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We investigate practical algorithms for inconsistency-tolerant query answering over prioritized knowledge bases, which consist of a logical theory, a set of facts, and a priority relation between conflicting facts. We consider three…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Meghyn Bienvenu , Camille Bourgaux

The study of machine learning-based logical query answering enables reasoning with large-scale and incomplete knowledge graphs. This paper advances this area of research by addressing the uncertainty inherent in knowledge. While the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Weizhi Fei , Zihao Wang , Hang Yin , Yang Duan , Yangqiu Song

Interpretability is an elusive but highly sought-after characteristic of modern machine learning methods. Recent work has focused on interpretability via $\textit{explanations}$, which justify individual model predictions. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 David Alvarez-Melis , Hal Daumé , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan , Hanna Wallach

Despite demonstrating impressive capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) still often struggle to accurately express the factual knowledge they possess, especially in cases where the LLMs' knowledge boundaries are ambiguous. To improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Boyang Xue , Fei Mi , Qi Zhu , Hongru Wang , Rui Wang , Sheng Wang , Erxin Yu , Xuming Hu , Kam-Fai Wong

Multi-context systems provide a powerful framework for modelling information-aggregation systems featuring heterogeneous reasoning components. Their execution can, however, incur non-negligible cost. Here, we focus on cost-complexity of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-29 Peter Novák , Cees Witteveen

Understanding the uncertainty in large language model (LLM) explanations is important for evaluating their faithfulness and reasoning consistency, and thus provides insights into the reliability of LLM's output regarding a question. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Longchao Da , Xiaoou Liu , Jiaxin Dai , Lu Cheng , Yaqing Wang , Hua Wei

When answering natural language questions over knowledge bases, missing facts, incomplete schema and limited scope naturally lead to many questions being unanswerable. While answerability has been explored in other QA settings, it has not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Mayur Patidar , Prayushi Faldu , Avinash Singh , Lovekesh Vig , Indrajit Bhattacharya , Mausam

We show that context semantics can be fruitfully applied to the quantitative analysis of proof normalization in linear logic. In particular, context semantics lets us define the weight of a proof-net as a measure of its inherent complexity:…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Ugo Dal Lago

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KVQA) task aims to answer questions that require additional external knowledge as well as an understanding of images and questions. Recent studies on KVQA inject an external knowledge in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jinyeong Chae , Jihie Kim

The usefulness and usability of knowledge bases (KBs) is often limited by quality issues. One common issue is the presence of erroneous assertions, often caused by lexical or semantic confusion. We study the problem of correcting such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jiaoyan Chen , Xi Chen , Ian Horrocks , Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz , Erik B. Myklebus

Description Logic Knowledge and Action Bases (KABs) have been recently introduced as a mechanism that provides a semantically rich representation of the information on the domain of interest in terms of a DL KB and a set of actions to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-25 Diego Calvanese , Evgeny Kharlamov , Marco Montali , Ario Santoso , Dmitriy Zheleznyakov

Knowledge bases (KBs) are often incomplete and constantly changing in practice. Yet, in many question answering applications coupled with knowledge bases, the sparse nature of KBs is often overlooked. To this end, we propose a case-based…

In this paper we introduce the notion of Demand-Weighted Completeness, allowing estimation of the completeness of a knowledge base with respect to how it is used. Defining an entity by its classes, we employ usage data to predict the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Andrew Hopkinson , Amit Gurdasani , Dave Palfrey , Arpit Mittal

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive generation capabilities, but they suffer from hallucinations when solely relying on their internal knowledge, especially when answering questions that require less commonly known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Wenting Zhao , Ye Liu , Tong Niu , Yao Wan , Philip S. Yu , Shafiq Joty , Yingbo Zhou , Semih Yavuz

We introduce a weighted propositional configuration logic over a product valuation monoid. Our logic is intended to serve as a specification language for software architectures with quantitative features such as the average of all…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Vagia Karyoti , Paulina Paraponiari

Knowledge Graphs are pivotal for semantic data integration. The real-world data they model is often inherently uncertain. Within knowledge graphs, uncertainty manifests in three distinct levels: imprecise attribute values, probabilistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jingcheng Wu

We revisit evaluation of logical formulas that allow both uninterpreted relations, constrained to be finite, as well as an interpreted vocabulary over an infinite domain. This formalism was denoted embedded finite model theory in the past.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Michael Benedikt , Ehud Hrushovski

When quantitative models are used to support decision-making on complex and important topics, understanding a model's ``reasoning'' can increase trust in its predictions, expose hidden biases, or reduce vulnerability to adversarial attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Dimitris Bertsimas , Arthur Delarue , Patrick Jaillet , Sebastien Martin

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance in analyzing and generating text, yet they struggle with explicit, transparent, and verifiable reasoning over complex texts such as those containing debates. In particular, they lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Gianvincenzo Alfano , Sergio Greco , Lucio La Cava , Stefano Francesco Monea , Irina Trubitsyna

Recently, several approaches to updating knowledge bases modeled as extended logic programs have been introduced, ranging from basic methods to incorporate (sequences of) sets of rules into a logic program, to more elaborate methods which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 T. Eiter , M. Fink , G. Sabbatini , H. Tompits