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Visual understanding requires comprehending complex visual relations between objects within a scene. Here, we seek to characterize the computational demands for abstract visual reasoning. We do this by systematically assessing the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Mohit Vaishnav , Remi Cadene , Andrea Alamia , Drew Linsley , Rufin VanRullen , Thomas Serre

Learning rules plays a crucial role in deep learning, particularly in explainable artificial intelligence and enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models. While existing rule learning methods are primarily designed for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Kun Gao , Davide Soldà , Thomas Eiter , Katsumi Inoue

Neurosymbolic AI aims to integrate deep learning with symbolic AI. This integration has many promises, such as decreasing the amount of data required to train a neural network, improving the explainability and interpretability of answers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Emile van Krieken

In this article, we investigate vision-language models (VLM) as reasoners. The ability to form abstractions underlies mathematical reasoning, problem-solving, and other Math AI tasks. Several formalisms have been given to these underlying…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Denisa Roberts , Lucas Roberts

Neural-symbolic learning, an intersection of neural networks and symbolic reasoning, aims to blend neural networks' learning capabilities with symbolic AI's interpretability and reasoning. This paper introduces an approach designed to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Fadi Al Machot

Reasoning benchmarks such as the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) and ARC-AGI are widely used to assess progress in artificial intelligence and are often interpreted as probes of core, so-called ``fluid'' reasoning abilities. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Xinhe Wang , Jin Huang , Xingjian Zhang , Tianhao Wang , Jiaqi W. Ma

Psychologists recognize Raven's Progressive Matrices as a very effective test of general human intelligence. While many computational models have been developed by the AI community to investigate different forms of top-down, deliberative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Tianyu Hua , Maithilee Kunda

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

Humans recognize objects after observing only a few examples, a remarkable capability enabled by their inherent language understanding of the real-world environment. Developing verbalized and interpretable representation can significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Cheng-Fu Yang , Da Yin , Wenbo Hu , Heng Ji , Nanyun Peng , Bolei Zhou , Kai-Wei Chang

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) provides a compact laboratory for studying abstract reasoning, an ability central to human intelligence. Modern AI systems, including LLMs and ViTs, largely operate as sequence-of-behavior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhiguang Liu , Yi Shang

Humans excel at learning abstract patterns across different sequences, filtering out irrelevant details, and transferring these generalized concepts to new sequences. In contrast, many sequence learning models lack the ability to abstract,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shuchen Wu , Mirko Thalmann , Peter Dayan , Zeynep Akata , Eric Schulz

Human intelligence is characterized by a remarkable ability to infer abstract rules from experience and apply these rules to novel domains. As such, designing neural network algorithms with this capacity is an important step toward the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Ishan Sinha , Taylor W. Webb , Jonathan D. Cohen

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been applied to a wide range of reasoning tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they can reason robustly under distribution shifts. In this paper, we study covariate shifts in which the perceptual input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Weixin Chen , Antonio Vergari , Han Zhao

Intelligent agents must reason over both continuous dynamics and discrete representations to generate effective plans in complex environments. Previous studies have shown that symbolic abstractions can emerge from neural effect predictors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Fatih Dogangun , Burcu Kilic , Serdar Bahar , Emre Ugur

In this paper we present a neurosymbolic architecture for coupling language-guided visual reasoning with robot manipulation. A non-expert human user can prompt the robot using unconstrained natural language, providing a referring expression…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

For half a century, artificial intelligence research has attempted to reproduce the human qualities of abstraction and reasoning - creating computer systems that can learn new concepts from a minimal set of examples, in settings where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Mikel Bober-Irizar , Soumya Banerjee

Vector-symbolic architectures (VSAs) provide methods for computing which are highly flexible and carry unique advantages. Concepts in VSAs are represented by 'symbols,' long vectors of values which utilize properties of high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp Maxim Bazhenov

Recent advances in machine learning have led to a surge in adoption of neural networks for various tasks, but lack of interpretability remains an issue for many others in which an understanding of the features influencing the prediction is…

Predicting rare outcomes such as startup success is central to venture capital, demanding models that are both accurate and interpretable. We introduce Random Rule Forest (RRF), a lightweight ensemble method that uses a large language model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Ben Griffin , Diego Vidaurre , Ugur Koyluoglu , Joseph Ternasky , Fuat Alican , Yigit Ihlamur

Object-aware reasoning in vision-language tasks poses significant challenges for current models, particularly in handling unseen objects, reducing hallucinations, and capturing fine-grained relationships in complex visual scenes. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Antonio Carlos Rivera , Anthony Moore , Steven Robinson