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20202026
most citedInterpretable and Explainable Logical Policies via Neurally Guided Symbolic Abstraction

7 citations · 14 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.LG2026

Blending experimental electron density information to protein-ligand interaction

Seonghyun Park, Shuan Chen, Jun Jin Choong +6

Machine learning models for protein-ligand interactions commonly rely on atomic coordinates, which are constructed by fitting molecular models to experimental electron-density maps…

cs.AI2026

MolBioKG: Grounding Out-of-Graph Molecules in Biomedical Knowledge Graphs via Multi-Resolution Structural Anchoring

Yiming Zhang, Hikaru Shindo, Shuan Chen +5

Biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) accelerate drug discovery, but standard pipelines assume query molecules already exist as graph entities, leaving unregistered molecules disconnec…

cs.LG2026

Pepti-drift: Scalable Safe-Active Peptide Generation Without Inference-Time Guidance

Takashi Fujiwara, Hikaru Shindo, Kaushalya Madhawa +6

Therapeutic peptides are a promising drug modality, but their generation must satisfy multiple therapeutic constraints. We introduce BindSafe-PepBench, a fixed-budget benchmark tha…

cs.LG2026

Learning Explicit Behavioral Models with Adaptive Questions and World-Model Probes

Hikaru Shindo, Yu Deng, Teng Cao +5

Interactive agents trained only against task return can achieve high scores while failing to represent the mechanisms that make their actions succeed. This makes brittle behavior d…

cs.LG2026

Kintsugi: Learning Policies by Repairing Executable Knowledge Bases

Teng Cao, Yu Deng, Hikaru Shindo +6

Modern embodied agents achieve impressive performance, but their task knowledge is often stored in neural weights, latent state, or prompt-bound memory, making individual policy kn…

cs.AI2026

GRAIL: Autonomous Concept Grounding for Neuro-Symbolic Reinforcement Learning

Hikaru Shindo, Henri Rößler, Quentin Delfosse +1

Neuro-symbolic Reinforcement Learning (NeSy-RL) combines symbolic reasoning with gradient-based optimization to achieve interpretable and generalizable policies. Relational concept…

cs.AI2026

SocialGrid: A Benchmark for Planning and Social Reasoning in Embodied Multi-Agent Systems

Hikaru Shindo, Hanzhao Lin, Lukas Helff +2

As Large Language Models (LLMs) transition from text processors to autonomous agents, evaluating their social reasoning in embodied multi-agent settings becomes critical. We introd…

cs.LG2026

LLMs Gaming Verifiers: RLVR can Lead to Reward Hacking

Lukas Helff, Quentin Delfosse, David Steinmann +6

As reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become the dominant paradigm for scaling reasoning capabilities in LLMs, a new failure mode emerges: LLMs gaming verifi…

cs.AI2025

Synthesizing Visual Concepts as Vision-Language Programs

Antonia Wüst, Wolfgang Stammer, Hikaru Shindo +3

Vision-Language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on multimodal tasks but often fail at systematic visual reasoning tasks, leading to inconsistent or illogical outputs. Neur…

cs.CV2025

STORM: Segment, Track, and Object Re-Localization from a Single Image

Yu Deng, Teng Cao, Hikaru Shindo +3

Accurate 6D pose estimation and tracking are core capabilities for physical AI systems, yet real-world deployment remains brittle and labor-intensive. Many pipelines rely on CAD mo…

cs.LG2025

Human-Allied Relational Reinforcement Learning

Fateme Golivand Darvishvand, Hikaru Shindo, Sahil Sidheekh +2

Reinforcement learning (RL) has experienced a second wind in the past decade. While incredibly successful in images and videos, these systems still operate within the realm of prop…

cs.LG2025

ActivationReasoning: Logical Reasoning in Latent Activation Spaces

Lukas Helff, Ruben Härle, Wolfgang Stammer +6

Large language models (LLMs) excel at generating fluent text, but their internal reasoning remains opaque and difficult to control. Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) make hidden activatio…

cs.CV2025

ART: Adaptive Relation Tuning for Generalized Relation Prediction

Gopika Sudhakaran, Hikaru Shindo, Patrick Schramowski +3

Visual relation detection (VRD) is the task of identifying the relationships between objects in a scene. VRD models trained solely on relation detection data struggle to generalize…

cs.LG2024

BlendRL: A Framework for Merging Symbolic and Neural Policy Learning

Hikaru Shindo, Quentin Delfosse, Devendra Singh Dhami +1

Humans can leverage both symbolic reasoning and intuitive reactions. In contrast, reinforcement learning policies are typically encoded in either opaque systems like neural network…

cs.AI2024

EXPIL: Explanatory Predicate Invention for Learning in Games

Jingyuan Sha, Hikaru Shindo, Quentin Delfosse +2

Reinforcement learning (RL) has proven to be a powerful tool for training agents that excel in various games. However, the black-box nature of neural network models often hinders o…

cs.LG2024

DeiSAM: Segment Anything with Deictic Prompting

Hikaru Shindo, Manuel Brack, Gopika Sudhakaran +3

Large-scale, pre-trained neural networks have demonstrated strong capabilities in various tasks, including zero-shot image segmentation. To identify concrete objects in complex sce…

cs.AI2023★ 1 cited

Learning by Self-Explaining

Wolfgang Stammer, Felix Friedrich, David Steinmann +3

Much of explainable AI research treats explanations as a means for model inspection. Yet, this neglects findings from human psychology that describe the benefit of self-explanation…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Learning Differentiable Logic Programs for Abstract Visual Reasoning

Hikaru Shindo, Viktor Pfanschilling, Devendra Singh Dhami +1

Visual reasoning is essential for building intelligent agents that understand the world and perform problem-solving beyond perception. Differentiable forward reasoning has been dev…

cs.AI2023

V-LoL: A Diagnostic Dataset for Visual Logical Learning

Lukas Helff, Wolfgang Stammer, Hikaru Shindo +2

Despite the successes of recent developments in visual AI, different shortcomings still exist; from missing exact logical reasoning, to abstract generalization abilities, to unders…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

Interpretable and Explainable Logical Policies via Neurally Guided Symbolic Abstraction

Quentin Delfosse, Hikaru Shindo, Devendra Dhami +1

The limited priors required by neural networks make them the dominating choice to encode and learn policies using reinforcement learning (RL). However, they are also black-boxes, m…

cs.AI2022

Neural Meta-Symbolic Reasoning and Learning

Zihan Ye, Hikaru Shindo, Devendra Singh Dhami +1

Deep neural learning uses an increasing amount of computation and data to solve very specific problems. By stark contrast, human minds solve a wide range of problems using a fixed…

cs.AI2022

LogicRank: Logic Induced Reranking for Generative Text-to-Image Systems

Björn Deiseroth, Patrick Schramowski, Hikaru Shindo +2

Text-to-image models have recently achieved remarkable success with seemingly accurate samples in photo-realistic quality. However as state-of-the-art language models still struggl…

cs.AI2021

Neuro-Symbolic Forward Reasoning

Hikaru Shindo, Devendra Singh Dhami, Kristian Kersting

Reasoning is an essential part of human intelligence and thus has been a long-standing goal in artificial intelligence research. With the recent success of deep learning, incorpora…

cs.AI2021★ 3 cited

Differentiable Inductive Logic Programming for Structured Examples

Hikaru Shindo, Masaaki Nishino, Akihiro Yamamoto

The differentiable implementation of logic yields a seamless combination of symbolic reasoning and deep neural networks. Recent research, which has developed a differentiable frame…