We present efficient differentiable implementations of second-order multi-hop reasoning using a large symbolic knowledge base (KB). We introduce a new operation which can be used to compositionally construct second-order multi-hop templates in a neural model, and evaluate a number of alternative implementations, with d…
New neural KB representation speeds up reasoning with large symbolic knowledge bases.
problem Efficiently reasoning with large symbolic knowledge bases.
method Sparse-matrix reified knowledge base, enabling fully differentiable, scalable neural modules.
result Competitive performance on KB completion and semantic parsing benchmarks.
Knowledge base (KB) completion adds new facts to a KB by making inferences from existing facts, for example by inferring with high likelihood nationality(X,Y) from bornIn(X,Y). Most previous methods infer simple one-hop relational synonyms like this, or use as evidence a multi-hop relational path treated as an atomic f…
A novel beam training scheme optimizes multi-hop THz communications with up to 75% performance gain.
problem Optimizing beam training for multi-hop THz communications with high data rates and low time overhead.
method Developed a reinforcement learning-based hierarchical beam training scheme with dynamic training levels.
result The proposed scheme achieves up to 75% performance gain in spectral efficiency compared to conventional methods.
Method integrates logical rules into neural multi-hop reasoning for drug repurposing.
problem Capturing long-range dependencies in biomedical data.
method Combines logical rules with neural multi-hop reasoning using reinforcement learning.
result Our method outperforms baseline methods in drug repurposing tasks.
Multi-hop inference is necessary for machine learning systems to successfully solve tasks such as Recognising Textual Entailment and Machine Reading. In this work, we demonstrate the effectiveness of adaptive computation for learning the number of inference steps required for examples of different complexity and that l…
MAGNA improves graph neural networks by incorporating multi-hop context information.
problem Limited context in current graph neural networks.
method Diffuses attention scores across the network, accounting for all paths between nodes.
result State-of-the-art performance on node classification and knowledge graph completion benchmarks.
Recent breakthroughs in computer vision and natural language processing have spurred interest in challenging multi-modal tasks such as visual question-answering and visual dialogue. For such tasks, one successful approach is to condition image-based convolutional network computation on language via Feature-wise Linear …
Several social, medical, engineering and biological challenges rely on discovering the functionality of networks from their structure and node metadata, when it is available. For example, in chemoinformatics one might want to detect whether a molecule is toxic based on structure and atomic types, or discover the resear…
On-device machine learning (ML) has brought about the accessibility to a tremendous amount of data from the users while keeping their local data private instead of storing it in a central entity. However, for privacy guarantee, it is inevitable at each device to compensate for the quality of data or learning performanc…
ManifoldMind uses adaptive-curvature probabilistic spheres for trustworthy recommendations in semantic hierarchies.
problem Sparse and abstract recommendation domains where users explore diverse conceptual paths.
method Adaptive-curvature probabilistic spheres, soft multi-hop inference, and curvature-aware semantic kernel.
result Superior NDCG, calibration, and diversity compared to baselines on public benchmarks.
Graph neural networks improve volatility forecasting by capturing spillover effects.
problem Forecasting multivariate realized volatility with spillover effects.
method Customized graph neural networks incorporating spillover effects from multi-hop neighbors.
result Modeling nonlinear spillover effects enhances forecasting accuracy, especially for short-term horizons.
Real-time traffic volume inference is key to an intelligent city. It is a challenging task because accurate traffic volumes on the roads can only be measured at certain locations where sensors are installed. Moreover, the traffic evolves over time due to the influences of weather, events, holidays, etc. Existing soluti…
FinReflectKG benchmarks financial QA by linking relevant context from a financial KG, improving model performance and efficiency.
problem Efficiently retrieving and navigating relevant financial information across diverse sources and years.
method A benchmark built on a temporally indexed financial KG, generating QA pairs via pattern-specific prompts and quality control, evaluating retrieval scenarios.
result KG-guided retrieval yields substantial gains in correctness and token utilization, improving model performance by 24%.
This study compares GNNs and GA-MLPs, finding GA-MLPs can distinguish graphs but not count walks.
problem Comparing expressive power and graph isomorphism testing capabilities of GNNs and GA-MLPs.
method GA-MLPs augment node features with multi-hop operators and apply MLPs node-wise; GNNs are compared as a baseline.
result GA-MLPs can distinguish almost all non-isomorphic graphs but cannot count attributed walks, unlike GNNs.
Given a graph where every node has certain attributes associated with it and some nodes have labels associated with them, Collective Classification (CC) is the task of assigning labels to every unlabeled node using information from the node as well as its neighbors. It is often the case that a node is not only influenc…
Privacy-preserving GNNs for graph data with sensitive node data.
problem Privacy concerns in learning node representations for graphs with sensitive data.
method Developed a privacy-preserving GNN learning algorithm based on Local Differential Privacy (LDP). Proposed an LDP encoder, an unbiased rectifier, and a denoising mechanism (KProp).
result Our method maintains a satisfying level of accuracy with low privacy loss.
Explainability and effectiveness are two key aspects for building recommender systems. Prior efforts mostly focus on incorporating side information to achieve better recommendation performance. However, these methods have some weaknesses: (1) prediction of neural network-based embedding methods are hard to explain and …
Cross-domain collaborative filtering (CF) aims to alleviate data sparsity in single-domain CF by leveraging knowledge transferred from related domains. Many traditional methods focus on enriching compared neighborhood relations in CF directly to address the sparsity problem. In this paper, we propose superhighway const…
This work investigates how multi-round reasoning improves LLM performance.
problem Improving problem-solving abilities in complex tasks with LLMs.
method Investigates approximation, learnability, and generalization properties of multi-round auto-regressive models.
result Transformers with finite context windows are universal approximators for Turing-computable functions and can approximate any Turing-computable sequence-to-sequence function through multi-round reasoning.
Neuro-symbolic system tackles conversational AI's need for natural, broad-ranging dialogue.
problem Understanding unstated presumptions in conversational AI commands.
method Neuro-symbolic theorem prover for multi-hop reasoning.
result Extracts multi-hop reasoning chains from natural language commands.
End-to-end KBQA system learns from multiple reasoning paths without labeled paths.
problem Lack of labeled reasoning paths limits KBQA system performance.
method End-to-end KBQA system using multiple reasoning paths.
result Demonstrates strong performance on various KBQA datasets.
With the arrival of the big data era, more and more data are becoming readily available in various real-world applications and those data are usually highly heterogeneous. Taking computational medicine as an example, we have both Electronic Health Records (EHR) and medical images for each patient. For complicated disea…
CorePPR combines PageRank and CoreRank for scalable GNNs.
problem Expensive message passing in GNNs for large graphs.
method Learnable convex combination of approximate PPR and CoreRank, dynamic node selection.
result CorePPR outperforms PPRGo on large graphs.
Semi-supervised node classification in attributed graphs, i.e., graphs with node features, involves learning to classify unlabeled nodes given a partially labeled graph. Label predictions are made by jointly modeling the node and its' neighborhood features. State-of-the-art models for node classification on such attrib…
DRew dynamically rewires message passing to improve long-range tasks.
problem Over-squashing in MPNNs due to local message passing.
method Layer-dependent rewiring and delay mechanism for gradual densification.
result DRew outperforms graph Transformers and multi-hop MPNNs on long-range tasks.
Proposes a graph pooling method leveraging node proximity for hierarchical graph representation learning.
problem Efficiently exploiting the geometry of graph data for hierarchical representation learning.
method Combines node proximity with kernel representation of topology and node features for adaptive node signal similarities evaluation.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on graph classification benchmark datasets.
A scalable framework preserves personalized higher-order network proximities.
problem Lack of expressive methods to preserve personalized higher-order network proximities.
method Incorporates random walk into a sound objective to preserve arbitrary higher-order proximities and introduces random walk with restart for personalized-weighted preservation.
result Consistently and substantially outperforms state-of-the-art methods on real-world networks.
Graph Cascades rewire graphs to improve structure-aware learning.
problem Improving graph neural networks and transformers for structure-aware learning.
method Graph Cascades uses contagion-based diffusion processes to construct an auxiliary graph with reinforced edges.
result Graph Cascades improves node-classification benchmarks across various graph types.
GTNs learn new graph structures and improve node representation learning.
problem Learning node representations on misspecified or heterogeneous graphs.
method Graph Transformer Networks (GTNs) that generate new graph structures and learn effective node representations.
result GTNs achieve state-of-the-art performance in node classification tasks without predefined meta-paths.
UniFinEval benchmarks financial models across text, images, and videos.
problem Challenges in evaluating financial multimodal models across text, images, and videos.
method Proposes UniFinEval, a unified multimodal benchmark for financial scenarios.
result Gemini-3-pro-preview achieves best performance but still lags behind experts.
RDLI integrates domain logic and context grounding to detect crypto anomalies under scarce labels.
problem Extreme label scarcity and evasion strategies in crypto networks.
method Relational Domain Logic Integration (RDLI) with Retrieval Grounded Context (RGC).
result RDLI outperforms GNN baselines by 28.9% in F1 score under 0.01% label scarcity.
Bipartite graphs have been used to represent data relationships in many data-mining applications such as in E-commerce recommendation systems. Since learning in graph space is more complicated than in Euclidian space, recent studies have extensively utilized neural nets to effectively and efficiently embed a graph's no…
MPNNs struggle with class-bottlenecks and heterophily, leading to performance limitations.
problem Performance limitations of MPNNs under heterophily and structural bottlenecks.
method A statistical framework decomposing model performance into SNR components and proving bounds on sensitivity.
result Optimal graph structures for maximizing higher-order homophily are disjoint unions of single-class and two-class-bipartite clusters.
A new method for MARL with partial observations reduces communication overhead.
problem Inefficient MARL algorithms in large-scale problems due to state and action information sharing.
method Distributed zeroth-order policy optimization with local policy gradient estimation using consensus.
result The method converges to a policy that is a stationary point of the global objective function.
Inference models are a key component in scaling variational inference to deep latent variable models, most notably as encoder networks in variational auto-encoders (VAEs). By replacing conventional optimization-based inference with a learned model, inference is amortized over data examples and therefore more computatio…
Approximate probabilistic inference algorithms are central to many fields. Examples include sequential Monte Carlo inference in robotics, variational inference in machine learning, and Markov chain Monte Carlo inference in statistics. A key problem faced by practitioners is measuring the accuracy of an approximate infe…
This work frames active inference through control as inference, offering robust control algorithms.
problem Active inference framework lacks practical sensorimotor control algorithms.
method Frame active inference through control as inference, presenting trajectory optimization as inference.
result AI may be framed as partially-observed CaI when the cost function is defined in observation states.
Simformer uses transformer models to perform flexible Bayesian inference.
problem Current simulation-based inference methods are inflexible and require fixed priors.
method Trains a probabilistic diffusion model with transformer architectures.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods on various benchmarks.
PE-SVI reduces SVI inference complexity by finding a suitable start point.
problem Complex posterior inference in graphical models leads to suboptimal learning.
method PE-SVI uses a pseudo-encoded start point to reduce gradient steps and step sizes.
result PE-SVI achieves the same ELBo objective as SVI with less than 1% of the required steps.
Improved Bayesian inference for neuronal ensemble inference reduces computational cost.
problem Efficient inference of neuronal ensembles from activity data.
method Modified MCMC algorithm with simulated annealing for hyperparameter control.
result Our method reduces computational cost while maintaining or improving inference accuracy.
Adding metadata abruptly changes network inference outcomes.
problem Understanding the impact of metadata on network inference.
method Investigated the effect of metadata on network inference problems.
result Metadata causes abrupt transitions in inference outcomes.
SNVI combines likelihood estimation with variational inference for efficient Bayesian inference.
problem Bayesian inference in models with intractable likelihoods.
method Sequential Neural Variational Inference (SNVI) that combines likelihood-estimation with variational inference.
result SNVI is more computationally efficient than previous algorithms without sacrificing accuracy.
Paper introduces a diagnostic for approximate inference methods.
problem Estimating errors in probabilistic inference algorithms, especially for approximate methods.
method Repeatedly simulate datasets from the prior and perform inference on each, estimating a symmetric KL-divergence.
result A diagnostic for approximate inference methods can be estimated using symmetric KL-divergence.
Recent efforts on combining deep models with probabilistic graphical models are promising in providing flexible models that are also easy to interpret. We propose a variational message-passing algorithm for variational inference in such models. We make three contributions. First, we propose structured inference network…
Probabilistic inference procedures are usually coded painstakingly from scratch, for each target model and each inference algorithm. We reduce this effort by generating inference procedures from models automatically. We make this code generation modular by decomposing inference algorithms into reusable program-to-progr…
A new method for safer statistical inference after predictions.
problem Statistical inference with pseudo-outcomes from machine learning predictions.
method Prediction De-Correlated Inference (PDC) framework.
result PDC consistently outperforms supervised methods and can adapt to any model.
Paper proposes Walsh-Hadamard Variational Inference for efficient approximate inference in large models.
problem Over-regularization in variational inference for large models.
method Walsh-Hadamard factorization strategies to reduce parameterization, accelerate computations, and increase posterior expressiveness.
result Efficient approximate inference achieved in over-parameterized models.