Neural Decision-Propagation for Answer Set Programming

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Auteurs principaux: Eiter, Thomas, Inoue, Katsumi, Moriyama, Sota
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author Eiter, Thomas
Inoue, Katsumi
Moriyama, Sota
author_facet Eiter, Thomas
Inoue, Katsumi
Moriyama, Sota
contents Integration of Answer Set Programming (ASP) with neural networks has emerged as a promising tool in Neuro-symbolic AI. While existing approaches extend the capabilities of ASP to real world domains, their reasoning pipelines depend on classical solvers, which is a bottleneck for scalability. To tackle this problem, we propose a new method to compute stable models, called decision-propagation (DProp), which alternates falsity decisions and truth propagations. Successful DProp computations are shown to capture the stable model semantics. We then develop Neural DProp (NDProp), a differentiable extension of DProp with neural computation for decisions and fuzzy evaluation for propagations. We evaluate the capabilities of NDProp for learning decision heuristics as well as neuro-symbolic integration, and compare it with existing neuro-symbolic approaches. The results show that NDProp can learn to efficiently compute stable models, and it improves accuracy and scalability on neuro-symbolic benchmarks.
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spellingShingle Neural Decision-Propagation for Answer Set Programming
Eiter, Thomas
Inoue, Katsumi
Moriyama, Sota
Artificial Intelligence
Integration of Answer Set Programming (ASP) with neural networks has emerged as a promising tool in Neuro-symbolic AI. While existing approaches extend the capabilities of ASP to real world domains, their reasoning pipelines depend on classical solvers, which is a bottleneck for scalability. To tackle this problem, we propose a new method to compute stable models, called decision-propagation (DProp), which alternates falsity decisions and truth propagations. Successful DProp computations are shown to capture the stable model semantics. We then develop Neural DProp (NDProp), a differentiable extension of DProp with neural computation for decisions and fuzzy evaluation for propagations. We evaluate the capabilities of NDProp for learning decision heuristics as well as neuro-symbolic integration, and compare it with existing neuro-symbolic approaches. The results show that NDProp can learn to efficiently compute stable models, and it improves accuracy and scalability on neuro-symbolic benchmarks.
title Neural Decision-Propagation for Answer Set Programming
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01797