Simon Stepputtis

Neuro-Symbolic Learning

Project Timeline: 2022 - Now
Introduction

Neuro-symbolic reasoning represents a significant advancement in the field of artificial intelligence, merging the intuitive pattern recognition capabilities of neural networks with the logical and interpretable framework of symbolic AI. This hybrid approach addresses critical limitations of both approaches by combining their respective strengths. By combining the learning efficiency and adaptability of neural networks with the explicit reasoning and rule-based processing of symbolic AI, neuro-symbolic systems can achieve more accurate, transparent, flexible, and reliable decision-making. This integration is especially crucial in applications requiring both data-driven insights and logical, explainable decisions, such as understanding communications, recognizing objects, and robotics. Neuro-symbolic reasoning thus paves the way for more robust, understandable, and trustworthy AI systems, aligning machine intelligence more closely with human-like understanding and reasoning while simultaneously providing a way of post-training adaption through the alteration of the symbolic knowledge.