertainty. We present a neuro-symbolic framework that explicitly models and propagates uncertainty…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jiahao Wu , Shengwen Yu

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

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging problem that requires to process multimodal input. Answer-Set Programming (ASP) has shown great potential in this regard to add interpretability and explainability to modular VQA…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jakob Johannes Bauer , Thomas Eiter , Nelson Higuera Ruiz , Johannes Oetsch

Symbolic regression is a powerful technique that can discover analytical equations that describe data, which can lead to explainable models and generalizability outside of the training data set. In contrast, neural networks have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Samuel Kim , Peter Y. Lu , Srijon Mukherjee , Michael Gilbert , Li Jing , Vladimir Čeperić , Marin Soljačić

Discovering the underlying mathematical expressions describing a dataset is a core challenge for artificial intelligence. This is the problem of $\textit{symbolic regression}$. Despite recent advances in training neural networks to solve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Brenden K. Petersen , Mikel Landajuela , T. Nathan Mundhenk , Claudio P. Santiago , Soo K. Kim , Joanne T. Kim

Neural-symbolic computing has now become the subject of interest of both academic and industry research laboratories. Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have been widely used in relational and symbolic domains, with widespread application of GNNs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Luis C. Lamb , Artur Garcez , Marco Gori , Marcelo Prates , Pedro Avelar , Moshe Vardi

Despite rapid progress, current deep learning methods face a number of critical challenges. These include high energy consumption, catastrophic forgetting, dependance on global losses, and an inability to reason symbolically. By combining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp , Maxim Bazhenov

We introduce algebraic machine reasoning, a new reasoning framework that is well-suited for abstract reasoning. Effectively, algebraic machine reasoning reduces the difficult process of novel problem-solving to routine algebraic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Jingyi Xu , Tushar Vaidya , Yufei Wu , Saket Chandra , Zhangsheng Lai , Kai Fong Ernest Chong

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

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

We model human and animal learning by computing with high-dimensional vectors (H = 10,000 for example). The architecture resembles traditional (von Neumann) computing with numbers, but the instructions refer to vectors and operate on them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Pentti Kanerva

Neuro-Symbolic AI (NeSy) holds promise to ensure the safe deployment of AI systems, as interpretable symbolic techniques provide formal behaviour guarantees. The challenge is how to effectively integrate neural and symbolic computation, to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Daniel Cunnington , Mark Law , Jorge Lobo , Alessandra Russo