Title: Visual Perceptual to Conceptual First-Order Rule Learning Networks
Primary area: neurosymbolic & hybrid AI systems (physics-informed, logic & formal reasoning, etc.)
Keywords: Neuro-Symbolic Method, Inductive Logic Programming, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Abstract: Learning rules plays a crucial role in deep learning, particularly in explainable artificial intelligence and enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models. While existing rule learning methods are primarily designed for symbolic data, learning rules from image data without supporting image labels and automatically inventing predicates remains a challenge. In this paper, we tackle these inductive rule learning problems from images with a framework called γILP, which provides a fully differentiable pipeline from entity substitution to rule structure induction. Extensive experiments demonstrate that γILP achieves strong performance not only on classical symbolic relational datasets but also on relational image data and pure image datasets, such as Kandinsky patterns.