Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning Shortcuts: Mitigation Strategies and their Limitations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12578v1
• Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:03:23 GMT
• Title: Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning Shortcuts: Mitigation Strategies and their Limitations
• Authors: Emanuele Marconato, Stefano Teso, Andrea Passerini
• Abstract summary: Neuro-symbolic predictors learn a mapping from sub-symbolic inputs to higher-level concepts and then carry out (probabilistic) logical inference on this intermediate representation. This setup is often believed to provide interpretability benefits in that - by virtue of complying with the knowledge - the learned concepts can be better understood by human stakeholders. However, it was recently shown that this setup is affected by reasoning shortcuts whereby predictions attain high accuracy by leveraging concepts with unintended semantics.
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• Abstract: Neuro-symbolic predictors learn a mapping from sub-symbolic inputs to higher-level concepts and then carry out (probabilistic) logical inference on this intermediate representation. This setup offers clear advantages in terms of consistency to symbolic prior knowledge, and is often believed to provide interpretability benefits in that - by virtue of complying with the knowledge - the learned concepts can be better understood by human stakeholders. However, it was recently shown that this setup is affected by reasoning shortcuts whereby predictions attain high accuracy by leveraging concepts with unintended semantics, yielding poor out-of-distribution performance and compromising interpretability. In this short paper, we establish a formal link between reasoning shortcuts and the optima of the loss function, and identify situations in which reasoning shortcuts can arise. Based on this, we discuss limitations of natural mitigation strategies such as reconstruction and concept supervision.

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