Neuro-Symbolic pathways to AGI: compositional reasoning and trustworthy deployment
摘要
Large-scale neural architectures exhibit systematic failures in compositional generalization and formal verifiability despite remarkable pattern recognition capabilities. This paper introduces the Neural-Symbolic-Verification (NSV) Loop–a functional decomposition framework–and uses it to systematically survey neuro-symbolic integration as a principled pathway toward artificial general intelligence. The NSV Loop organizes hybrid architectures through four computational stages structuring perception, symbolic execution, verification, and feedback. We operationalize the Grounding-Instructibility-Alignment (G-I-A) framework for production assessment and demonstrate quantifiable advantages: perfect compositional accuracy on SCAN (100% vs 13.8% neural baseline, length split), sample efficiency gains exceeding 10