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A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to infer abstract rules from limited experience and apply these rules to unfamiliar situations. This capacity is widely studied in the visual domain using the Raven's Progressive Matrices.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Quan Do , Thomas M. Morin , Chantal E. Stern , Michael E. Hasselmo

We propose a hybrid architecture that integrates decision tree-based symbolic reasoning with the generative capabilities of large language models (LLMs) within a coordinated multi-agent framework. Unlike prior approaches that loosely couple…

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We introduce algebraic machine reasoning, a new reasoning framework that is well-suited for abstract reasoning. Effectively, algebraic machine reasoning reduces the difficult process of novel problem-solving to routine algebraic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Jingyi Xu , Tushar Vaidya , Yufei Wu , Saket Chandra , Zhangsheng Lai , Kai Fong Ernest Chong

Human visual reasoning is characterized by an ability to identify abstract patterns from only a small number of examples, and to systematically generalize those patterns to novel inputs. This capacity depends in large part on our ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Taylor W. Webb , Shanka Subhra Mondal , Jonathan D. Cohen

While achieving unmatched performance on many well-defined tasks, deep learning models have also been used to solve visual abstract reasoning tasks, which are relatively less well-defined, and have been widely used to measure human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Yuan Yang , Deepayan Sanyal , Joel Michelson , James Ainooson , Maithilee Kunda

Reasoning problems such as Sudoku and ARC-AGI remain challenging for neural networks. The structured problem solving architecture family of Recurrent Reasoning Models (RRMs), including Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) and Tiny Recursive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Richard Freinschlag , Timo Bertram , Erich Kobler , Andreas Mayr , Günter Klambauer

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

Current learning models often struggle with human-like systematic generalization, particularly in learning compositional rules from limited data and extrapolating them to novel combinations. We introduce the Neural-Symbolic Recursive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Qing Li , Yixin Zhu , Yitao Liang , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu , Siyuan Huang

For a long time the ability to solve abstract reasoning tasks was considered one of the hallmarks of human intelligence. Recent advances in application of deep learning (DL) methods led, as in many other domains, to surpassing human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Mikołaj Małkiński , Jacek Mańdziuk

Symbolic regression (SR) searches for analytical expressions representing the relationship between a set of explanatory and response variables. Current SR methods assume a single dataset extracted from a single experiment. Nevertheless,…

In this paper, we propose using deep neural architectures (i.e., vision transformers and ResNet) as heuristics for sequential decision-making in robotic manipulation problems. This formulation enables predicting the subset of objects that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Hongyou Zhou , Ingmar Schubert , Marc Toussaint , Ozgur S. Oguz

Mathematical reasoning recently has been shown as a hard challenge for neural systems. Abilities including expression translation, logical reasoning, and mathematics knowledge acquiring appear to be essential to overcome the challenge. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yangyang Hu , Yang Yu

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

Reinforcement learning (RL) as post-training is crucial for enhancing the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) in coding and math. However, their capacity for visual semantic arithmetic, inferring relationships from images,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Chuou Xu , Liya Ji , Qifeng Chen

Effectively retrieving, reasoning and understanding visually rich information remains a challenge for RAG methods. Traditional text-based methods cannot handle visual-related information. On the other hand, current vision-based RAG…

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Long Chain-of-Thought (LCoT), achieved by Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), has proven effective in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, reasoning in current LLMs is primarily…

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

Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM) is highly correlated with human intelligence, and it has been widely used to measure the abstract reasoning ability of humans. In this paper, to study the abstract reasoning capability of deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Tao Zhuo , Qiang Huang , Mohan Kankanhalli

Visual abstract reasoning tasks present challenges for deep neural networks, exposing limitations in their capabilities. In this work, we present a neural network model that addresses the challenges posed by Raven's Progressive Matrices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Kai Zhao , Chang Xu , Bailu Si

Abductive reasoning seeks the likeliest possible explanation for partial observations. Although abduction is frequently employed in human daily reasoning, it is rarely explored in computer vision literature. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Chen Liang , Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Yi Yang