What are neurosymbolic AI approaches?

 title: 'Fig. 1: Comparison of the strengths of humans and statistical ML machines, illustrating the complementary ways they generalise in human-AI teaming scenarios. Humans excel at compositionality, common sense, abstraction from a few examples, and robustness. Statistical ML excels at large-scale data and inference efficiency, inference correctness, handling data complexity, and the universality of approximation. Overgeneralisation biases remain challenging for both humans and machines. Collaborative and explainable mechanisms are key to achieving alignment in human-AI teaming. See Table 3 for a complete overview of the properties of machine methods, including instance-based and analytical machines.'

Neurosymbolic AI approaches aim to combine statistical and analytical models, enabling robust, data-driven models for sub-symbolic parts while also facilitating explicit compositional modeling for overarching schemes. These systems strive to incorporate the strengths of neural networks and symbolic reasoning, thereby enhancing generalization capabilities and interpretability in AI systems.

Challenges in neurosymbolic AI include defining provable generalization properties and establishing effective learning structures that balance expressivity and computational efficiency. Recent research has explored richer formalisms to improve these models, focusing on compositionality and how generalizations can be effectively composed and applied across varying contexts[1].