English
Related papers

Related papers: The KANDY Benchmark: Incremental Neuro-Symbolic Le…

200 papers

Numerous neuro-symbolic approaches have recently been proposed typically with the goal of adding symbolic knowledge to the output layer of a neural network. Ideally, such losses maximize the probability that the neural network's predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Kareem Ahmed , Kai-Wei Chang , Guy Van den Broeck

Sequence classification is the supervised learning task of building models that predict class labels of unseen sequences of symbols. Although accuracy is paramount, in certain scenarios interpretability is a must. Unfortunately, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Severin Gsponer , Luca Costabello , Chan Le Van , Sumit Pai , Christophe Gueret , Georgiana Ifrim , Freddy Lecue

Many promising approaches to symbolic regression have been presented in recent years, yet progress in the field continues to suffer from a lack of uniform, robust, and transparent benchmarking standards. In this paper, we address this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-02 William La Cava , Patryk Orzechowski , Bogdan Burlacu , Fabrício Olivetti de França , Marco Virgolin , Ying Jin , Michael Kommenda , Jason H. Moore

Neural-symbolic methods have demonstrated efficiency in enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods mainly rely on syntactically mapping natural languages to complete formal languages like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yiming Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Pei Zhang , Baosong Yang , Rui Wang

Logic-based problems such as planning, theorem proving, or puzzles, typically involve combinatoric search and structured knowledge representation. Artificial neural networks are very successful statistical learners, however, for many years,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Gadi Pinkas , Shimon Cohen

Enabling neural networks to learn complex logical constraints and fulfill symbolic reasoning is a critical challenge. Bridging this gap often requires guiding the neural network's output distribution to move closer to the symbolic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Xuan Zhang , Zhijian Zhou , Weidi Xu , Yanting Miao , Chao Qu , Yuan Qi

Cognitive neuroscience is enjoying rapid increase in extensive public brain-imaging datasets. It opens the door to large-scale statistical models. Finding a unified perspective for all available data calls for scalable and automated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-16 Arthur Mensch , Julien Mairal , Danilo Bzdok , Bertrand Thirion , Gaël Varoquaux

By providing substantial amounts of data and standardized evaluation protocols, datasets in computer vision have helped fuel advances across all areas of visual recognition. But even in light of breakthrough results on recent benchmarks, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Brandon RichardWebster , Samuel E. Anthony , Walter J. Scheirer

Large language models (LLMs) and theorem provers (TPs) can be effectively combined for verifiable natural language inference (NLI). However, existing approaches rely on a fixed logical formalism, a feature that limits robustness and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Ali Farjami , Luca Redondi , Marco Valentino

A key objective in the field of artificial intelligence is to develop cognitive models that can exhibit human-like intellectual capabilities. One promising approach to achieving this is through neural-symbolic systems, which combine the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Dongran Yu , Xueyan Liu , Shirui Pan , Anchen Li , Bo Yang

Symbolic reasoning, rule-based symbol manipulation, is a hallmark of human intelligence. However, rule-based systems have had limited success competing with learning-based systems outside formalized domains such as automated theorem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Kaiyu Yang , Jia Deng

In this article, we introduce a neuro-symbolic approach that combines a low-level perception task performed by a neural network with a high-level reasoning task performed by a possibilistic rule-based system. The goal is to be able to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ismaïl Baaj , Pierre Marquis

The AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC), a new benchmark dataset for question answering (QA) has been recently released. ARC only contains natural science questions authored for human exams, which are hard to answer and require advanced logic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Yuyu Zhang , Hanjun Dai , Kamil Toraman , Le Song

The ``black-box'' nature of deep learning models presents a significant barrier to their adoption for scientific discovery, where interpretability is paramount. This challenge is especially pronounced in discovering the governing equations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Riccardo Cappi , Paolo Frazzetto , Nicolò Navarin , Alessandro Sperduti

As AI becomes part of everyday learning, many courses teach students to use it mainly as a productivity tool: how to prompt, search, summarize, write, code, and use tools more efficiently. We argue that AI education also needs a setting in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Haiyang Shen , Jiuzheng Wang , Taian Guo , Mugeng Liu , Wenchun Jing , Chongyang Pan , Siqi Zhong , Zhiyang Chen , Weichen Bi , Yudong Han , Xiaoying Bai , Yun Ma

We study the problem of combining neural networks with symbolic reasoning. Recently introduced frameworks for Probabilistic Neurosymbolic Learning (PNL), such as DeepProbLog, perform exponential-time exact inference, limiting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Emile van Krieken , Thiviyan Thanapalasingam , Jakub M. Tomczak , Frank van Harmelen , Annette ten Teije

Neuro-Symbolic (NeSy) integration combines symbolic reasoning with Neural Networks (NNs) for tasks requiring perception and reasoning. Most NeSy systems rely on continuous relaxation of logical knowledge, and no discrete decisions are made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Alessandro Daniele , Tommaso Campari , Sagar Malhotra , Luciano Serafini

Benchmarking has long served as a foundational practice in machine learning and, increasingly, in modern AI systems such as large language models, where shared tasks, metrics, and leaderboards offer a common basis for measuring progress and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Philip Waggoner

Symbolic discovery of governing equations is a long-standing goal in scientific machine learning, yet a fundamental trade-off persists between interpretability and scalable learning. Classical symbolic regression methods yield explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Salah A Faroughi , Farinaz Mostajeran , Amirhossein Arzani , Shirko Faroughi

Given the demand for responsible and trustworthy AI for education, this study evaluates symbolic, sub-symbolic, and neural-symbolic AI (NSAI) in terms of generalizability and interpretability. Our extensive experiments on balanced and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Danial Hooshyar , Eve Kikas , Yeongwook Yang , Gustav Šír , Raija Hämäläinen , Tommi Kärkkäinen , Roger Azevedo