NeSy 2021
Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 19 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 14 papers were accepted for this volume.

• A New Concept for Explaining Graph Neural Networks (short paper) 1-5
  Anna Himmelhuber, Sonja Zillner, Stephan Grimm, Martin Ringsquandl, Mitchell Joblin, Thomas Runkler
• Neuro-Symbolic Constraint Programming for Structured Prediction (short paper) 6-14
  Paolo Dragone, Stefano Teso, Andrea Passerini
• pix2rule: End-to-end Neuro-symbolic Rule Learning 15-56
  Nuri Cingillioglu, Alessandra Russo
• Zero-shot Multi-Domain Dialog State Tracking Using Prescriptive Rules 57-66
  Edgar Altszyler, Pablo Brusco, Nikoletta Basiou, John Byrnes, Dimitra Vergyri
• Backpropagating through Markov Logic Networks 67-81
  Patrick Betz, Mathias Niepert, Pasquale Minervini, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
• Elite BackProp: Training Sparse Interpretable Neurons 82-93
  Theodoros Kasioumis, Joe Townsend, Hiroya Inakoshi
• Neural Semirings 94-103
  Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires
• Explainable Diabetic Retinopathy Classification Based on Neural-Symbolic Learning 104-114
  Se-In Jang, Michaël J. A. Girard, Alexandre H. Thiery
• Extending Real Logic with Aggregate Functions 115-125
  Samy Badreddine, Michael Spranger
• An Insect-Inspired Randomly, Weighted Neural Network with Random Fourier Features For Neuro-Symbolic Relational Learning 126-142
  Jinyung Hong, Theodore P. Pavlic
• Using Neural Networks to Control Glut in the Active Logic Machine 143-153
  Justin D. Brody, Bobby Austin, Omar Khater, Christopher J. Maxey, Matthew D. Goldberg, Timothy Clausner, Darsana Josyula, Don Perlis
• Learning Arithmetic from Handwritten Images with the Aid of Symbols 154-164
  Daniel L. Silver, Ahmed Galila
• RecT: A Recursive Transformer Architecture for Generalizable Mathematical Reasoning 165-175
  Rohan Deshpande, Jerry Chen, Isabelle Lee
• Coherent and Consistent Relational Transfer Learning with Auto-encoders 176-192
  Harald Strömfelt, Luke Dickens, Artur d'Avila Garcez, Alessandra Russo