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We propose a nonmonotonic Description Logic of typicality able to account for the phenomenon of concept combination of prototypical concepts. The proposed logic relies on the logic of typicality ALC TR, whose semantics is based on the…

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Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an increasingly popular computing paradigm with immense potential for future intelligent applications. Although the main ideas already took form in the 1990s, HDC recently gained significant attention,…

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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

This paper presents Non-Axiomatic Term Logic (NATL) as a theoretical computational framework of humanlike symbolic reasoning in artificial intelligence. NATL unites a discrete syntactic system inspired from Aristotle's term logic and a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Kotaro Funakoshi

This article presents a concept-centric paradigm for building agents that can learn continually and reason flexibly. The concept-centric agent utilizes a vocabulary of neuro-symbolic concepts. These concepts, such as object, relation, and…

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In this work, we introduce Contextual Analog Logic with Multimodality (CALM). CALM unites symbolic reasoning with neural generation, enabling systems to make context-sensitive decisions grounded in real-world multi-modal data. Background:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Maxwell J. Jacobson , Corey J. Maley , Yexiang Xue

This paper reviews literature in cognitive science, human-computer interaction (HCI) and natural-language processing (NLP) to consider how analogical reasoning (AR) could help inform the design of communication and learning technologies, as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Sara Kingsley

Analogical reasoning is a fundamental capacity of human cognition that allows us to reason abstractly about novel situations by relating them to past experiences. While it is thought to be essential for robust reasoning in AI systems,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xiaoyang Hu , Shane Storks , Richard L. Lewis , Joyce Chai

Ontologies formalise how the concepts from a given domain are interrelated. Despite their clear potential as a backbone for explainable AI, existing ontologies tend to be highly incomplete, which acts as a significant barrier to their more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Steven Schockaert , Yazmín Ibáñez-García , Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto

Robotic agents should be able to learn from sub-symbolic sensor data, and at the same time, be able to reason about objects and communicate with humans on a symbolic level. This raises the question of how to overcome the gap between…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires , Nitesh Kumar , Andreas Persson , Amy Loutfi , Luc De Raedt

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

Safety-critical applications require transparency in artificial intelligence (AI) components, but widely used convolutional neural networks (CNNs) widely used for perception tasks lack inherent interpretability. Hence, insights into what…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Georgii Mikriukov , Gesina Schwalbe , Christian Hellert , Korinna Bade

Analogical reasoning -- the capacity to identify and map structural relationships between different domains -- is fundamental to human cognition and learning. Recent studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) can sometimes match…

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Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) is a brain-inspired and light-weight machine learning method. It has received significant attention in the literature as a candidate to be applied in the wearable internet of things, near-sensor artificial…

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The vital role of analogical reasoning in human cognition allows us to grasp novel concepts by linking them with familiar ones through shared relational structures. Despite the attention previous research has given to word analogies, this…

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While neural symbolic methods demonstrate impressive performance in visual question answering on synthetic images, their performance suffers on real images. We identify that the long-tail distribution of visual concepts and unequal…

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Category theory can be used to state formulas in First-Order Logic without using set membership. Several notable results in logic such as proof of the continuum hypothesis can be elegantly rewritten in category theory. We propose in this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Chan Le Duc

Hyperbolic geometry has been successfully applied in modeling brain cortical and subcortical surfaces with general topological structures. However such approaches, similar to other surface based brain morphology analysis methods, usually…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 J. Zhang , Q. Dong , J. Shi , Q. Li , C. M. Stonnington , B. A. Gutman , K. Chen , E. M. Reiman , R. J. Caselli , P. M. Thompson , J. Ye , Y. Wang

Deep learning methods for time series have already reached excellent performances in both prediction and classification tasks, including anomaly detection. However, the complexity inherent in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) creates a challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Irene Ferfoglia , Gaia Saveri , Laura Nenzi , Luca Bortolussi

Concept-Based Models (CBMs) are a class of deep learning models that provide interpretability by explaining predictions through high-level concepts. These models first predict concepts and then use them to perform a downstream task.…

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