arXiv AI

Ceci n'est pas une pipe: AI systems as semantic abstractions

arXiv:2607. 09489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An AI system's output is not the fact or world state it appears to describe, but rather an engineered representation.

arXiv AI
Jul 15

A Neurosymbolic Approach to Natural Language Formalization and Verification

arXiv:2511. 09008v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models perform well at natural language interpretation and reasoning, but their lack of formal correctness guarantees limits their adoption in regulated industries like finance and health-care that operate under strict policies.

By Chenyang An, Sam Bayless, Stefano Buliani, Darion Cassel, Byron Cook, Duncan Clough, R\'emi Delmas, Nafi Diallo, Ferhat Erata, Nick Feng, Dimitra Giannakopoulou, Aman Goel, Aditya Gokhale, Joe Hendrix, Victor Heorhiadi, Marc Hudak, Dejan Jovanovi\'c, Andrew M. Kent, Benjamin Kiesl-Reiter, Jeffrey J. Kuna, Nadia Labai, Joseph Lilien, Divya Raghunathan, Zvonimir Rakamari\'c, Niloofar Razavi, Michael Tautschnig, Ali Torkamani, Nathaniel Weir, Michael W. Whalen, Jianan Yao
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Generative Interpretability via Scalable Neuro-Symbolic Models

The paper argues that as Large Language Models transition from chatbots to agentic systems, the current post-hoc interpretability paradigm is insufficient for safe deployment because it cannot audit or intervene before an output is produced. It proposes a shift to generative interpretability, where a model’s inference process inherently exposes semantically meaningful checkpoints that are human-understandable and can be causally intervened upon. The authors illustrate the advantages of this approach and introduce Neuro‑Symbolic Models as a concrete implementation.

By Xiaocong Yang
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Knowledge Cards: Structured Knowledge for AI Systems

The paper introduces Knowledge Cards, a new structured artefact designed to capture validated knowledge about specific concepts that AI systems use to make decisions. Unlike existing model, data, and system cards, Knowledge Cards focus on the layer between inputs and outputs, documenting entities, relationships, reasoning patterns, conditions for validity, and provenance, all grounded in a formal domain ontology and signed off by a domain expert. Prototype cards have been created in the energy and pharmaceutical domains, and the schema is released as a public draft for community engagement.

By Liliana Ferreira
arXiv AI
6d ago

A Synthetic Ground-Truth Framework for the Evaluation of Explainable AI Methods

The paper introduces a synthetic ground‑truth framework for evaluating explainable AI (XAI) methods, addressing the lack of reliable evaluation procedures. By using controlled interventions to create datasets where the importance of input components is known, the framework generates ground‑truth explanations that align with the model’s actual decision process. The authors apply this approach to binary images, tabular data, and time series, and find that nine popular XAI methods exhibit significant limitations, underscoring the need for intervention‑based benchmarks.

By Miquel Mir\'o-Nicolau, Francesco Spinnato, Riccardo Guidotti
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 25

Stochastic Semantic Evidence Graphs: Uncertainty Propagation and Governance for Agentic AI

The paper introduces Stochastic Semantic Evidence Graphs (SSEGs), a hierarchical stochastic directed acyclic graph that models uncertainty in AI-agent workflows, from evidence and retrieval to generation and decision mapping. SSEGs expand language nodes into autoregressive token subgraphs, optionally apply semantic reduction and calibration, and preserve uncertain claim–passage relations while propagating Fréchet bounds. The authors derive pathwise error bounds, use nodewise terms to trigger governance checks, and demonstrate through experiments that SSEGs can detect and quantify where uncertainty enters and propagates in AI outputs.

By Matthew Francis Dixon