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Achille Fokoue

12 accepted papers

2026

SPIRAL: Symbolic LLM Planning via Grounded and Reflective Search

AAAI 2026technical

Large Language Models (LLMs) often falter at complex planning tasks that require exploration and self-correction, as their linear reasoning process struggles to recover from early mistakes. While search algorithms like Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) can explore alternatives, they are often ineffecti

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Shedding Light on Time Series Classification using Interpretability Gated Networks

ICLR 2025poster

In time-series classification, interpretable models can bring additional insights but be outperformed by deep models since human-understandable features have limited expressivity and flexibility. In this work, we present InterpGN, a framework that integrates an interpretable model and a deep neural…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

CHRONOS: A Schema-Based Event Understanding and Prediction System

AAAI 2024technical

Chronological and Hierarchical Reasoning Over Naturally Occurring Schemas (CHRONOS) is a system that combines language model-based natural language processing with symbolic knowledge representations to analyze and make predictions about newsworthy events. CHRONOS consists of an event-centric informa…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2023

An Ensemble Approach for Automated Theorem Proving Based on Efficient Name Invariant Graph Neural Representations

IJCAI 2023poster

Using reinforcement learning for automated theorem proving has recently received much attention. Current approaches use representations of logical statements that often rely on the names used in these statements and, as a result, the models are generally not transferable from one domain to another.…

2023

Laziness Is a Virtue When It Comes to Compositionality in Neural Semantic Parsing

ACL 2023long

Nearly all general-purpose neural semantic parsers generate logical forms in a strictly top-down autoregressive fashion. Though such systems have achieved impressive results across a variety of datasets and domains, recent works have called into question whether they are ultimately limited in their…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2023

Learning Symbolic Rules over Abstract Meaning Representations for Textual Reinforcement Learning

ACL 2023long

Text-based reinforcement learning agents have predominantly been neural network-based models with embeddings-based representation, learning uninterpretable policies that often do not generalize well to unseen games. On the other hand, neuro-symbolic methods, specifically those that leverage an inter…

2023

MISMATCH: Fine-grained Evaluation of Machine-generated Text with Mismatch Error Types

ACL 2023findings

With the growing interest in large language models, the need for evaluating the quality of machine text compared to reference (typically human-generated) text has become focal attention. Most recent works focus either on task-specific evaluation metrics or study the properties of machine-generated t…

2023

Self-Supervised Rule Learning to Link Text Segments to Relational Elements of Structured Knowledge

EMNLP 2023long findings

We present a neuro-symbolic approach to self-learn rules that serve as interpretable knowledge to perform relation linking in knowledge base question answering systems. These rules define natural language text predicates as a weighted mixture of knowledge base paths. The weights learned during train…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Weighted Clock Logic Point Process

ICLR 2023poster

Datasets involving multivariate event streams are prevalent in numerous applications. We present a novel framework for modeling temporal point processes called clock logic neural networks (CLNN) which learn weighted clock logic (wCL) formulas as interpretable temporal rules by which some events prom…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2022

A Two-Stage Approach towards Generalization in Knowledge Base Question Answering

EMNLP 2022finding

Most existing approaches for Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) focus on a specific underlying knowledge base either because of inherent assumptions in the approach, or because evaluating it on a different knowledge base requires non-trivial changes. However, many popular knowledge bases share…

Cited by 16SourcePDFScholar
2022

SYGMA: A System for Generalizable and Modular Question Answering Over Knowledge Bases

EMNLP 2022finding

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) involving complex reasoning is emerging as an important research direction. However, most KBQA systems struggle with generalizability, particularly on two dimensions: (a) across multiple knowledge bases, where existing KBQA approaches are typically tuned to a…

2021

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to First-Order Logic Theorem Proving

AAAI 2021technical

Automated theorem provers have traditionally relied on manually tuned heuristics to guide how they perform proof search. Deep reinforcement learning has been proposed as a way to obviate the need for such heuristics, however, its deployment in automated theorem proving remains a challenge. In this p…