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Vector Symbolic Architecture (VSA) is emerging in machine learning due to its efficiency, but they are hindered by issues of hyperdimensionality and accuracy. As a promising mitigation, the Low-Dimensional Computing (LDC) method…

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Using Frequency-domain Holographic Reduced Representations (FHRRs), we extend a Vector-Symbolic Architecture (VSA) encoding of Lisp 1.5 with primitives for arithmetic operations using Residue Hyperdimensional Computing (RHC). Encoding a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Connor Hanley , Eilene Tomkins-Flanaganm , Mary Alexandria Kelly

Human cognition excels at symbolic reasoning, deducing abstract rules from limited samples. This has been explained using symbolic and connectionist approaches, inspiring the development of a neuro-symbolic architecture that combines both…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mohamed Mejri , Chandramouli Amarnath , Abhijit Chatterjee

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) have emerged as a novel framework for enabling interpretable machine learning algorithms equipped with the ability to reason and explain their decision processes. The basic idea is to represent discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Calvin Yeung , Prathyush Poduval , Mohsen Imani

Following up on a previous analysis of graph embeddings, we generalize and expand some results to the general setting of vector symbolic architectures (VSA) and hyperdimensional computing (HDC). Importantly, we explore the mathematical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-23 Frank Qiu

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) are one approach to developing Neuro-symbolic AI, where two vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$ are `bound' together to produce a new vector in the same space. VSAs support the commutativity and associativity of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Mohammad Mahmudul Alam , Alexander Oberle , Edward Raff , Stella Biderman , Tim Oates , James Holt

Vector symbolic architectures (VSAs) are a family of information representation techniques which enable composition, i.e., creating complex information structures from atomic vectors via binding and superposition, and have recently found…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zirui Deng , Netanel Raviv

Transformer-based language models display impressive reasoning-like behavior, yet remain brittle on tasks that require stable symbolic manipulation. This paper develops a unified perspective on these phenomena by interpreting self-attention…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Sahil Rajesh Dhayalkar

Connectionist approaches to machine learning, \emph{i.e.} neural networks, are enjoying a considerable vogue right now. However, these methods require large volumes of data and produce models that are uninterpretable to humans. An…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Nolan P Shaw , P Michael Furlong , Britt Anderson , Jeff Orchard

Classification of time series data is an important task for many application domains. One of the best existing methods for this task, in terms of accuracy and computation time, is MiniROCKET. In this work, we extend this approach to provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Kenny Schlegel , Peer Neubert , Peter Protzel

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an emerging computing paradigm with significant promise for efficient and robust learning. In HDC, objects are encoded with high-dimensional vector symbolic sequences called hypervectors. The quality of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Sercan Aygun , M. Hassan Najafi

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an emerging computing paradigm that imitates the brain's structure to offer a powerful and efficient processing and learning model. In HDC, the data are encoded with long vectors, called hypervectors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Sercan Aygun , Mehran Shoushtari Moghadam , M. Hassan Najafi , Mohsen Imani

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is a method to perform classification that uses binary vectors with high dimensions and the majority rule. This approach has the potential to be energy-efficient and hence deemed suitable for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Zhanglu Yan , Shida Wang , Kaiwen Tang , Weng-Fai Wong

Neither deep neural networks nor symbolic AI alone has approached the kind of intelligence expressed in humans. This is mainly because neural networks are not able to decompose joint representations to obtain distinct objects (the so-called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Michael Hersche , Mustafa Zeqiri , Luca Benini , Abu Sebastian , Abbas Rahimi

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is a brain-inspired paradigm valued for its noise robustness, parallelism, energy efficiency, and low computational overhead. Hardware accelerators are being explored to further enhance their performance,…

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Image-to-image translation has played an important role in enabling synthetic data for computer vision. However, if the source and target domains have a large semantic mismatch, existing techniques often suffer from source content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Justin Theiss , Jay Leverett , Daeil Kim , Aayush Prakash

Following the general theoretical framework of VSA (Vector Symbolic Architecture), a cognitive model with the use of sparse binary hypervectors is proposed. In addition, learning algorithms are introduced to bootstrap the model from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhonghao Yang

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an emerging computational framework that takes inspiration from attributes of neuronal circuits such as hyperdimensionality, fully distributed holographic representation, and (pseudo)randomness. When…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Geethan Karunaratne , Manuel Le Gallo , Giovanni Cherubini , Luca Benini , Abbas Rahimi , Abu Sebastian

The entorhinal-hippocampal formation is the mammalian brain's navigation system, encoding both physical and abstract spaces via grid cells. This system is well-studied in neuroscience, and its efficiency and versatility make it attractive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Sven Krausse , Emre Neftci , Friedrich T. Sommer , Alpha Renner

Despite their capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) remain opaque with limited understanding of their internal representations. Current interpretability methods either focus on input-oriented feature extraction, such as supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Marco Bronzini , Carlo Nicolini , Bruno Lepri , Jacopo Staiano , Andrea Passerini