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With the impressive progress of deep learning, applications relying on machine learning are increasingly being integrated into daily life. However, most deep learning models have an opaque, oracle-like nature making it difficult to…

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Neuro-symbolic methods integrate neural architectures, knowledge representation and reasoning. However, they have been struggling at both dealing with the intrinsic uncertainty of the observations and scaling to real-world applications.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Giuseppe Marra , Michelangelo Diligenti , Francesco Giannini

Machines that can replicate human intelligence with type 2 reasoning capabilities should be able to reason at multiple levels of spatio-temporal abstractions and scales using internal world models. Devising formalisms to develop such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Vaisakh Shaj

Despite successful seminal works on passive systems in the literature, learning free-form physical laws for controlled dynamical systems given experimental data is still an open problem. For decades, symbolic mathematical equations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Carlos Magno C. O. Valle , Sami Haddadin

This work introduces Physics-informed State-space neural network Models (PSMs), a novel solution to achieving real-time optimization, flexibility, and fault tolerance in autonomous systems, particularly in transport-dominated systems such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Akshay J. Dave , Richard B. Vilim

Neuro-symbolic learning was proposed to address challenges with training neural networks for complex reasoning tasks with the added benefits of interpretability, reliability, and efficiency. Neuro-symbolic learning methods traditionally…

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In the context of the energy transition, with increasing integration of renewable sources and cross-border electricity exchanges, power grids are encountering greater uncertainty and operational risk. Maintaining grid stability under…

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It is demonstrated that under the hypothesis of boundedness, the semantics appears as a property of spontaneous physical processes. It turns that both semantic structure and semantic meaning have their own physical agents each of which is…

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Computational context understanding refers to an agent's ability to fuse disparate sources of information for decision-making and is, therefore, generally regarded as a prerequisite for sophisticated machine reasoning capabilities, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Alessandro Oltramari , Jonathan Francis , Cory Henson , Kaixin Ma , Ruwan Wickramarachchi

A probabilistic structure on sequential dynamical systems is introduced here, the new model will be called Probabilistic Sequential Network, PSN. The morphisms of Probabilistic Sequential Networks are defined using two algebraic conditions.…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2008-04-30 Maria A. Avino-Diaz

The unification of neural and symbolic approaches to artificial intelligence remains a central open challenge. In this work, we introduce a tensor network formalism, which captures sparsity principles originating in the different approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Alex Goessmann , Janina Schütte , Maximilian Fröhlich , Martin Eigel

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

As far as algorithmic thinking is bound by symbolic paper-and-pencil operations, the Church-Turing thesis appears to hold. But is physics, and even more so, is the human mind, bound by symbolic paper-and-pencil operations? What about the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karl Svozil

Binary decision diagrams can compactly represent vast sets of states, mitigating the state space explosion problem in model checking. Probabilistic systems, however, require multi-terminal diagrams storing rational numbers. They are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Ernst Moritz Hahn , Arnd Hartmanns

The article provides the theoretical framework of Probabilistic Shoenfield Machines (PSMs), an extension of the classical Shoenfield Machine that models randomness in the computation process. PSMs are introduced in contexts where…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Maksymilian Bujok , Adam Mata

Arabshahi, Singh, and Anandkumar (2018) propose a method for creating a dataset of symbolic mathematical equations for the tasks of symbolic equation verification and equation completion. Unfortunately, a dataset constructed using the…

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Formal guarantees for cyber-physical systems (CPS) rely on diverse assumptions. If satisfied, these assumptions enable the transfer of abstract guarantees into real-world assurances about the deployed CPS. Although assumptions are central…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Chengyu Li , Saleh Faghfoorian , Ivan Ruchkin

While it is nearly effortless for humans to quickly assess the perceptual similarity between two images, the underlying processes are thought to be quite complex. Despite this, the most widely used perceptual metrics today, such as PSNR and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Richard Zhang , Phillip Isola , Alexei A. Efros , Eli Shechtman , Oliver Wang

The mysterious phenomenon of consciousness, after having been the subject of philosophic attention for few millennia, has drawn much scientific curiosity in recent decades; and many brilliant minds of various areas of sciences are trying to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-01 Jahan N. Schad

Potential heuristics for state-space search are defined as weighted sums over simple state features. Atomic features consider the value of a single state variable in a factored state representation, while binary features consider joint…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Florian Pommerening , Malte Helmert , Blai Bonet