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Neuro-symbolic learning generally consists of two separated worlds, i.e., neural network training and symbolic constraint solving, whose success hinges on symbol grounding, a fundamental problem in AI. This paper presents a novel, softened…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Zenan Li , Yuan Yao , Taolue Chen , Jingwei Xu , Chun Cao , Xiaoxing Ma , Jian Lü

Standpoint logic is a recently proposed formalism in the context of knowledge integration, which advocates a multi-perspective approach permitting reasoning with a selection of diverse and possibly conflicting standpoints rather than…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Tim S. Lyon , Lucía Gómez Álvarez

A main open question in contemporary AI research is quantifying the forms of reasoning neural networks can perform when perfectly trained. This paper answers this by interpreting reasoning tasks as circuit emulation, where the gates define…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Anastasis Kratsios , Dennis Zvigelsky , Bradd Hart

Neuro-Symbolic (NeSy) AI could be regarded as an analogy to human dual-process cognition, modeling the intuitive System 1 with neural networks and the algorithmic System 2 with symbolic reasoning. However, for complex learning targets, NeSy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Wen-Chao Hu , Wang-Zhou Dai , Yuan Jiang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Entity alignment (EA) aims to merge two knowledge graphs (KGs) by identifying equivalent entity pairs. Existing methods can be categorized into symbolic and neural models. Symbolic models, while precise, struggle with substructure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shengyuan Chen , Zheng Yuan , Qinggang Zhang , Wen Hua , Jiannong Cao , Xiao Huang

The field of neuro-symbolic AI aims to benefit from the combination of neural networks and symbolic systems. A cornerstone of the field is the translation or encoding of symbolic knowledge into neural networks. Although many neuro-symbolic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Simon Odense , Artur d'Avila Garcez

Compositional generalization is crucial for artificial intelligence agents to solve complex vision-language reasoning tasks. Neuro-symbolic approaches have demonstrated promise in capturing compositional structures, but they face critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Danial Kamali , Elham J. Barezi , Parisa Kordjamshidi

How can the semantic interpretation of a formal symbol system be made intrinsic to the system, rather than just parasitic on the meanings in our heads? How can the meanings of the meaningless symbol tokens, manipulated solely on the basis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Stevan Harnad

Neural symbolic processing aims to combine the generalization of logical learning approaches and the performance of neural networks. The Neural Theorem Proving (NTP) model by Rocktaschel et al (2017) learns embeddings for concepts and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Michiel de Jong , Fei Sha

Non-markovian Reinforcement Learning (RL) tasks are very hard to solve, because agents must consider the entire history of state-action pairs to act rationally in the environment. Most works use symbolic formalisms (as Linear Temporal Logic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Elena Umili , Francesco Argenziano , Roberto Capobianco

Visual reasoning is essential for building intelligent agents that understand the world and perform problem-solving beyond perception. Differentiable forward reasoning has been developed to integrate reasoning with gradient-based machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hikaru Shindo , Viktor Pfanschilling , Devendra Singh Dhami , Kristian Kersting

We propose a new interpretability method for neural networks, which is based on a novel mathematico-philosophical theory of reasons. Our method computes a vector for each neuron, called its reasons vector. We then can compute how strongly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Levin Hornischer , Hannes Leitgeb

Neural-symbolic approaches to machine learning incorporate the advantages from both connectionist and symbolic methods. Typically, these models employ a first module based on a neural architecture to extract features from complex data.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jaime de Miguel-Rodriguez , Fernando Sancho-Caparrini

Effective human-robot interaction, such as in robot learning from human demonstration, requires the learning agent to be able to ground abstract concepts (such as those contained within instructions) in a corresponding high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Yordan Hristov , Alex Lascarides , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Traditional symbolic reasoning engines, while attractive for their precision and explicability, have a few major drawbacks: the use of brittle inference procedures that rely on exact matching (unification) of logical terms, an inability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Aditya Kalyanpur , Tom Breloff , David Ferrucci

Real-world task planning requires long-horizon reasoning over large sets of objects with complex relationships and attributes, leading to a combinatorial explosion for classical symbolic planners. To prune the search space, recent methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qiwei Du , Bowen Li , Yi Du , Shaoshu Su , Taimeng Fu , Zitong Zhan , Zhipeng Zhao , Chen Wang

Intelligent coding systems are transforming software development by enabling users to specify code behavior in natural language. However, the opaque decision-making of AI-driven coders raises trust and usability concerns, particularly for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xiangzhe Xu , Shiwei Feng , Zian Su , Chengpeng Wang , Xiangyu Zhang

Compositionality is a pivotal property of symbolic reasoning. However, how well recent neural models capture compositionality remains underexplored in the symbolic reasoning tasks. This study empirically addresses this question by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Keito Kudo , Yoichi Aoki , Tatsuki Kuribayashi , Ana Brassard , Masashi Yoshikawa , Keisuke Sakaguchi , Kentaro Inui

Neural-symbolic computing aims at integrating robust neural learning and sound symbolic reasoning into a single framework, so as to leverage the complementary strengths of both of these, seemingly unrelated (maybe even contradictory) AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Xuan Wu , Xinhao Zhu , Yizheng Zhao , Xinyu Dai

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