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Neuro-Symbolic (NeSy) predictors that conform to symbolic knowledge - encoding, e.g., safety constraints - can be affected by Reasoning Shortcuts (RSs): They learn concepts consistent with the symbolic knowledge by exploiting unintended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Emanuele Marconato , Samuele Bortolotti , Emile van Krieken , Antonio Vergari , Andrea Passerini , Stefano Teso

Neuro-symbolic predictors learn a mapping from sub-symbolic inputs to higher-level concepts and then carry out (probabilistic) logical inference on this intermediate representation. This setup offers clear advantages in terms of consistency…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Emanuele Marconato , Stefano Teso , Andrea Passerini

Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI aims to develop deep neural networks whose predictions comply with prior knowledge encoding, e.g. safety or structural constraints. As such, it represents one of the most promising avenues for reliable and…

The ubiquitous independence assumption among symbolic concepts in neurosymbolic (NeSy) predictors is a convenient simplification: NeSy predictors use it to speed up probabilistic reasoning. Recent works like van Krieken et al. (2024) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Emile van Krieken , Pasquale Minervini , Edoardo Ponti , Antonio Vergari

Neurosymbolic (NeSy) frameworks combine neural representations and learning with symbolic representations and reasoning. Combining the reasoning capacities, explainability, and interpretability of symbolic processing with the flexibility…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sania Sinha , Tanawan Premsri , Danial Kamali , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Advocates for Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence (NeSy) assert that combining deep learning with symbolic reasoning will lead to stronger AI than either paradigm on its own. As successful as deep learning has been, it is generally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Kyle Hamilton , Aparna Nayak , Bojan Božić , Luca Longo

Neuro-symbolic systems (NeSy), which claim to combine the best of both learning and reasoning capabilities of artificial intelligence, are missing a core property of reasoning systems: Declarativeness. The lack of declarativeness is caused…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Tilman Hinnerichs , Robin Manhaeve , Giuseppe Marra , Sebastijan Dumancic

Neurosymbolic (NeSy) predictors combine neural perception with symbolic reasoning to solve tasks like visual reasoning. However, standard NeSy predictors assume conditional independence between the symbols they extract, thus limiting their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Emile van Krieken , Pasquale Minervini , Edoardo Ponti , Antonio Vergari

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

Neural-symbolic computing (NeSy), which pursues the integration of the symbolic and statistical paradigms of cognition, has been an active research area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for many years. As NeSy shows promise of reconciling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang , Fei Wu

The integration of symbolic computing with neural networks has intrigued researchers since the first theorizations of Artificial intelligence (AI). The ability of Neuro-Symbolic (NeSy) methods to infer or exploit behavioral schema has been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Giovanni Pio Delvecchio , Lorenzo Molfetta , Gianluca Moro

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong general-purpose reasoning capabilities, yet they frequently hallucinate when used as world models (WMs), where strict compliance with deterministic transition rules--particularly in corner…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hongyu Zhao , Siyu Zhou , Haolin Yang , Zengyi Qin , Tianyi Zhou

Neural-Symbolic (NeSy) Artificial Intelligence has emerged as a promising approach for combining the learning capabilities of neural networks with the interpretable reasoning of symbolic systems. However, existing NeSy frameworks typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Marios Thoma , Vassilis Vassiliades , Loizos Michael

Deep Learning models are a standard solution for sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR), but their deployment is often limited by labeled data scarcity and models' opacity. Neuro-Symbolic AI (NeSy) provides an interesting research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Luca Arrotta , Gabriele Civitarese , Claudio Bettini

A large class of Neural-Symbolic (NeSy) methods employs a machine learner to process the input entities, while relying on a reasoner based on First-Order Logic to represent and process more complex relationships among the entities. A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Rodrigo Castellano Ontiveros , Francesco Giannini , Marco Gori , Giuseppe Marra , Michelangelo Diligenti

Neurosymbolic (NeSy) AI has emerged as a promising direction to integrate neural and symbolic reasoning. Unfortunately, little effort has been given to developing NeSy systems tailored to sequential/temporal problems. We identify symbolic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Nikolaos Manginas , George Paliouras , Luc De Raedt

Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence (NeSy AI) has emerged as a promising direction for integrating neural learning with symbolic reasoning. Typically, in the probabilistic variant of such systems, a neural network first extracts a set of…

Neurosymbolic AI is growing in popularity thanks to its ability to combine neural perception and symbolic reasoning in end-to-end trainable models. However, recent findings reveal these are prone to shortcut reasoning, i.e., to learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Luca Andolfi , Eleonora Giunchiglia

In this paper, we introduce Neural Probabilistic Soft Logic (NeuPSL), a novel neuro-symbolic (NeSy) framework that unites state-of-the-art symbolic reasoning with the low-level perception of deep neural networks. To model the boundary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Connor Pryor , Charles Dickens , Eriq Augustine , Alon Albalak , William Wang , Lise Getoor

Sequential problems are ubiquitous in AI, such as in reinforcement learning or natural language processing. State-of-the-art deep sequential models, like transformers, excel in these settings but fail to guarantee the satisfaction of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Lennert De Smet , Gabriele Venturato , Luc De Raedt , Giuseppe Marra
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