Continual learning and refinement of causal models through dynamic predicate invention

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Autores principales: Crespo-Fernandez, Enrique, Ray, Oliver, Filho, Telmo de Menezes e Silva, Flach, Peter
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Publicado: 2026
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author Crespo-Fernandez, Enrique
Ray, Oliver
Filho, Telmo de Menezes e Silva
Flach, Peter
author_facet Crespo-Fernandez, Enrique
Ray, Oliver
Filho, Telmo de Menezes e Silva
Flach, Peter
contents Efficiently navigating complex environments requires agents to internalize the underlying logic of their world, yet standard world modelling methods often struggle with sample inefficiency, lack of transparency, and poor scalability. We propose a framework for constructing symbolic causal world models entirely online by integrating continuous model learning and repair into the agent's decision loop, by leveraging the power of Meta-Interpretive Learning and predicate invention to find semantically meaningful and reusable abstractions, allowing an agent to construct a hierarchy of disentangled, high-quality concepts from its observations. We demonstrate that our lifted inference approach scales to domains with complex relational dynamics, where propositional methods suffer from combinatorial explosion, while achieving sample-efficiency orders of magnitude higher than the established PPO neural-network-based baseline.
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spellingShingle Continual learning and refinement of causal models through dynamic predicate invention
Crespo-Fernandez, Enrique
Ray, Oliver
Filho, Telmo de Menezes e Silva
Flach, Peter
Artificial Intelligence
Efficiently navigating complex environments requires agents to internalize the underlying logic of their world, yet standard world modelling methods often struggle with sample inefficiency, lack of transparency, and poor scalability. We propose a framework for constructing symbolic causal world models entirely online by integrating continuous model learning and repair into the agent's decision loop, by leveraging the power of Meta-Interpretive Learning and predicate invention to find semantically meaningful and reusable abstractions, allowing an agent to construct a hierarchy of disentangled, high-quality concepts from its observations. We demonstrate that our lifted inference approach scales to domains with complex relational dynamics, where propositional methods suffer from combinatorial explosion, while achieving sample-efficiency orders of magnitude higher than the established PPO neural-network-based baseline.
title Continual learning and refinement of causal models through dynamic predicate invention
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17217