LogicMP: A Neuro-symbolic Approach for Encoding First-order Logic Constraints

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Main Authors: Xu, Weidi, Wang, Jingwei, Xie, Lele, He, Jianshan, Zhou, Hongting, Wang, Taifeng, Wan, Xiaopei, Chen, Jingdong, Qu, Chao, Chu, Wei
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author Xu, Weidi
Wang, Jingwei
Xie, Lele
He, Jianshan
Zhou, Hongting
Wang, Taifeng
Wan, Xiaopei
Chen, Jingdong
Qu, Chao
Chu, Wei
author_facet Xu, Weidi
Wang, Jingwei
Xie, Lele
He, Jianshan
Zhou, Hongting
Wang, Taifeng
Wan, Xiaopei
Chen, Jingdong
Qu, Chao
Chu, Wei
contents Integrating first-order logic constraints (FOLCs) with neural networks is a crucial but challenging problem since it involves modeling intricate correlations to satisfy the constraints. This paper proposes a novel neural layer, LogicMP, whose layers perform mean-field variational inference over an MLN. It can be plugged into any off-the-shelf neural network to encode FOLCs while retaining modularity and efficiency. By exploiting the structure and symmetries in MLNs, we theoretically demonstrate that our well-designed, efficient mean-field iterations effectively mitigate the difficulty of MLN inference, reducing the inference from sequential calculation to a series of parallel tensor operations. Empirical results in three kinds of tasks over graphs, images, and text show that LogicMP outperforms advanced competitors in both performance and efficiency.
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spellingShingle LogicMP: A Neuro-symbolic Approach for Encoding First-order Logic Constraints
Xu, Weidi
Wang, Jingwei
Xie, Lele
He, Jianshan
Zhou, Hongting
Wang, Taifeng
Wan, Xiaopei
Chen, Jingdong
Qu, Chao
Chu, Wei
Artificial Intelligence
Symbolic Computation
Integrating first-order logic constraints (FOLCs) with neural networks is a crucial but challenging problem since it involves modeling intricate correlations to satisfy the constraints. This paper proposes a novel neural layer, LogicMP, whose layers perform mean-field variational inference over an MLN. It can be plugged into any off-the-shelf neural network to encode FOLCs while retaining modularity and efficiency. By exploiting the structure and symmetries in MLNs, we theoretically demonstrate that our well-designed, efficient mean-field iterations effectively mitigate the difficulty of MLN inference, reducing the inference from sequential calculation to a series of parallel tensor operations. Empirical results in three kinds of tasks over graphs, images, and text show that LogicMP outperforms advanced competitors in both performance and efficiency.
title LogicMP: A Neuro-symbolic Approach for Encoding First-order Logic Constraints
topic Artificial Intelligence
Symbolic Computation
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15458