English
Related papers

Related papers: Neuro-Symbolic Rule Lists

200 papers

Broadly intelligent agents should form task-specific abstractions that selectively expose the essential elements of a task, while abstracting away the complexity of the raw sensorimotor space. In this work, we present Neuro-Symbolic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yichao Liang , Nishanth Kumar , Hao Tang , Adrian Weller , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Tom Silver , João F. Henriques , Kevin Ellis

Many aspects of human reasoning, including language, require learning rules from very little data. Humans can do this, often learning systematic rules from very few examples, and combining these rules to form compositional rule-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Maxwell I. Nye , Armando Solar-Lezama , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Brenden M. Lake

As recommender systems become increasingly complex, transparency is essential to increase user trust, accountability, and regulatory compliance. Neuro-symbolic approaches that integrate symbolic reasoning with sub-symbolic learning offer a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Stephan Bartl , Kevin Innerebner , Elisabeth Lex

This paper proposes a new paradigm for learning a set of independent logical rules in disjunctive normal form as an interpretable model for classification. We consider the problem of learning an interpretable decision rule set as training a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Litao Qiao , Weijia Wang , Bill Lin

We present an algorithm, NN2Rules, to convert a trained neural network into a rule list. Rule lists are more interpretable since they align better with the way humans make decisions. NN2Rules is a decompositional approach to rule…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 G Roshan Lal , Varun Mithal

Representation is a core issue in artificial intelligence. Humans use discrete language to communicate and learn from each other, while machines use continuous features (like vector, matrix, or tensor in deep neural networks) to represent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Yuqi Wang , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Deep learning architectures based on convolutional neural networks tend to rely on continuous, smooth features. While this characteristics provides significant robustness and proves useful in many real-world tasks, it is strikingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zuzanna Buchnajzer , Kacper Dobek , Stanisław Hapke , Daniel Jankowski , Krzysztof Krawiec

We introduce Neuro-Symbolic Continual Learning, where a model has to solve a sequence of neuro-symbolic tasks, that is, it has to map sub-symbolic inputs to high-level concepts and compute predictions by reasoning consistently with prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Emanuele Marconato , Gianpaolo Bontempo , Elisa Ficarra , Simone Calderara , Andrea Passerini , Stefano Teso

Deep learning models such as CNNs have surpassed human performance in computer vision tasks such as image classification. However, despite their sophistication, these models lack interpretability which can lead to biased outcomes reflecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Parth Padalkar , Huaduo Wang , Gopal Gupta

Neuro-symbolic rule learning has attracted lots of attention as it offers better interpretability than pure neural models and scales better than symbolic rule learning. A recent approach named pix2rule proposes a neural Disjunctive Normal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Kexin Gu Baugh , Nuri Cingillioglu , Alessandra Russo

Neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence is a novel area of AI research which seeks to combine traditional rules-based AI approaches with modern deep learning techniques. Neuro-symbolic models have already demonstrated the capability to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zachary Susskind , Bryce Arden , Lizy K. John , Patrick Stockton , Eugene B. John

Imitation learning is a popular method for teaching robots new behaviors. However, most existing methods focus on teaching short, isolated skills rather than long, multi-step tasks. To bridge this gap, imitation learning algorithms must not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Leon Keller , Daniel Tanneberg , Jan Peters

In this paper we introduce a novel family of decision lists consisting of highly interpretable models which can be learned efficiently in a greedy manner. The defining property is that all rules are oriented in the same direction.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-12 Marc Goessling , Shan Kang

We introduce LearnAD, a neuro-symbolic method for predicting Alzheimer's disease from brain magnetic resonance imaging data, learning fully interpretable rules. LearnAD applies statistical models, Decision Trees, Random Forests, or GNNs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Thomas Andrews , Mark Law , Sara Ahmadi-Abhari , Alessandra Russo

Rule-based models offer interpretability but struggle with complex data, while deep neural networks excel in performance yet lack transparency. This work investigates a neuro-symbolic rule learning neural network named RL-Net that learns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sarah Seifi , Tobias Sukianto , Cecilia Carbonelli , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

Recent advances in machine learning have led to a surge in adoption of neural networks for various tasks, but lack of interpretability remains an issue for many others in which an understanding of the features influencing the prediction is…

Neuro-symbolic learning (NSL) models complex symbolic rule patterns into latent variable distributions by neural networks, which reduces rule search space and generates unseen rules to improve downstream task performance. Centralized NSL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Pengwei Xing , Songtao Lu , Han Yu

The neural networks have trained on incomplete sets that a doctor could collect. Trained neural networks have correctly classified all the presented instances. The number of intervals entered for encoding the quantitative variables is equal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vitaly Schetinin , Anatoly Brazhnikov

Motivated by the interpretability question in ML models as a crucial element for the successful deployment of AI systems, this paper focuses on rule extraction as a means for neural networks interpretability. Through a systematic literature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Sara El Mekkaoui , Loubna Benabbou , Abdelaziz Berrado

Recent work on recommender systems has considered external knowledge graphs as valuable sources of information, not only to produce better recommendations but also to provide explanations of why the recommended items were chosen. Pure…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yikun Xian , Zuohui Fu , Qiaoying Huang , S. Muthukrishnan , Yongfeng Zhang