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7 papers

cs.AI2026

Narration-of-Thought: Inference-Time Scaffolding for Defeasible Ethical Reasoning in Large Language Models

Patrick Cooper, Alvaro Velasquez

Standard chain-of-thought on moral dilemmas exhibits two failure modes: stakeholder collapse (the trace names at most one party with a stake in the outcome) and uncertainty suppres…

cs.AI2026

DeFAb: A Verifiable Benchmark for Defeasible Abduction in Foundation Models

Patrick Cooper, Alvaro Velasquez

A rule-based logic solver resolves every instance in our benchmark in under 50 microseconds with 100% accuracy; the best frontier language model reaches 65% at best and drops to 23…

cs.AI2026

ANSR-DT: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Adaptive and Explainable Digital Twins

Safayat Bin Hakim, Muhammad Adil, Alvaro Velasquez +1

Digital twins are increasingly used to monitor and optimize industrial systems, yet many existing frameworks remain difficult to interpret, slow to adapt, and limited in their abil…

cs.AI2026

ANNEAL: Adapting LLM Agents via Governed Symbolic Patch Learning

Safayat Bin Hakim, Keyan Guo, Wenkai Tan +3

LLM-based agents can recover from individual execution errors, yet they repeatedly fail on the same fault when the underlying process knowledge--operator schemas, preconditions, an…

cs.CR2026

Neuro-Symbolic AI for Cybersecurity: State of the Art, Challenges, and Opportunities

Safayat Bin Hakim, Muhammad Adil, Alvaro Velasquez +2

Cybersecurity demands both rapid pattern recognition and deliberative reasoning, yet purely neural or purely symbolic approaches each address only one side of this duality. Neuro-S…

cs.AI2025

SymRAG: Efficient Neuro-Symbolic Retrieval Through Adaptive Query Routing

Safayat Bin Hakim, Muhammad Adil, Alvaro Velasquez +1

Current Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems use uniform processing, causing inefficiency as simple queries consume resources similar to complex multi-hop tasks. We present SymRA…