Summary of A Theory Of Formalisms For Representing Knowledge, by Heng Zhang and Guifei Jiang and Donghui Quan
A Theory of Formalisms for Representing Knowledge
by Heng Zhang, Guifei Jiang, Donghui Quan
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computational Complexity (cs.CC); Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper proposes a general framework for capturing various knowledge representation formalisms, aiming to address the longstanding debate between declarative and procedural approaches. The framework reveals a family of universal knowledge representation formalisms, demonstrating that all pairwise intertranslatable formalisms are recursively isomorphic. This implies that, up to offline compilation, all universal or equally expressive formalisms are equivalent, providing a partial answer to the dispute. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper tries to solve a big problem in Artificial Intelligence (AI). There’s been a long debate about how to represent knowledge in AI. Some people think you should use rules and declarations, while others think you should use procedures and learning from data. The researchers came up with a new way to look at all these different approaches, which shows that they’re actually very similar once you get past the surface level. This helps us understand how we can represent knowledge in AI better. |
