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Embedding Symbolic Knowledge into Deep Networks

3 Sep 2019NeurIPS 2019 12arXiv:1909.01161archive 2025-07-28

Yaqi Xie, Ziwei Xu, Mohan S. Kankanhalli, Kuldeep S. Meel, Harold Soh

In this work, we aim to leverage prior symbolic knowledge to improve the performance of deep models. We propose a graph embedding network that projects propositional formulae (and assignments) onto a manifold via an augmented Graph Convolutional Network (GCN). To generate semantically-faithful embeddings, we develop techniques to recognize node heterogeneity, and semantic regularization that incorporate structural constraints into the embedding. Experiments show that our approach improves the performance of models trained to perform entailment checking and visual relation prediction. Interestingly, we observe a connection between the tractability of the propositional theory representation and the ease of embedding. Future exploration of this connection may elucidate the relationship between knowledge compilation and vector representation learning.

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