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This work presents a novel systematic methodology to analyse the capabilities and limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) with feedback from a formal inference engine, on logic theory induction. The analysis is complexity-graded w.r.t.…

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With the rise of knowledge management and knowledge economy, the knowledge elements that directly link and embody the knowledge system have become the research focus and hotspot in certain areas. The existing knowledge element…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Bin Wen , Jianhou Gan , Juan L. G. Guirao , Wei Gao

One approach to explaining the hierarchical levels of understanding within a machine learning model is the symbolic method of inductive logic programming (ILP), which is data efficient and capable of learning first-order logic rules that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Andreas Bueff , Vaishak Belle

The capability of making interpretable and self-explanatory decisions is essential for developing responsible machine learning systems. In this work, we study the learning to explain problem in the scope of inductive logic programming…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Yuan Yang , Le Song

Despite recent advances in modern machine learning algorithms, the opaqueness of their underlying mechanisms continues to be an obstacle in adoption. To instill confidence and trust in artificial intelligence systems, Explainable Artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Zheng Zhang , Liangliang Xu , Levent Yilmaz , Bo Liu

Understanding emerging behaviors of reinforcement learning (RL) agents may be difficult since such agents are often trained in complex environments using highly complex decision making procedures. This has given rise to a variety of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Mira Finkelstein , Lucy Liu , Nitsan Levy Schlot , Yoav Kolumbus , David C. Parkes , Jeffrey S. Rosenshein , Sarah Keren

While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various natural language processing tasks by acquiring rich factual knowledge from their broad training data, their ability to synthesize and logically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Tianshi Zheng , Jiaxin Bai , Yicheng Wang , Tianqing Fang , Yue Guo , Yauwai Yim , Yangqiu Song

We introduce Parametric Linear Dynamic Logic (PLDL), which extends Linear Dynamic Logic (LDL) by temporal operators equipped with parameters that bound their scope. LDL itself was proposed as an extension of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Peter Faymonville , Martin Zimmermann

Description logics are knowledge representation formalisms that provide the formal underpinning of the semantic web and in particular of the $\text{OWL}$ Ontology Web Language. In this paper we investigate the expressive power of logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Camilo Thorne

Investigating the reasoning abilities of transformer models, and discovering new challenging tasks for them, has been a topic of much interest. Recent studies have found these models to be surprisingly strong at performing deductive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Kyle Richardson , Ashish Sabharwal

In this paper we show that the problem of checking consistency of a knowledge base in the Description Logic ALCM is ExpTime-complete. The M stands for meta-modelling as defined by Motz, Rohrer and Severi. To show our main result, we define…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Monica Martinez , Edelweis Rohrer , Paula Severi

LLMs are ideal for decision-making thanks to their ability to reason over long contexts. However, challenges arise when processing speech transcripts that describe complex scenarios, as they are verbose and include repetition, hedging, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yebowen Hu , Xiaoyang Wang , Wenlin Yao , Yiming Lu , Daoan Zhang , Hassan Foroosh , Dong Yu , Fei Liu

Separation Logic is a widely used formalism for describing dynamically allocated linked data structures, such as lists, trees, etc. The decidability status of various fragments of the logic constitutes a long standing open problem. Current…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-02 Radu Iosif , Adam Rogalewicz , Jiri Simacek

We introduce a generic extension of the popular branching-time logic CTL which refines the temporal until and release operators with formal languages. For instance, a language may determine the moments along a path that an until property…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Roland Axelsson , Matthew Hague , Stephan Kreutzer , Martin Lange , Markus Latte

Experimental designs reflect assumptions about variable relationships that determine what causal queries researchers can answer through the experiment. Accounting for and communicating these assumptions is essential for drawing valid,…

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HyperLTL, the extension of Linear Temporal Logic by trace quantifiers, is a uniform framework for expressing information flow policies by relating multiple traces of a security-critical system. HyperLTL has been successfully applied to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Corto Mascle , Martin Zimmermann

Large language models (LLMs) often benefit from verbalized reasoning at inference time, but it remains unclear which aspects of task difficulty these extra reasoning tokens address. To investigate this question, we formalize a framework…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Celine Lee , Alexander M. Rush , Keyon Vafa

Concept Induction refers to the problem of creating complex Description Logic class descriptions (i.e., TBox axioms) from instance examples (i.e., ABox data). In this paper we look particularly at the case where both a set of positive and a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Md Kamruzzaman Sarker , Pascal Hitzler

Description logic Knowledge and Action Bases (KAB) are a mechanism for providing both a semantically rich representation of the information on the domain of interest in terms of a description logic knowledge base and actions to change such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Babak Bagheri Hariri , Diego Calvanese , Marco Montali , Giuseppe De Giacomo , Riccardo De Masellis , Paolo Felli

Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly shows its potential to outperform predicate logic algorithms and human control alike. In automatically deriving a system model, AI algorithms learn relations in data that are not detectable for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Simon Daniel Duque Anton , Daniel Schneider , Hans Dieter Schotten