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Computational models of pragmatic language use have traditionally relied on hand-specified sets of utterances and meanings, limiting their applicability to real-world language use. We propose a neuro-symbolic framework that enhances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Polina Tsvilodub , Robert D. Hawkins , Michael Franke

Formal analysis to ensure adherence of software to defined architectural constraints is not yet broadly used within software development, due to the effort involved in defining formal architecture models. Within this paper, we outline…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Steffen Herbold , Christoph Knieke , Andreas Rausch , Christian Schindler

Categorical compositional distributional semantics is an approach to modelling language that combines the success of vector-based models of meaning with the compositional power of formal semantics. However, this approach was developed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Martha Lewis

In the ongoing quest for hybridizing discrete reasoning with neural nets, there is an increasing interest in neural architectures that can learn how to solve discrete reasoning or optimization problems from natural inputs, a task that Large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Marianne Defresne , Romain Gambardella , Sophie Barbe , Thomas Schiex

Visual reasoning tasks such as visual question answering (VQA) require an interplay of visual perception with reasoning about the question semantics grounded in perception. However, recent advances in this area are still primarily driven by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Saeed Amizadeh , Hamid Palangi , Oleksandr Polozov , Yichen Huang , Kazuhito Koishida

Symbolic perturbations offer a novel approach for influencing neural representations without requiring direct modification of model parameters. The recursive regeneration of symbolic structures introduces structured variations in latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Kathlyn Eaglewood , Tobias Featherington , Dorian Mayfair , Sylvester Grimshaw , James Pettigrew

Vector representations of graphs and relational structures, whether hand-crafted feature vectors or learned representations, enable us to apply standard data analysis and machine learning techniques to the structures. A wide range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Martin Grohe

The importance of building neural networks that can learn to reason has been well recognized in the neuro-symbolic community. In this paper, we apply neural pointer networks for conducting reasoning over symbolic knowledge bases. In doing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Monireh Ebrahimi , Aaron Eberhart , Pascal Hitzler

Modern self-supervised predictive architectures excel at capturing complex statistical correlations from high-dimensional data but lack mechanisms to internalize verifiable human logic, leaving them susceptible to spurious correlations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yongchao Huang , Hassan Raza

Neuro-symbolic representations have proved effective in learning structure information in vision and language. In this paper, we propose a new model architecture for learning multi-modal neuro-symbolic representations for video captioning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Hassan Akbari , Hamid Palangi , Jianwei Yang , Sudha Rao , Asli Celikyilmaz , Roland Fernandez , Paul Smolensky , Jianfeng Gao , Shih-Fu Chang

The ability to encode and manipulate data structures with distributed neural representations could qualitatively enhance the capabilities of traditional neural networks by supporting rule-based symbolic reasoning, a central property of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 E. Paxon Frady , Spencer Kent , Bruno A. Olshausen , Friedrich T. Sommer

How do we imagine visual objects and combine them to create new forms? To answer this question, we need to explore the cognitive, computational and neural mechanisms underlying imagery and creativity. The body of research on deep learning…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-14 Shekoofeh Hedayati , Roger Beaty , Brad Wyble

We marry two powerful ideas: deep representation learning for visual recognition and language understanding, and symbolic program execution for reasoning. Our neural-symbolic visual question answering (NS-VQA) system first recovers a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Kexin Yi , Jiajun Wu , Chuang Gan , Antonio Torralba , Pushmeet Kohli , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Logic-based problems such as planning, theorem proving, or puzzles, typically involve combinatoric search and structured knowledge representation. Artificial neural networks are very successful statistical learners, however, for many years,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Gadi Pinkas , Shimon Cohen

The unification of statistical (data-driven) and symbolic (knowledge-driven) methods is widely recognised as one of the key challenges of modern AI. Recent years have seen large number of publications on such hybrid neuro-symbolic AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Michael van Bekkum , Maaike de Boer , Frank van Harmelen , André Meyer-Vitali , Annette ten Teije

This work describes a methodology that combines logic-based systems and connectionist systems. Our approach uses finite truth-valued {\L}ukasiewicz logic, wherein every connective can be defined by a neuron in an artificial network. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Carlos Leandro

We first observe a potential weakness of continuous vector representations of symbols in neural machine translation. That is, the continuous vector representation, or a word embedding vector, of a symbol encodes multiple dimensions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Heeyoul Choi , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

Diagrammatic, analogical or iconic representations are often contrasted with linguistic or logical representations, in which the shape of the symbols is arbitrary. The aim of this paper is to make a case for the usefulness of diagrams in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Catherine Recanati

Humans have the ability to seamlessly combine low-level visual input with high-level symbolic reasoning often in the form of recognising objects, learning relations between them and applying rules. Neuro-symbolic systems aim to bring a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Nuri Cingillioglu , Alessandra Russo

During the last decades, many cognitive architectures (CAs) have been realized adopting different assumptions about the organization and the representation of their knowledge level. Some of them (e.g. SOAR [Laird (2012)]) adopt a classical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Antonio Lieto , Antonio Chella , Marcello Frixione