arXiv Machine Learning

What Comes Next and Why: Interpretable Next-Event Prediction with Neuro-Symbolic Rules

The paper introduces RULES, a neuro-symbolic model that learns sequential rules directly from data, and RUNES, which combines these rules with a residual network for next-event prediction. RULES can accurately recover ground truth rules in synthetic experiments and uncover compact, interpretable rule sets on real datasets. RUNES achieves competitive accuracy while offering transparent access to the active rules and the residual adjustments that refine predictions.

arXiv AI
Oct 2

Auto-Formalizing Neuro-Symbolic Predictors

arXiv:2610.01519v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neuro-Symbolic (NeSy) predictors incorporate prior knowledge into the prediction process of neural networks, ensuring that outputs satisfy specified...

By Samuele Bortolotti, Weixin Chen, Han Zhao, Andrea Passerini, Stefano Teso, Antonio Vergari
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Decision-Aware Suffix Prediction and Reasoning of Business Processes

The paper introduces a decision‑aware suffix prediction framework that combines neural suffix predictors with decision mining rules extracted from event logs. By incorporating case‑ and event‑level attributes into the prediction process, the approach improves accuracy for short prefixes and rare process variants. Experiments on multiple event logs demonstrate that the framework not only enhances prediction performance but also provides intrinsic interpretability through mined decision rules.

By Henryk Mustroph, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
arXiv AI
Jun 24

Neuro-Symbolic Drive: Rule-Grounded Faithful Reasoning for Driving VLAs

arXiv:2606. 23938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driving VLA models incorporating Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning are attractive because they leverage pretrained VLM representations and expose intermediate decisions in natural language, yet current rationales often lack the step-by-step decision semantics needed to keep the rationale causally connected to the planned motion.

By Xiangbo Gao, Xiukun Huang, Boyu Lu, Junge Zhang, Mengjie Mao, Jiachen Li, Wei Xiong, Zhengzhong Tu
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

NeuroRule: Making Black-Box Neural Networks Explainable through Rule-set Evolution

NeuroRule is a knowledge distillation framework that transforms high‑capacity neural networks into explainable rule‑sets. It adapts the EVOTER rule‑set evolution infrastructure to evolve propositional logic expressions that capture the neural network’s performance. The approach includes a conciseness objective to enhance explainability and demonstrates viability even without access to the original training data.

By Tapaswini Kodavanti, Hormoz Shahrzad, Risto Miikkulainen