Ontology-Mediated Neurosymbolic Constraint Acquisition from Multiple Stakeholders
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arXiv:2609.29876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neurosymbolic research typically assumes a pre-existing symbolic specification, leaving the upstream challenge of acquiring and formalizing requirements and constraints largely unaddressed. We present an architecture that fills this gap by using an OWL configuration ontology to mediate between neural constraint sources and downstream consumers. In this framework, LLM assistants elicit soft stakeholder preferences, while hardware specifications define hard physical and engineering limits. The ontology unifies these heterogeneous inputs, leverages
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.29876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neurosymbolic research typically assumes a pre-existing symbolic specification, leaving the upstream challenge of acquiring and formalizing requirements and constraints largely unaddressed.
- We present an architecture that fills this gap by using an OWL configuration ontology to mediate between neural constraint sources and downstream consumers.
- In this framework, LLM assistants elicit soft stakeholder preferences, while hardware specifications define hard physical and engineering limits.
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