Semirings for probabilistic and neuro-symbolic logic programming
The field of probabilistic logic programming (PLP) focuses on integrating probabilistic models into programming languages based on logic. Over the past 30 years, numerous languages and frameworks have been developed for modeling, inference and learning in probabilistic logic programs. While original...
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| Published in: | International journal of approximate reasoning Vol. 171; p. 109130 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier Inc
01.08.2024
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| ISSN: | 0888-613X, 1873-4731, 1873-4731 |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | The field of probabilistic logic programming (PLP) focuses on integrating probabilistic models into programming languages based on logic. Over the past 30 years, numerous languages and frameworks have been developed for modeling, inference and learning in probabilistic logic programs. While originally PLP focused on discrete probability, more recent approaches have incorporated continuous distributions as well as neural networks, effectively yielding neuro-symbolic methods. We provide an overview and synthesis of this domain, thereby contributing a unified algebraic perspective on the different flavors of PLP, showing that many if not most of the extensions of PLP can be cast within a common algebraic logic programming framework, in which facts are labeled with elements of a semiring and disjunction and conjunction are replaced by addition and multiplication. This does not only hold for the PLP variations itself but also for the underlying execution mechanism that is based on (algebraic) model counting. In order to showcase and explain this unified perspective, we focus on the ProbLog language and its extensions. |
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| ISSN: | 0888-613X 1873-4731 1873-4731 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijar.2024.109130 |