Enhancing AI's Reasoning with Active Retrieval and Monte Carlo Tree Search
A clear explanation of AR-MCTS, a framework that improves multimodal reasoning by combining active retrieval, Monte Carlo Tree Search, and process rewards.
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Baylor University
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Research notes on neurosymbolic learning, symbolic reasoning, knowledge distillation, and explainable AI.
A clear explanation of AR-MCTS, a framework that improves multimodal reasoning by combining active retrieval, Monte Carlo Tree Search, and process rewards.
A practical explanation of how Explainable AI and Neurosymbolic AI differ, where they overlap, and why both matter for trustworthy systems.
A guide to symbolic knowledge distillation for LLMs, including direct, multilevel, and reinforcement-learning approaches.
A readable reflection on Ron Brachman's Northeastern lecture about why AI systems need common sense before they can be trusted to act autonomously.
A more grounded look at Vinod Khosla's TED 2024 vision for technology-driven possible tomorrows between 2035 and 2049.
A readable explanation of Temporal ID3, a decision-tree learning method that uses interval temporal logic to classify timelines instead of static records.
A readable explanation of a general pipeline for turning multivariate time series into timelines and extracting temporal logical rules from them.
An overview of descriptive and predictive rule learning, association rules, decision lists, and covering algorithms.
A practical look at why symbolic regression can be a strong choice when data is scarce, interpretability matters, and overfitting is a constant risk.
A readable explanation of how Transformers can infer symbolic recurrence relations from integer and float sequences, then use those formulas to extrapolate.
A readable explanation of how graph networks can learn physical interactions, expose force-like messages, and support symbolic law discovery.
A readable look at how symbolic regression can rediscover physical laws directly from experimental data, from simple oscillators to chaotic double pendulums.
Learn how inductive biases, sparse latent spaces, graph networks, and symbolic regression extract equations from deep models.
Learn how symbolic regression creates expressive split rules for compact, interpretable decision-tree classifiers.
A practical explanation of symbolic knowledge representations and where that knowledge can be embedded inside neuro-symbolic AI systems.
Review major neuro-symbolic AI approaches that connect deep learning, symbolic knowledge, explainability, and hybrid reasoning.
Learn about the RVS framework for explainable AI, including feature, design, representation, training-data, and stakeholder explanations.
Explore how neuro-symbolic AI can improve interpretability, fairness, privacy, safety, and trustworthy reasoning.
Learn how decision trees can optimize for shorter explanations by reducing the number of distinct attributes used in prediction rules.
Explore what generative AI needs to become trustworthy, including reasoning, provenance, ethics, context, and symbolic knowledge.
Learn how neurosymbolic reinforcement learning combines neural learning, symbolic reasoning, and planning for interpretable and safer agents.
Explore explainable AI in cybersecurity for intrusion detection, malware analysis, anomaly detection, risk scoring, debugging, and model trust.
An introduction to neurosymbolic AI and how neural networks and symbolic reasoning support explainability, data efficiency, and trustworthy decisions.