You could achieve a similar result to that of a neuro-symbolic system solely using neural networks, but the training data would have to be immense. Moreover, there’s always the risk that outlier cases, for which there is little or no training data, are answered poorly. In contrast, this hybrid approach boosts a high data efficiency, in some instances requiring just 1% of training data other methods need. “One of the reasons why humans are able to work with so few examples of a new thing is that we are able to break down an object into its parts and properties and then to reason about them. Many of today’s neural networks try to go straight from inputs (e.g. images of elephants) to outputs (e.g. the label “elephant”), with a black box in between.
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