Neural Reasoning for Robust Instance Retrieval in $\mathcal{SHOIQ}$

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Main Authors: Teyou, Louis Mozart Kamdem, Friedrichs, Luke, Kouagou, N'Dah Jean, Demir, Caglar, Mahmood, Yasir, Heindorf, Stefan, Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga
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author Teyou, Louis Mozart Kamdem
Friedrichs, Luke
Kouagou, N'Dah Jean
Demir, Caglar
Mahmood, Yasir
Heindorf, Stefan
Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga
author_facet Teyou, Louis Mozart Kamdem
Friedrichs, Luke
Kouagou, N'Dah Jean
Demir, Caglar
Mahmood, Yasir
Heindorf, Stefan
Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga
contents Concept learning exploits background knowledge in the form of description logic axioms to learn explainable classification models from knowledge bases. Despite recent breakthroughs in neuro-symbolic concept learning, most approaches still cannot be deployed on real-world knowledge bases. This is due to their use of description logic reasoners, which are not robust against inconsistencies nor erroneous data. We address this challenge by presenting a novel neural reasoner dubbed EBR. Our reasoner relies on embeddings to approximate the results of a symbolic reasoner. We show that EBR solely requires retrieving instances for atomic concepts and existential restrictions to retrieve or approximate the set of instances of any concept in the description logic $\mathcal{SHOIQ}$. In our experiments, we compare EBR with state-of-the-art reasoners. Our results suggest that EBR is robust against missing and erroneous data in contrast to existing reasoners.
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spellingShingle Neural Reasoning for Robust Instance Retrieval in $\mathcal{SHOIQ}$
Teyou, Louis Mozart Kamdem
Friedrichs, Luke
Kouagou, N'Dah Jean
Demir, Caglar
Mahmood, Yasir
Heindorf, Stefan
Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Concept learning exploits background knowledge in the form of description logic axioms to learn explainable classification models from knowledge bases. Despite recent breakthroughs in neuro-symbolic concept learning, most approaches still cannot be deployed on real-world knowledge bases. This is due to their use of description logic reasoners, which are not robust against inconsistencies nor erroneous data. We address this challenge by presenting a novel neural reasoner dubbed EBR. Our reasoner relies on embeddings to approximate the results of a symbolic reasoner. We show that EBR solely requires retrieving instances for atomic concepts and existential restrictions to retrieve or approximate the set of instances of any concept in the description logic $\mathcal{SHOIQ}$. In our experiments, we compare EBR with state-of-the-art reasoners. Our results suggest that EBR is robust against missing and erroneous data in contrast to existing reasoners.
title Neural Reasoning for Robust Instance Retrieval in $\mathcal{SHOIQ}$
topic Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20457