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With the rise of AI systems in real-world applications comes the need for reliable and trustworthy AI. An essential aspect of this are explainable AI systems. However, there is no agreed standard on how explainable AI systems should be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Sascha Saralajew , Ammar Shaker , Zhao Xu , Kiril Gashteovski , Bhushan Kotnis , Wiem Ben Rim , Jürgen Quittek , Carolin Lawrence

Abstract visual reasoning (AVR) enables humans to quickly discover and generalize abstract rules to new scenarios. Designing intelligent systems with human-like AVR abilities has been a long-standing topic in the artificial intelligence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Fan Shi , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Abstraction is a well-known approach to simplify a complex problem by over-approximating it with a deliberate loss of information. It was not considered so far in Answer Set Programming (ASP), a convenient tool for problem solving. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Zeynep G. Saribatur , Thomas Eiter

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC-AGI) probes few-shot abstraction and rule induction on small visual grids, but progress is difficult to measure on static collections of hand-authored puzzles due to overfitting, dataset leakage,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jens Lehmann , Syeda Khushbakht , Nikoo Salehfard , Nur A Zarin Nishat , Dhananjay Bhandiwad , Andrei Aioanei , Sahar Vahdati

Inductive reasoning is a core problem-solving capacity: humans can identify underlying principles from a few examples, which robustly generalize to novel scenarios. Recent work evaluates large language models (LLMs) on inductive reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Ruocheng Wang , Eric Zelikman , Gabriel Poesia , Yewen Pu , Nick Haber , Noah D. Goodman

Humans are capable of abstracting away irrelevant details when studying problems. This is especially noticeable for problems over grid-cells, as humans are able to disregard certain parts of the grid and focus on the key elements important…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Thomas Eiter , Zeynep G. Saribatur , Peter Schüller

The pursuit of artificial general intelligence necessitates robust methods for evaluating the cognitive capabilities of models beyond narrow task performance. Here, we introduce a psychometric framework to assess the cognitive profiles of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Isaac Galatzer-Levy , Daniel McDuff , Xin Liu , Jed McGiffin

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

Large Language Models have shown tremendous performance on a large variety of natural language processing tasks, ranging from text comprehension to common sense reasoning. However, the mechanisms responsible for this success remain opaque,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Gaël Gendron , Qiming Bao , Michael Witbrock , Gillian Dobbie

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

While attention has been an increasingly popular component in deep neural networks to both interpret and boost the performance of models, little work has examined how attention progresses to accomplish a task and whether it is reasonable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Shi Chen , Ming Jiang , Jinhui Yang , Qi Zhao

Explainability remains a critical challenge in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly in high stakes domains such as healthcare, finance, and decision support, where users must understand and trust automated reasoning.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Rukshani Somarathna , Madhawa Perera , Tom Gedeon , Matt Adcock

Analogical reasoning derives information from known relations and generalizes this information to similar yet unfamiliar situations. One of the first generalized ways in which deep learning models were able to solve verbal analogies was…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Luca H. Thoms , Karel A. Veldkamp , Hannes Rosenbusch , Claire E. Stevenson

The abstract visual reasoning (AVR) domain presents a diverse suite of analogy-based tasks devoted to studying model generalization. Recent years have brought dynamic progress in the field, particularly in i.i.d. scenarios, in which models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Mikołaj Małkiński , Jacek Mańdziuk

While attention has been an increasingly popular component in deep neural networks to both interpret and boost performance of models, little work has examined how attention progresses to accomplish a task and whether it is reasonable. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Shi Chen , Ming Jiang , Jinhui Yang , Qi Zhao

Inspired by cognitive theories of creativity, this paper introduces a computational model (AIGenC) that lays down the necessary components to enable artificial agents to learn, use and generate transferable representations. Unlike machine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Corina Catarau-Cotutiu , Esther Mondragon , Eduardo Alonso

While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in formal theorem proving, current benchmarks fail to adequately measure library-grounded abstraction -- the ability to reason with high-level interfaces and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Rongge Xu , Hui Dai , Yiming Fu , Jiedong Jiang , Tianjiao Nie , Junkai Wang , Holiverse Yang , Zhi-Hao Zhang

Cognitive processes are realized across an extraordinary range of natural, artificial, and hybrid systems, yet there is no unified framework for comparing their forms, limits, and unrealized possibilities. Here, we propose a cognition space…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-21 Ricard Solé , Luis F Seoane , Jordi Pla-Mauri , Michael Timothy Bennett , Michael E. Hochberg , Michael Levin

As AI systems grow more capable, it becomes increasingly important that their decisions remain understandable and aligned with human expectations. A key challenge is the limited interpretability of deep models. Post-hoc methods like GradCAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Mahdi Alehdaghi , Rajarshi Bhattacharya , Pourya Shamsolmoali , Rafael M. O. Cruz , Maguelonne Heritier , Eric Granger

Learning abstractions directly from data is a core challenge in robotics. Humans naturally operate at an abstract level, reasoning over high-level subgoals while delegating execution to low-level motor skills -- an ability that enables…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Abhiroop Ajith , Constantinos Chamzas