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Joseph Cotnareanu

5 accepted papers

2026

A Balanced Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Commonsense Abductive Logic

ICLR 2026poster

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive formal reasoning abilities, they often break down when problems require complex proof planning. One promising approach for improving LLM reasoning abilities involves translating problems into formal logic and using a logic solver. Al…

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2026

Abductive Reasoning with Probabilistic Commonsense

ICML 2026poster

Recent efforts to improve the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have focused on integrating formal logic solvers within neurosymbolic frameworks. A key challenge is that formal solvers lack commonsense world knowledge, preventing them from making reasoning steps that humans find ob…

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2025

InnerThoughts: Disentangling Representations and Predictions in Large Language Models

AISTATS 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) contain substantial factual knowledge which is commonly elicited by multiple-choice question-answering prompts. Internally, such models process the prompt through multiple transformer layers, building varying representations of the problem within its hidden states. Ultim…

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2025

Is the acquisition worth the cost? Surrogate losses for Consistent Two-stage Classifiers

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a spectrum of foundation models, covering a broad range of capabilities and costs. Often, we effectively use foundation models as feature generators and train classifiers that use the outputs of these models to make decisions. In this paper, we consider a…

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2024

HardCore Generation: Generating Hard UNSAT Problems for Data Augmentation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Efficiently determining the satisfiability of a boolean equation --- known as the SAT problem for brevity --- is crucial in various industrial problems. Recently, the advent of deep learning methods has introduced significant potential for enhancing SAT solving. However, a major barrier to the adva…

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