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The goal of neuro-symbolic AI is to integrate symbolic and subsymbolic AI approaches, to overcome the limitations of either. Prominent systems include Logic Tensor Networks (LTN) or DeepProbLog, which offer neural predicates and end-to-end…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Stephen Roth , Lennart Baur , Derian Boer , Stefan Kramer

Large language models (LLMs) are probabilistic in nature and perform more reliably when augmented with external information. As complex queries often require multi-step reasoning over the retrieved information, with no clear or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Roxana Petcu , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting enables complex reasoning in large language models (LLMs), including applications in information retrieval (IR). However, it often leads to overthinking, where models produce excessively long and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Dohyeon Lee , Yeonseok Jeong , Seung-won Hwang

Bridging continuous perceptual signals and discrete symbolic reasoning is a fundamental challenge in AI systems that must operate under uncertainty. We present a neuro-symbolic framework that explicitly models and propagates uncertainty…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jiahao Wu , Shengwen Yu

Formulating efficient SQL queries requires several cycles of tuning and execution, particularly for inexperienced users. We examine methods that can accelerate and improve this interaction by providing insights about SQL queries prior to…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Zainab Zolaktaf , Mostafa Milani , Rachel Pottinger

Knowledge graph reasoning is pivotal in various domains such as data mining, artificial intelligence, the Web, and social sciences. These knowledge graphs function as comprehensive repositories of human knowledge, facilitating the inference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Lihui Liu , Zihao Wang , Hanghang Tong

Generating structural query language (SQL) queries from natural language is a long-standing open problem. Answering a natural language question about a database table requires modeling complex interactions between the columns of the table…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Tong Guo , Huilin Gao

We present a method of automatically synthesizing steps to solve search problems. Given a specification of a search problem, our approach uses symbolic execution to analyze the specification in order to extract a set of constraints which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Mara Downing , Abtin Molavi , Lucas Bang

This article introduces a new symbolic regression algorithm based on the SPINEX (Similarity-based Predictions with Explainable Neighbors Exploration) family. This new algorithm (SPINEX_SymbolicRegression) adopts a similarity-based approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 MZ Naser , Ahmed Z Naser

Building neural networks to query a knowledge base (a table) with natural language is an emerging research topic in deep learning. An executor for table querying typically requires multiple steps of execution because queries may have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Lili Mou , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Zhi Jin

The database community lacks a unified relational query language for subset selection and optimisation queries, limiting both user expression and query optimiser reasoning about such problems. Decades of research (latterly under the rubric…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-09 David Robert Pratten , Luke Mathieson , Fahimeh Ramezani

Structured Query Language (SQL) has remained the standard query language for databases. SQL is highly optimized for processing structured data laid out in relations. Meanwhile, in the present application development landscape, it is highly…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Udesh Kumarasinghe , Tyler Liu , Ahmed R. Mahmood , Chunwei Liu , Walid G. Aref

We consider the problem of finding equivalent minimal-size reformulations of SQL queries in presence of embedded dependencies [1]. Our focus is on select-project-join (SPJ) queries with equality comparisons, also known as safe conjunctive…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-06-27 Rada Chirkova , Michael Genesereth

As increasingly complex AI systems are introduced into our daily lives, it becomes important for such systems to be capable of explaining the rationale for their decisions and allowing users to contest these decisions. A significant hurdle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Sarath Sreedharan , Utkarsh Soni , Mudit Verma , Siddharth Srivastava , Subbarao Kambhampati

A core challenge for both physics and artificial intellicence (AI) is symbolic regression: finding a symbolic expression that matches data from an unknown function. Although this problem is likely to be NP-hard in principle, functions of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Silviu-Marian Udrescu , Max Tegmark

Indexing of static and dynamic sets is fundamental to a large set of applications such as information retrieval and caching. Denoting the characteristic vector of the set by B, we consider the problem of encoding sets and multisets to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Ran Ben Basat , Seungbum Jo , Srinivasa Rao Satti , Shubham Ugare

According to the principle of polyrepresentation, retrieval accuracy may improve through the combination of multiple and diverse information object representations about e.g. the context of the user, the information sought, or the retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Christina Lioma , Birger Larsen , Peter Ingwersen

Deep learning is bringing remarkable contributions to the field of argumentation mining, but the existing approaches still need to fill the gap toward performing advanced reasoning tasks. In this position paper, we posit that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Andrea Galassi , Kristian Kersting , Marco Lippi , Xiaoting Shao , Paolo Torroni

We present an SMT-based symbolic model checking algorithm for safety verification of recursive programs. The algorithm is modular and analyzes procedures individually. Unlike other SMT-based approaches, it maintains both "over-" and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Anvesh Komuravelli , Arie Gurfinkel , Sagar Chaki

Similarly to other connectionist models, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) lack transparency in their decision-making. A number of sub-symbolic approaches have been developed to provide insights into the GNN decision making process. These are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Anna Himmelhuber , Stephan Grimm , Sonja Zillner , Mitchell Joblin , Martin Ringsquandl , Thomas Runkler