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Main Authors: Hersche, Michael, di Stefano, Francesco, Hofmann, Thomas, Sebastian, Abu, Rahimi, Abbas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16024
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author Hersche, Michael
di Stefano, Francesco
Hofmann, Thomas
Sebastian, Abu
Rahimi, Abbas
author_facet Hersche, Michael
di Stefano, Francesco
Hofmann, Thomas
Sebastian, Abu
Rahimi, Abbas
contents Abstract reasoning is a cornerstone of human intelligence, and replicating it with artificial intelligence (AI) presents an ongoing challenge. This study focuses on efficiently solving Raven's progressive matrices (RPM), a visual test for assessing abstract reasoning abilities, by using distributed computation and operators provided by vector-symbolic architectures (VSA). Instead of hard-coding the rule formulations associated with RPMs, our approach can learn the VSA rule formulations (hence the name Learn-VRF) with just one pass through the training data. Yet, our approach, with compact parameters, remains transparent and interpretable. Learn-VRF yields accurate predictions on I-RAVEN's in-distribution data, and exhibits strong out-of-distribution capabilities concerning unseen attribute-rule pairs, significantly outperforming pure connectionist baselines including large language models. Our code is available at https://github.com/IBM/learn-vector-symbolic-architectures-rule-formulations.
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spellingShingle Probabilistic Abduction for Visual Abstract Reasoning via Learning Rules in Vector-symbolic Architectures
Hersche, Michael
di Stefano, Francesco
Hofmann, Thomas
Sebastian, Abu
Rahimi, Abbas
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Abstract reasoning is a cornerstone of human intelligence, and replicating it with artificial intelligence (AI) presents an ongoing challenge. This study focuses on efficiently solving Raven's progressive matrices (RPM), a visual test for assessing abstract reasoning abilities, by using distributed computation and operators provided by vector-symbolic architectures (VSA). Instead of hard-coding the rule formulations associated with RPMs, our approach can learn the VSA rule formulations (hence the name Learn-VRF) with just one pass through the training data. Yet, our approach, with compact parameters, remains transparent and interpretable. Learn-VRF yields accurate predictions on I-RAVEN's in-distribution data, and exhibits strong out-of-distribution capabilities concerning unseen attribute-rule pairs, significantly outperforming pure connectionist baselines including large language models. Our code is available at https://github.com/IBM/learn-vector-symbolic-architectures-rule-formulations.
title Probabilistic Abduction for Visual Abstract Reasoning via Learning Rules in Vector-symbolic Architectures
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16024