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Analogy-making is at the core of human and artificial intelligence and creativity with applications to such diverse tasks as proving mathematical theorems and building mathematical theories, common sense reasoning, learning, language…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Christian Antić

Analogical proportions are expressions of the form ``$a$ is to $b$ what $c$ is to $d$'' at the core of analogical reasoning which itself is at the core of human and artificial intelligence. The author has recently introduced {\em from first…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Christian Antić

Analogical proportions are expressions of the form ``$a$ is to $b$ what $c$ is to $d$'' at the core of analogical reasoning, which itself is at the core of artificial intelligence. This paper contributes to the mathematical foundations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Christian Antić

Analogical proportions compare pairs of items (a, b) and (c, d) in terms of their differences and similarities. They play a key role in the formalization of analogical inference. The paper first discusses how to improve analogical inference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Myriam Bounhas , Henri Prade , Gilles Richard

Analogical proportions are statements of the form "A is to B as C is to D". They constitute an inference tool that provides a logical framework to address learning, transfer, and explainability concerns and that finds useful applications in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Safa Alsaidi , Amandine Decker , Esteban Marquer , Pierre-Alexandre Murena , Miguel Couceiro

Analogical proportions are statements of the form "A is to B as C is to D" that are used for several reasoning and classification tasks in artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP). For instance, there are analogy based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Safa Alsaidi , Amandine Decker , Puthineath Lay , Esteban Marquer , Pierre-Alexandre Murena , Miguel Couceiro

Analogical proportions are statements of the form "$a$ is to $b$ as $c$ is to $d$", which expresses that the comparisons of the elements in pair $(a, b)$ and in pair $(c, d)$ yield similar results. Analogical proportions are creative in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Stergos Afantenos , Henri Prade , Leonardo Cortez Bernardes

Analogy is core to human cognition. It allows us to solve problems based on prior experience, it governs the way we conceptualize new information, and it even influences our visual perception. The importance of analogy to humans has made it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Maxwell Crouse , Constantine Nakos , Ibrahim Abdelaziz , Kenneth Forbus

Analogical proportions are statements expressed in the form "A is to B as C is to D" and are used for several reasoning and classification tasks in artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP). In this paper, we focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Safa Alsaidi , Amandine Decker , Puthineath Lay , Esteban Marquer , Pierre-Alexandre Murena , Miguel Couceiro

The author has recently introduced abstract algebraic frameworks of analogical proportions and similarity within the general setting of universal algebra. The purpose of this paper is to build a bridge from similarity to analogical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Christian Antić

Analogical reasoning is a powerful qualitative reasoning tool that enables humans to connect two situations, and to generalize their knowledge from familiar to novel situations. Cognitive Science research provides valuable insights into the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Thiloshon Nagarajah , Filip Ilievski , Jay Pujara

Principles of analogical reasoning have recently been applied in the context of machine learning, for example to develop new methods for classification and preference learning. In this paper, we argue that, while analogical reasoning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Eyke Hüllermeier

The purpose of this paper is to present a fresh idea on how symbolic learning might be realized via analogical reasoning. For this, we introduce directed analogical proportions between logic programs of the form "$P$ transforms into $Q$ as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Christian Antić

The author has recently introduced an abstract algebraic framework of analogical proportions within the general setting of universal algebra. The purpose of this paper is to lift that framework from universal algebra to the strictly more…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Christian Antić

It has been argued that analogy is the core of cognition. In AI research, algorithms for analogy are often limited by the need for hand-coded high-level representations as input. An alternative approach is to use high-level perception, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-25 Peter D. Turney

Analogical reasoning has been a principal focus of various waves of AI research. Analogy is particularly challenging for machines because it requires relational structures to be represented such that they can be flexibly applied across…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Felix Hill , Adam Santoro , David G. T. Barrett , Ari S. Morcos , Timothy Lillicrap

Analogical reasoning is an essential aspect of human cognition. In this paper, we summarize key theory about the processes underlying analogical reasoning from the cognitive science literature and relate it to current research in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Molly R Petersen , Claire E Stevenson , Lonneke van der Plas

Analogical reasoning is at the core of human cognition, serving as an important foundation for a variety of intellectual activities. While prior work has shown that LLMs can represent task patterns and surface-level concepts, it remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Taewhoo Lee , Minju Song , Chanwoong Yoon , Jungwoo Park , Jaewoo Kang

Analogy is a central faculty of human intelligence, enabling abstract patterns discovered in one domain to be applied to another. Despite its central role in cognition, the mechanisms by which Transformers acquire and implement analogical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Gouki Minegishi , Jingyuan Feng , Hiroki Furuta , Takeshi Kojima , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

Building on a specific formalization of analogical relationships of the form "A relates to B as C relates to D", we establish a connection between two important subfields of artificial intelligence, namely analogical reasoning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Mohsen Ahmadi Fahandar , Eyke Hüllermeier
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