arXiv AI

iFuzz-Meta: An Interpretable Fuzzy Learning Framework Bridging Top-Down and Bottom-Up Knowledge Integration

arXiv:2608. 14646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interpretable representation learning remains a key challenge in modern neural computation, particularly when models are expected not only to perform but also to explain their reasoning.

arXiv AI
Aug 13

HyperANFIS: Enhancing Rule Representation and Interpretability in Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Systems via Hyperbolic Geometry

arXiv:2608. 11768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is an interpretable reasoning framework capable of generating explicit IF-THEN fuzzy rules, making it suitable for tasks requiring transparent reasoning.

By Haoran Pei, Zhao Su, Zetao Lin, Haoran Li, Jun Shen, Qi Zhu, Lan Guo, Qingguo Zhou, Binbin Yong
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

A Multi-Stage Rule-Chaining Framework for Compositional and Interpretable Cognitive Reasoning

The paper introduces a multi-stage rule‑chaining framework for the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC), aiming to model cognitive generalization by inferring abstract rules from few examples. It combines three solvers—a deterministic rule discovery module, a pattern‑composition engine, and a structural abstraction layer—executed sequentially in a fallback hierarchy that reuses earlier reasoning traces to improve interpretability and generalization. The system achieved over 95% accuracy on ARC tasks, demonstrating strong performance across deterministic, compositional, and abstract categories.

By Deblina Kar
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Differentiable Logic Programming to Mitigate Reasoning Shortcuts in Neurosymbolic Systems

arXiv:2607. 21185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neurosymbolic (NeSy) systems integrate neural networks with logical reasoning to achieve both generalization and interpretability, but recent work has shown they are susceptible to shortcut reasoning behaviors.

By Akihiro Takemura (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan), Katsumi Inoue (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan)
arXiv AI
4d ago

Neural Structural Reasoner: A Brain-inspired Architecture for Reasoning over Structured Knowledge

Neural Structural Reasoner (NSR) is a brain-inspired neural network that preserves relational structure directly in the connectivity and dynamics of coupled neuronal populations. It incorporates multi-layered architecture, stable entity representations, and path integration to perform link prediction by parallelizing over candidate relational structures and using confidence-weighted scores. NSR achieves competitive accuracy on knowledge-graph benchmarks, trains faster than several neural baselines, and offers native interpretability by tracking human-readable neuron activations and extracting latent relational hierarchies and compositional rules.

By Zixing Jia, Yuhang Pan, Ni Ji
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Diversified and Perceptible Counterfactual Examples Leveraging Expert Knowledge

The paper introduces DiCEf, a variant of the DiCE counterfactual example generator that incorporates expert knowledge expressed as a fuzzy linguistic vocabulary. By embedding continuous data into this linguistic domain, DiCEf personalises counterfactual explanations to be linguistically perceptible while maintaining minimal cost, sparsity, and diversity. Experimental results on a real‑world dataset demonstrate that this approach yields semantically meaningful counterfactuals for the explainee.

By Akram Bensalem (IMT Atlantique - INFO), Fahima Djelil (Lab-STICC\_MOTEL, IMT Atlantique - INFO), Marie-Jeanne Lesot (IMT Atlantique - INFO, Lab-STICC, Lab-STICC\_MOTEL), Gr{\'e}gory Smits (IMT Atlantique - INFO, Lab-STICC, Lab-STICC\_MOTEL)
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 23

Differentiable Fuzzy Inference Layer: A Monotone, Compositional Ordinal Reasoning Head for Large Language Models

The paper introduces the Differentiable Fuzzy Inference Layer (DFIL), a dual‑path prediction head that pairs a standard classifier with a scalar‑bottlenecked branch using ordered membership functions. DFIL enforces monotonicity in the underlying quantity and enables compositional reasoning via t‑norm operations, addressing failures of standard classifier heads that treat ordinal categories as independent labels. The scalar branch also offers an interpretable interface for analyzing residual errors, and the authors demonstrate DFIL’s effectiveness on ordinal natural‑language tasks across various large language model families.

By Zhen Zhang, Amr Alanwar
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Structure-Internalized Rule Language Model for Faithful Knowledge Graph Reasoning

The paper introduces the Structure-Internalized Rule Language Model (SIRLM) to improve Knowledge Graph Reasoning (KGR) by addressing the mismatch between KG structural context and Large Language Model (LLM) parametric knowledge. SIRLM centers on a Structure-Internalized Rule Generator (SIRG) that uses in-context learning, a structural relation memory, a KG tokenizer, and a neuro-symbolic reasoner to generate structural rules and provide faithful rule-execution feedback. Experiments on 36 datasets against 17 state‑of‑the‑art KGR methods show that SIRLM achieves significant performance gains.

By Xingrui Zhuo, Jiapu Wang, Manzong Huang, Gongqing Wu, Xindong Wu