Neuro-symbolic integration of symbolic and subsymbolic techniques represents a fast-growing AI trend aimed at mitigating the issues of neural networks in terms of decision processes, reasoning, and interpretability. Several state-of-the-art neuro-symbolic approaches aim at improving performance, most of them focusing on proving their effectiveness in terms of raw predictive performance and/or reasoning capabilities. Meanwhile, few efforts have been devoted to increasing model trustworthiness, interpretability, and efficiency - mostly due to the complexity of measuring effectively improvements in terms of trustworthiness and interpretability. This is why here we analyse and discuss the need for ad-hoc trustworthiness metrics for neurosymbolic techniques. We focus on two popular paradigms mixing subsymbolic computation and symbolic knowledge, namely: (i) symbolic knowledge extraction (SKE), aimed at mapping subsymbolic models into human-interpretable knowledge bases; and (ii) symbolic knowledge injection (SKI), aimed at forcing subsymbolic models to adhere to a given symbolic knowledge. We first emphasise the need for assessing neuro-symbolic approaches from a trustworthiness perspective, highlighting the research challenges linked with this evaluation and the need for ad-hoc trust definitions. Then we summarise recent developments in SKE and SKI metrics focusing specifically on several trustworthiness pillars such as interpretability, efficiency, and robustness of neuro-symbolic methods. Finally, we highlight open research opportunities towards reliable and flexible trustworthiness metrics for neuro-symbolic integration.

Andrea Agiollo, A.O. (2023). Measuring Trustworthiness in Neuro-Symbolic Integration. Warsaw : Polish Information Processing Society [10.15439/2023F6019].

Measuring Trustworthiness in Neuro-Symbolic Integration

Andrea Agiollo;Andrea Omicini
2023

Abstract

Neuro-symbolic integration of symbolic and subsymbolic techniques represents a fast-growing AI trend aimed at mitigating the issues of neural networks in terms of decision processes, reasoning, and interpretability. Several state-of-the-art neuro-symbolic approaches aim at improving performance, most of them focusing on proving their effectiveness in terms of raw predictive performance and/or reasoning capabilities. Meanwhile, few efforts have been devoted to increasing model trustworthiness, interpretability, and efficiency - mostly due to the complexity of measuring effectively improvements in terms of trustworthiness and interpretability. This is why here we analyse and discuss the need for ad-hoc trustworthiness metrics for neurosymbolic techniques. We focus on two popular paradigms mixing subsymbolic computation and symbolic knowledge, namely: (i) symbolic knowledge extraction (SKE), aimed at mapping subsymbolic models into human-interpretable knowledge bases; and (ii) symbolic knowledge injection (SKI), aimed at forcing subsymbolic models to adhere to a given symbolic knowledge. We first emphasise the need for assessing neuro-symbolic approaches from a trustworthiness perspective, highlighting the research challenges linked with this evaluation and the need for ad-hoc trust definitions. Then we summarise recent developments in SKE and SKI metrics focusing specifically on several trustworthiness pillars such as interpretability, efficiency, and robustness of neuro-symbolic methods. Finally, we highlight open research opportunities towards reliable and flexible trustworthiness metrics for neuro-symbolic integration.
2023
Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS 2023)
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Andrea Agiollo, A.O. (2023). Measuring Trustworthiness in Neuro-Symbolic Integration. Warsaw : Polish Information Processing Society [10.15439/2023F6019].
Andrea Agiollo, Andrea Omicini
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