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Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) are high-dimensional vector representations of objects (eg., words, image parts), relations (eg., sentence structures), and sequences for use with machine learning algorithms. They consist of a vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Stephen I. Gallant , T. Wendy Okaywe

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

Vector symbolic architectures (VSAs) are a family of information representation techniques which enable composition, i.e., creating complex information structures from atomic vectors via binding and superposition, and have recently found…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zirui Deng , Netanel Raviv

Symbolic reasoning and neural networks are often considered incompatible approaches. Connectionist models known as Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) can potentially bridge this gap. However, classical VSAs and neural networks are still…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-16 E. Paxon Frady , Denis Kleyko , Friedrich T. Sommer

Connectionist approaches to machine learning, \emph{i.e.} neural networks, are enjoying a considerable vogue right now. However, these methods require large volumes of data and produce models that are uninterpretable to humans. An…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Nolan P Shaw , P Michael Furlong , Britt Anderson , Jeff Orchard

Human cognition excels at symbolic reasoning, deducing abstract rules from limited samples. This has been explained using symbolic and connectionist approaches, inspiring the development of a neuro-symbolic architecture that combines both…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mohamed Mejri , Chandramouli Amarnath , Abhijit Chatterjee

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) have been widely deployed in various cognitive applications due to their simple and efficient operations. The widespread adoption of VSAs has, in turn, spurred the development of numerous hardware…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Shuting Du , Mohamed Ibrahim , Zishen Wan , Luqi Zheng , Boheng Zhao , Zhenkun Fan , Che-Kai Liu , Tushar Krishna , Arijit Raychowdhury , Haitong Li

Neither deep neural networks nor symbolic AI alone has approached the kind of intelligence expressed in humans. This is mainly because neural networks are not able to decompose joint representations to obtain distinct objects (the so-called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Michael Hersche , Mustafa Zeqiri , Luca Benini , Abu Sebastian , Abbas Rahimi

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) are a powerful framework for representing compositional reasoning. They lend themselves to neural-network implementations, allowing us to create neural networks that can perform cognitive functions, like…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jeff Orchard , Russell Jarvis

Vector Symbolic Architectures combine a high-dimensional vector space with a set of carefully designed operators in order to perform symbolic computations with large numerical vectors. Major goals are the exploitation of their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Kenny Schlegel , Peer Neubert , Peter Protzel

This article reviews recent progress in the development of the computing framework vector symbolic architectures (VSA) (also known as hyperdimensional computing). This framework is well suited for implementation in stochastic, emerging…

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is a biologically-inspired framework which represents symbols with high-dimensional vectors, and uses vector operations to manipulate them. The ensemble of a particular vector space and a prescribed set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Kenneth L. Clarkson , Shashanka Ubaru , Elizabeth Yang

Following the initial publication of hdlib, a Python library for designing Vector-Symbolic Architectures (VSA), we introduce a major extension that significantly enhances its machine learning capabilities. VSA, also known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Fabio Cumbo , Kabir Dhillon , Daniel Blankenberg

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC), also known as vector symbolic architectures (VSA), is a computing framework used within artificial intelligence and cognitive computing that operates with distributed vector representations of large fixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Dmitri A. Rachkovskij , Denis Kleyko

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) give a way to represent a complex object as a single fixed-length vector, so that similar objects have similar vector representations. These vector representations then become easy to use for machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Stephen I. Gallant

Vector Symbolic Architecture (VSA) is emerging in machine learning due to its efficiency, but they are hindered by issues of hyperdimensionality and accuracy. As a promising mitigation, the Low-Dimensional Computing (LDC) method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shijin Duan , Yejia Liu , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Rao Kompella , Shaolei Ren , Xiaolin Xu

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) tasks impose a strict logical constraint: a bag is labeled positive if and only if at least one instance within it is positive. While this iff constraint aligns with many real-world applications, recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Ehsan Ahmed Dhrubo , Mohammad Mahmudul Alam , Edward Raff , Tim Oates , James Holt

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) have emerged as a novel framework for enabling interpretable machine learning algorithms equipped with the ability to reason and explain their decision processes. The basic idea is to represent discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Calvin Yeung , Prathyush Poduval , Mohsen Imani

This is Part II of the two-part comprehensive survey devoted to a computing framework most commonly known under the names Hyperdimensional Computing and Vector Symbolic Architectures (HDC/VSA). Both names refer to a family of computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Denis Kleyko , Dmitri A. Rachkovskij , Evgeny Osipov , Abbas Rahimi

In abstract visual reasoning, monolithic deep learning models suffer from limited interpretability and generalization, while existing neuro-symbolic approaches fall short in capturing the diversity and systematicity of attributes and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Zhong-Hua Sun , Ru-Yuan Zhang , Zonglei Zhen , Da-Hui Wang , Yong-Jie Li , Xiaohong Wan , Hongzhi You
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