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This two-part comprehensive survey is 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 models that use…

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

Image-to-image translation has played an important role in enabling synthetic data for computer vision. However, if the source and target domains have a large semantic mismatch, existing techniques often suffer from source content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Justin Theiss , Jay Leverett , Daeil Kim , Aayush Prakash

Image hash algorithms generate compact binary representations that can be quickly matched by Hamming distance, thus become an efficient solution for large-scale image retrieval. This paper proposes RV-SSDH, a deep image hash algorithm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Li Weng , Lingzhi Ye , Jiangmin Tian , Jiuwen Cao , Jianzhong Wang

Using Frequency-domain Holographic Reduced Representations (FHRRs), we extend a Vector-Symbolic Architecture (VSA) encoding of Lisp 1.5 with primitives for arithmetic operations using Residue Hyperdimensional Computing (RHC). Encoding a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Connor Hanley , Eilene Tomkins-Flanaganm , Mary Alexandria Kelly

Vector space models for symbolic processing that encode symbols by random vectors have been proposed in cognitive science and connectionist communities under the names Vector Symbolic Architecture (VSA), and, synonymously, Hyperdimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 E. Paxon Frady , Denis Kleyko , Christopher J. Kymn , Bruno A. Olshausen , Friedrich T. Sommer

Motivated by recent innovations in biologically-inspired neuromorphic hardware, this article presents a novel unsupervised machine learning algorithm named Hyperseed that draws on the principles of Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSA) for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Evgeny Osipov , Sachin Kahawala , Dilantha Haputhanthri , Thimal Kempitiya , Daswin De Silva , Damminda Alahakoon , Denis Kleyko

Following the general theoretical framework of VSA (Vector Symbolic Architecture), a cognitive model with the use of sparse binary hypervectors is proposed. In addition, learning algorithms are introduced to bootstrap the model from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhonghao Yang

Transformer-based language models display impressive reasoning-like behavior, yet remain brittle on tasks that require stable symbolic manipulation. This paper develops a unified perspective on these phenomena by interpreting self-attention…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Sahil Rajesh Dhayalkar

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC), also known as Vector-Symbolic Architectures (VSA), is a promising framework for the development of cognitive architectures and artificial intelligence systems, as well as for technical applications and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Dmitri A. Rachkovskij

While Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) are promising for modelling spatial cognition, their application is currently limited to artificially generated images and simple spatial queries. We propose VSA4VQA - a novel 4D implementation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Anna Penzkofer , Lei Shi , Andreas Bulling

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) provide a well-defined algebraic framework for compositional representations in hyperdimensional spaces. We introduce HyperSpace, an open-source framework that decomposes VSA systems into modular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shay Snyder , Andrew Capodieci , David Gorsich , Maryam Parsa

The entorhinal-hippocampal formation is the mammalian brain's navigation system, encoding both physical and abstract spaces via grid cells. This system is well-studied in neuroscience, and its efficiency and versatility make it attractive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Sven Krausse , Emre Neftci , Friedrich T. Sommer , Alpha Renner

Advancing safe autonomous systems through reinforcement learning (RL) requires robust benchmarks to evaluate performance, analyze methods, and assess agent competencies. Humans primarily rely on embodied visual perception to safely navigate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Tristan Tomilin , Meng Fang , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Despite their capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) remain opaque with limited understanding of their internal representations. Current interpretability methods either focus on input-oriented feature extraction, such as supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Marco Bronzini , Carlo Nicolini , Bruno Lepri , Jacopo Staiano , Andrea Passerini

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC), also referred to as vector symbolic architectures (VSA), represents information with high-dimensional vectors and a compact algebra of primitives. This paper establishes an explicitly unitary embedding from…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tyler L. Poore

The ability to encode and manipulate data structures with distributed neural representations could qualitatively enhance the capabilities of traditional neural networks by supporting rule-based symbolic reasoning, a central property of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 E. Paxon Frady , Spencer Kent , Bruno A. Olshausen , Friedrich T. Sommer

Deploying autonomous robots that can learn new skills from demonstrations is an important challenge of modern robotics. Existing solutions often apply end-to-end imitation learning with Vision-Language Action (VLA) models or symbolic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Maëlic Neau , Zoe Falomir , Paulo E. Santos , Anne-Gwenn Bosser , Cédric Buche

Recovering analytical solutions of physical fields from visual observations is a fundamental yet underexplored capability for AI-assisted scientific reasoning. We study visual-to-symbolic analytical solution inference (ViSA) for…

Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR) are a method for performing symbolic AI on top of real-valued vectors by associating each vector with an abstract concept, and providing mathematical operations to manipulate vectors as if they were…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ashwinkumar Ganesan , Hang Gao , Sunil Gandhi , Edward Raff , Tim Oates , James Holt , Mark McLean

This study investigates the use of symbolic computation in Matrix Structural Analysis (MSA) for continuous beams, leveraging the MATLAB Symbolic Math Toolbox. By employing symbolic MSA, analytical expressions for displacements, support…

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