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Knowledge bases often consist of facts which are harvested from a variety of sources, many of which are noisy and some of which conflict, resulting in a level of uncertainty for each triple. Knowledge bases are also often incomplete,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xuelu Chen , Michael Boratko , Muhao Chen , Shib Sankar Dasgupta , Xiang Lorraine Li , Andrew McCallum

Probabilistic logical models are a core component of neurosymbolic AI and are important in their own right for tasks that require high explainability. Unlike neural networks, logical theories that underlie the model are often handcrafted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jonathan Feldstein , Dominic Phillips , Efthymia Tsamoura

Recent interest in Knowledge Base Completion (KBC) has led to a plethora of approaches based on reinforcement learning, inductive logic programming and graph embeddings. In particular, rule-based KBC has led to interpretable rules while…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Prithviraj Sen , Breno W. S. R. Carvalho , Ibrahim Abdelaziz , Pavan Kapanipathi , Francois Luus , Salim Roukos , Alexander Gray

Knowledge graph (KG) reasoning is a task that aims to predict unknown facts based on known factual samples. Reasoning methods can be divided into two categories: rule-based methods and KG-embedding based methods. The former possesses…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Fengsong Sun , Jinyu Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Xianchao Zhang

Reasoning is essential for the development of large knowledge graphs, especially for completion, which aims to infer new triples based on existing ones. Both rules and embeddings can be used for knowledge graph reasoning and they have their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Wen Zhang , Bibek Paudel , Liang Wang , Jiaoyan Chen , Hai Zhu , Wei Zhang , Abraham Bernstein , Huajun Chen

Neural networks have proven to be effective at solving machine learning tasks but it is unclear whether they learn any relevant causal relationships, while their black-box nature makes it difficult for modellers to understand and debug…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Fabrizio Russo , Francesca Toni

Epistemic graphs are a generalization of the epistemic approach to probabilistic argumentation. Hunter proposed a 2-way generalization framework to learn epistemic constraints from crowd-sourcing data. However, the learnt epistemic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Xiao Chi

One challenge in fact checking is the ability to improve the transparency of the decision. We present a fact checking method that uses reference information in knowledge graphs (KGs) to assess claims and explain its decisions. KGs contain a…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Naser Ahmadi , Joohyung Lee , Paolo Papotti , Mohammed Saeed

In this technical report, we investigate the predictive performance differences of a rule-based approach and the GNN architectures NBFNet and A*Net with respect to knowledge graph completion. For the two most common benchmarks, we find that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Patrick Betz , Nathanael Stelzner , Christian Meilicke , Heiner Stuckenschmidt , Christian Bartelt

Knowledge graph (KG) reasoning is an important problem for knowledge graphs. In this paper, we propose a novel and principled framework called \textbf{RulE} (stands for {Rul}e {E}mbedding) to effectively leverage logical rules to enhance KG…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xiaojuan Tang , Song-Chun Zhu , Yitao Liang , Muhan Zhang

We consider the problem of learning causal networks with interventions, when each intervention is limited in size under Pearl's Structural Equation Model with independent errors (SEM-IE). The objective is to minimize the number of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Murat Kocaoglu , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sriram Vishwanath

RRULES is presented as an improvement and optimization over RULES, a simple inductive learning algorithm for extracting IF-THEN rules from a set of training examples. RRULES optimizes the algorithm by implementing a more effective mechanism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Rafel Palliser-Sans

We address the task of temporal knowledge graph (TKG) forecasting by introducing a fully explainable method based on temporal rules. Motivated by recent work proposing a strong baseline using recurrent facts, our approach learns four simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Julia Gastinger , Christian Meilicke , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

Tackling the problem of learning probabilistic classifiers from incomplete data in the context of Knowledge Graphs expressed in Description Logics, we describe an inductive approach based on learning simple belief networks. Specifically, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Christian Riefolo , Nicola Fanizzi , Claudia d'Amato

In domains where transparency and trustworthiness are crucial, such as healthcare, rule-based systems are widely used and often preferred over black-box models for decision support systems due to their inherent interpretability. However, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Christel Sirocchi , Damiano Verda

Multi-hop reasoning approaches over knowledge graphs infer a missing relationship between entities with a multi-hop rule, which corresponds to a chain of relationships. We extend existing works to consider a generalized form of multi-hop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Lu Zhang , Mo Yu , Tian Gao , Yue Yu

Knowledge graph embedding models have gained significant attention in AI research. Recent works have shown that the inclusion of background knowledge, such as logical rules, can improve the performance of embeddings in downstream machine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Mojtaba Nayyeri , Chengjin Xu , Jens Lehmann , Hamed Shariat Yazdi

High-quality and high-coverage rule sets are imperative to the success of Neuro-Symbolic Knowledge Graph Completion (NS-KGC) models, because they form the basis of all symbolic inferences. Recent literature builds neural models for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Ananjan Nandi , Navdeep Kaur , Parag Singla , Mausam

Today, as increasingly complex predictive models are developed, simple rule sets remain a crucial tool to obtain interpretable predictions and drive high-stakes decision making. However, a single rule set provides a partial representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Martino Ciaperoni , Han Xiao , Aristides Gionis

Knowledge graphs (KGs) often contain sufficient information to support the inference of new facts. Identifying logical rules not only improves the completeness of a knowledge graph but also enables the detection of potential errors, reveals…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Nasim Shirvani-Mahdavi , Devin Wingfield , Amin Ghasemi , Chengkai Li