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New Moose method enhances neuro-symbolic learning for OWL 2 EL ontologies

Researchers have developed Moose, a novel neuro-symbolic learning method designed for the OWL 2 EL profile, which is utilized in large-scale ontologies like Gene Ontology and SNOMED CT. Unlike previous methods that handle propositional theories or Datalog, Moose addresses reasoning-shortcut awareness within ontology settings. The method compiles OWL EL TBoxes and ABoxes into Sentential Decision Diagrams, enabling differentiable weighted-model-counting and overcoming expressivity limitations with closure clauses for partial supervision. Moose demonstrates improved performance over existing baselines on tasks involving latent concept learning, as evaluated on MNIST-with-ontology and pizzaiolo datasets, and provides the first reasoning-shortcut analysis in an OWL EL context. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Olga Mashkova, Asaad Mohammedsaleh, Fernando Zhapa-Camacho, Robert Hoehndorf ·

    Moose: Latent concept learning with reasoning-shortcut awareness in $\mathcal{EL}^{++}$

    arXiv:2608.12961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The OWL 2 EL profile is used in some of the largest production ontologies, including the Gene Ontology and SNOMED CT. Existing neuro-symbolic (NeSy) learning methods accept propositional theories or Datalog, and reasoning-shortcut (…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Moose: Latent concept learning with reasoning-shortcut awareness in $\mathcal{EL}^{++}$

    The OWL 2 EL profile is used in some of the largest production ontologies, including the Gene Ontology and SNOMED CT. Existing neuro-symbolic (NeSy) learning methods accept propositional theories or Datalog, and reasoning-shortcut (RS) awareness has not been investigated in ontol…