Summary of A Fast Convoluted Story: Scaling Probabilistic Inference For Integer Arithmetic, by Lennert De Smet and Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires
A Fast Convoluted Story: Scaling Probabilistic Inference for Integer Arithmetic
by Lennert De Smet, Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper addresses the limitations of neurosymbolic AI techniques, which have been successful for toy problems but struggle with real-world applications. The authors identify two key issues: probabilistic inference is computationally hard (#P-hard), and gradients are challenging to construct due to the discrete nature of integers. To overcome these challenges, they reformulate linear arithmetic over integer-valued random variables as tensor manipulations using modern deep learning libraries. This approach leverages the fast Fourier transform in the log-domain, allowing for differentiable data structures and gradient-based learning. The authors demonstrate significant improvements in inference and learning times through experimental validation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper makes neurosymbolic AI better by solving two big problems. Right now, it’s hard to do complex calculations (probabilistic inference) and it’s tricky to figure out how to learn from data (gradients). To fix this, the researchers turn linear math into something called tensor manipulations that can be used with deep learning tools. This helps us learn faster and more accurately. The authors show that their idea works really well in practice. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Inference
