Mimicking the brain: Deep learning meets vector-symbolic AI

Each box is an embedding (vector); input embeddings are light blue (latent are dark). Learning code generation rules as mappings between parse trees has the advantage that the target text produced by the rules is correct (by construction) with respect to the target grammar. This is not the case for template-based M2T code generators, where the fixed texts in templates can be arbitrary strings, and may be invalid syntax in the target language. Symbolic artificial intelligence is very convenient for settings where the rules are very clear cut,  and you can easily obtain input and transform it into symbols. In fact, rule-based systems still account for most computer programs today, including those used to create deep learning applications. First of all, every deep neural net trained by supervised learning combines deep learning and symbolic manipulation, at least in a rudimentary sense.

Optimization closely followed the procedure outlined above for the algebraic-only MLC variant. The key difference here is that full MLC model used a behaviourally informed meta-learning strategy aimed at capturing successes and patterns of error. Using the same meta-training episodes as the purely algebraic variant, each query example was passed through a bias-based transformation process (see Extended Data Fig. 4 for pseudocode) before MLC processed it during meta-training. Specifically, each query was paired with its algebraic output in 80% of cases and a bias-based heuristic in the other 20% of cases (chosen to approximately reflect the measured human accuracy of 80.7%). To create the heuristic query for meta-training, a fair coin was flipped to decide between a stochastic one-to-one translation and a noisy application of the underlying grammatical rules.

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Symbolic regression is typically used for tasks that have a set of observed variables and a prediction that should be made. For example, a large set of income data for individuals and an optimal mortgage loan prediction. Thus, overall we consider that CGBE using tree-to-tree learning is more generally applicable and more usable for practitioners than an approach using metamodels. We applied this idea to learning parts of the UML to Java transformation, using the Java metamodel of [9] as the target metamodel. Table 5 compares CGBE with other code generation approaches with regard to the generator structure and development knowledge needed. To answer this question, we compare the development effort required to apply CGBE for the example code generators of Sect.

MLC still used only standard transformer components but, to handle longer sequences, added modularity in how the study examples were processed, as described in the ‘Machine learning benchmarks’ section of the Methods. SCAN involves translating instructions (such as ‘walk twice’) into sequences of actions (‘WALK WALK’). COGS involves translating sentences (for example, ‘A balloon was drawn by Emma’) into logical forms that express their meanings (balloon(x1) ∨ draw.theme(x3, x1) ∨ draw.agent(x3, Emma)). COGS evaluates 21 different types of systematic generalization, with a majority examining one-shot learning of nouns and verbs. To encourage few-shot inference and composition of meaning, we rely on surface-level word-type permutations for both benchmarks, a simple variant of meta-learning that uses minimal structural knowledge, described in the ‘Machine learning benchmarks’ section of the Methods.

A Guide to Symbolic Regression Machine Learning

Their arguments are based on a need to address the two kinds of thinking discussed in Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman describes human thinking as having two components, System 1 and System 2. System 1 is the kind used for pattern recognition while System 2 is far better suited for planning, deduction, and deliberative thinking. In this view, deep learning best models the first kind of thinking while symbolic reasoning best models the second kind and both are needed.

Multiple different approaches to represent knowledge and then reason with those representations have been investigated. Below is a quick overview of approaches to knowledge representation and automated reasoning. Our chemist was Carl Djerassi, inventor of the chemical behind the birth control pill, and also one of the world’s most respected mass spectrometrists. We began to add in their knowledge, inventing knowledge engineering as we were going along. These experiments amounted to titrating into DENDRAL more and more knowledge.

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