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Learning Reasoning Strategies in End-to-End Differentiable Proving

Minervini, P; Riedel, S; Stenetorp, P; Grefenstette, E; Rocktäschel, T; (2020) Learning Reasoning Strategies in End-to-End Differentiable Proving. In: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 119. (pp. pp. 6938-6949). PMLR Green open access

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Abstract

Attempts to render deep learning models interpretable, data-efficient, and robust have seen some success through hybridisation with rule-based systems, for example, in Neural Theorem Provers (NTPs). These neuro-symbolic models can induce interpretable rules and learn representations from data via back-propagation, while providing logical explanations for their predictions. However, they are restricted by their computational complexity, as they need to consider all possible proof paths for explaining a goal, thus rendering them unfit for large-scale applications. We present Conditional Theorem Provers (CTPs), an extension to NTPs that learns an optimal rule selection strategy via gradient-based optimisation. We show that CTPs are scalable and yield state-of-the-art results on the CLUTRR dataset, which tests systematic generalisation of neural models by learning to reason over smaller graphs and evaluating on larger ones. Finally, CTPs show better link prediction results on standard benchmarks in comparison with other neural-symbolic models, while being explainable.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Learning Reasoning Strategies in End-to-End Differentiable Proving
Event: 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020)
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/minervini20a.htm...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10109732
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