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cs.AI2026

An AI Monkey Gets Grapes for Sure -- Sphere Neural Networks for Reliable Decision-Making

Tiansi Dong, Henry He, Pietro Liò +1

This paper compares three methodological categories of neural reasoning: LLM reasoning, supervised learning-based reasoning, and explicit model-based reasoning. LLMs remain unrelia…

cs.CL2023

Word Sense Disambiguation as a Game of Neurosymbolic Darts

Tiansi Dong, Rafet Sifa

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is one of the hardest tasks in natural language understanding and knowledge engineering. The glass ceiling of 80% F1 score is recently achieved thro…

cs.LG2020

Learning Syllogism with Euler Neural-Networks

Tiansi Dong, Chengjiang Li, Christian Bauckhage +3

Traditional neural networks represent everything as a vector, and are able to approximate a subset of logical reasoning to a certain degree. As basic logic relations are better rep…

cs.AI2026

Data-driven Machine Learning Cannot Reach Symbolic-level Logical Reasoning -- The Limit of the Scaling Law

Tiansi Dong, Mateja Jamnik, Pietro Liò

By promoting vectors to spheres and enabling explicit model construction, neural networks can perform symbolic-level syllogistic reasoning without training data. We identify two fu…

cs.CL2021

Interpretable and Low-Resource Entity Matching via Decoupling Feature Learning from Decision Making

Zijun Yao, Chengjiang Li, Tiansi Dong +6

Entity Matching (EM) aims at recognizing entity records that denote the same real-world object. Neural EM models learn vector representation of entity descriptions and match entiti…

cs.AI2025

Sphere Neural-Networks for Rational Reasoning

Tiansi Dong, Mateja Jamnik, Pietro Liò

The success of Large Language Models (LLMs), e.g., ChatGPT, is witnessed by their planetary popularity, their capability of human-like communication, and also by their steadily imp…