Publications

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ijcai/OntiverosGGMD25,

title = {Grounding Methods for Neural-Symbolic AI},

author = {Rodrigo Castellano Ontiveros and Francesco Giannini and Marco Gori and Giuseppe Marra and Michelangelo Diligenti},

url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/535},

doi = {10.24963/IJCAI.2025/535},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on 

 Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2025, Montreal, Canada, August 16-22, 

 2025},

pages = {4806\textendash4814},

publisher = {ijcai.org},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/aaai/SmetVRM25,

title = {Relational Neurosymbolic Markov Models},

author = {Lennert De Smet and Gabriele Venturato and Luc De Raedt and Giuseppe Marra},

editor = {Toby Walsh and Julie Shah and Zico Kolter},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v39i15.33777},

doi = {10.1609/AAAI.V39I15.33777},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {AAAI-25, Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial 

 Intelligence, February 25 - March 4, 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA},

pages = {16181\textendash16189},

publisher = {AAAI Press},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/aaai/DebotVMR25,

title = {Neurosymbolic Reinforcement Learning: Playing MiniHack with Probabilistic 

 Logic Shields},

author = {David Debot and Gabriele Venturato and Giuseppe Marra and Luc De Raedt},

editor = {Toby Walsh and Julie Shah and Zico Kolter},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v39i28.35349},

doi = {10.1609/AAAI.V39I28.35349},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {AAAI-25, Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial 

 Intelligence, February 25 - March 4, 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA},

pages = {29631\textendash29633},

publisher = {AAAI Press},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/iclr/DominiciBGGML25,

title = {Counterfactual Concept Bottleneck Models},

author = {Gabriele Dominici and Pietro Barbiero and Francesco Giannini and Martin Gjoreski and Giuseppe Marra and Marc Langheinrich},

url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=w7pMjyjsKN},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 

 ICLR 2025, Singapore, April 24-28, 2025},

publisher = {OpenReview.net},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/iclr/DominiciBZTGML25,

title = {Causal Concept Graph Models: Beyond Causal Opacity in Deep Learning},

author = {Gabriele Dominici and Pietro Barbiero and Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga and Alberto Termine and Martin Gjoreski and Giuseppe Marra and Marc Langheinrich},

url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=lmKJ1b6PaL},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 

 ICLR 2025, Singapore, April 24-28, 2025},

publisher = {OpenReview.net},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/aaai/Marra24,

title = {From Statistical Relational to Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence},

author = {Giuseppe Marra},

editor = {Michael J. Wooldridge and Jennifer G. Dy and Sriraam Natarajan},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i20.30294},

doi = {10.1609/AAAI.V38I20.30294},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 

 2024, Thirty-Sixth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial 

 Intelligence, IAAI 2024, Fourteenth Symposium on Educational Advances 

 in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2014, February 20-27, 2024, Vancouver, 

 Canada},

pages = {22678},

publisher = {AAAI Press},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ida/KikajMR24,

title = {Subgraph Mining for Graph Neural Networks},

author = {Adem Kikaj and Giuseppe Marra and Luc De Raedt},

editor = {Ioanna Miliou and Nico Piatkowski and Panagiotis Papapetrou},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58547-0_12},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-58547-0_12},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XXII - 22nd International 

 Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2024, Stockholm, Sweden, 

 April 24-26, 2024, Proceedings, Part I},

volume = {14641},

pages = {141\textendash152},

publisher = {Springer},

series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/nesy/JiaoRM24,

title = {Valid Text-to-SQL Generation with Unification-Based DeepStochLog},

author = {Ying Jiao and Luc De Raedt and Giuseppe Marra},

editor = {Tarek R. Besold and Artur Garcez and Ernesto Jim\'{e}nez-Ruiz and Roberto Confalonieri and Pranava Madhyastha and Benedikt Wagner},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71167-1_17},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-71167-1_17},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning - 18th International Conference, 

 NeSy 2024, Barcelona, Spain, September 9-12, 2024, Proceedings, Part 

 I},

volume = {14979},

pages = {312\textendash330},

publisher = {Springer},

series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/nips/DebotBGCDM24,

title = {Interpretable Concept-Based Memory Reasoning},

author = {David Debot and Pietro Barbiero and Francesco Giannini and Gabriele Ciravegna and Michelangelo Diligenti and Giuseppe Marra},

editor = {Amir Globersons and Lester Mackey and Danielle Belgrave and Angela Fan and Ulrich Paquet and Jakub M. Tomczak and Cheng Zhang},

url = {http://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/hash/223df9b793a8b384bf38b963e35e2cac-Abstract-Conference.html},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference 

 on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, NeurIPS 2024, Vancouver, 

 BC, Canada, December 10 - 15, 2024},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/nips/BarbieroGCDM24,

title = {Relational Concept Bottleneck Models},

author = {Pietro Barbiero and Francesco Giannini and Gabriele Ciravegna and Michelangelo Diligenti and Giuseppe Marra},

editor = {Amir Globersons and Lester Mackey and Danielle Belgrave and Angela Fan and Ulrich Paquet and Jakub M. Tomczak and Cheng Zhang},

url = {http://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/hash/8deff86036ee6a73cda883dc7d2d6b07-Abstract-Conference.html},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference 

 on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, NeurIPS 2024, Vancouver, 

 BC, Canada, December 10 - 15, 2024},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/eccv/DebotM24,

title = {Integrating Local and Global Interpretability for Deep Concept-Based 

 Reasoning Models},

author = {David Debot and Giuseppe Marra},

editor = {Alessio Del Bue and Cristian Canton and Jordi Pont-Tuset and Tatiana Tommasi},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92648-8_14},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-92648-8_14},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Computer Vision - ECCV 2024 Workshops - Milan, Italy, September 

 29-October 4, 2024, Proceedings, Part XXI},

volume = {15643},

pages = {218\textendash232},

publisher = {Springer},

series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/icml/BarbieroCGZMTLP23,

title = {Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning},

author = {Pietro Barbiero and Gabriele Ciravegna and Francesco Giannini and Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga and Lucie Charlotte Magister and Alberto Tonda and Pietro Lio and Fr\'{e}d\'{e}ric Precioso and Mateja Jamnik and Giuseppe Marra},

editor = {Andreas Krause and Emma Brunskill and Kyunghyun Cho and Barbara Engelhardt and Sivan Sabato and Jonathan Scarlett},

url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v202/barbiero23a.html},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2023, 23-29 July 

 2023, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA},

volume = {202},

pages = {1801\textendash1825},

publisher = {PMLR},

series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ijcai/YangMRR23,

title = {Safe Reinforcement Learning via Probabilistic Logic Shields},

author = {Wen-Chi Yang and Giuseppe Marra and Gavin Rens and Luc De Raedt},

url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/637},

doi = {10.24963/IJCAI.2023/637},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on 

 Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2023, 19th-25th August 2023, Macao, 

 SAR, China},

pages = {5739\textendash5749},

publisher = {ijcai.org},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ijcnn/DiligentiGFGFM23,

title = {Enhancing Embedding Representations of Biomedical Data using Logic 

 Knowledge},

author = {Michelangelo Diligenti and Francesco Giannini and Stefano Fioravanti and Caterina Graziani and Moreno Falaschi and Giuseppe Marra},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN54540.2023.10191706},

doi = {10.1109/IJCNN54540.2023.10191706},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2023, Gold 

 Coast, Australia, June 18-23, 2023},

pages = {1\textendash8},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/nesy/BarbieroCGZMTLP23,

title = {Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning},

author = {Pietro Barbiero and Gabriele Ciravegna and Francesco Giannini and Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga and Lucie Charlotte Magister and Alberto Tonda and Pietro Li\`{o} and Fr\'{e}d\'{e}ric Precioso and Mateja Jamnik and Giuseppe Marra},

editor = {Artur S. Garcez and Tarek R. Besold and Marco Gori and Ernesto Jim\'{e}nez-Ruiz},

url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3432/paper41.pdf},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic 

 Learning and Reasoning, La Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy, July 

 3-5, 2023},

volume = {3432},

pages = {422\textendash423},

publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},

series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/nesy/YangMRR23,

title = {Safe Reinforcement Learning via Probabilistic Logic Shields},

author = {Wen-Chi Yang and Giuseppe Marra and Gavin Rens and Luc De Raedt},

editor = {Artur S. Garcez and Tarek R. Besold and Marco Gori and Ernesto Jim\'{e}nez-Ruiz},

url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3432/paper45.pdf},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic 

 Learning and Reasoning, La Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy, July 

 3-5, 2023},

volume = {3432},

pages = {428\textendash429},

publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},

series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/nesy/MisinoMS23,

title = {VAEL: Bridging Variational Autoencoders and Probabilistic Logic 

 Programming},

author = {Eleonora Misino and Giuseppe Marra and Emanuele Sansone},

editor = {Artur S. Garcez and Tarek R. Besold and Marco Gori and Ernesto Jim\'{e}nez-Ruiz},

url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3432/paper48.pdf},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic 

 Learning and Reasoning, La Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy, July 

 3-5, 2023},

volume = {3432},

pages = {434\textendash435},

publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},

series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/uai/SmetMMMKR23,

title = {Neural probabilistic logic programming in discrete-continuous domains},

author = {Lennert De Smet and Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires and Robin Manhaeve and Giuseppe Marra and Angelika Kimmig and Luc De Raedt},

editor = {Robin J. Evans and Ilya Shpitser},

url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v216/de-smet23a.html},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI 2023, July 31 - 4 August 

 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, USA},

volume = {216},

pages = {529\textendash538},

publisher = {PMLR},

series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ofc/MarraFKGCMBCVGK23,

title = {Transforming Subsea Optical Cables into a Giant Network of Environmental 

 Sensors},

author = {Giuseppe Marra and D. M. Fairweather and Valey Kamalov and P. Gaynor and Mattia Cantono and S. Mulholland and Brian Baptie and J. C. Castellanos and G. Vagenas and J. -O. Gaudron and Jochen Kronj\"{a}ger and I. R. Hill and M. Schioppo and I. Barbeito Edreira and K. A. Burrows and Cecilia Clivati and Davide Calonico and Andrew Curtis},

url = {https://doi.org/10.23919/OFC49934.2023.10116270},

doi = {10.23919/OFC49934.2023.10116270},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2023, 

 San Diego, CA, USA, March 5-9, 2023},

pages = {1\textendash2},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ilp/VermeulenMM23,

title = {An Experimental Overview of Neural-Symbolic Systems},

author = {Arne Vermeulen and Robin Manhaeve and Giuseppe Marra},

editor = {Elena Bellodi and Francesca Alessandra Lisi and Riccardo Zese},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49299-0_9},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-49299-0_9},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Inductive Logic Programming - 32nd International Conference, ILP 

 2023, Bari, Italy, November 13-15, 2023, Proceedings},

volume = {14363},

pages = {124\textendash138},

publisher = {Springer},

series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/aaai/WintersMMR22,

title = {DeepStochLog: Neural Stochastic Logic Programming},

author = {Thomas Winters and Giuseppe Marra and Robin Manhaeve and Luc De Raedt},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v36i9.21248},

doi = {10.1609/AAAI.V36I9.21248},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 

 2022, Thirty-Fourth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial 

 Intelligence, IAAI 2022, The Twelveth Symposium on Educational Advances 

 in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2022 Virtual Event, February 22 

 - March 1, 2022},

pages = {10090\textendash10100},

publisher = {AAAI Press},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/nips/MisinoMS22,

title = {VAEL: Bridging Variational Autoencoders and Probabilistic Logic 

 Programming},

author = {Eleonora Misino and Giuseppe Marra and Emanuele Sansone},

editor = {Sanmi Koyejo and S. Mohamed and A. Agarwal and Danielle Belgrave and K. Cho and A. Oh},

url = {http://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2022/hash/1e38b2a0b77541b14a3315c99697b835-Abstract-Conference.html},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference 

 on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, NeurIPS 2022, New Orleans, 

 LA, USA, November 28 - December 9, 2022},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/nips/ZarlengaBCMGDSP22,

title = {Concept Embedding Models: Beyond the Accuracy-Explainability Trade-Off},

author = {Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga and Pietro Barbiero and Gabriele Ciravegna and Giuseppe Marra and Francesco Giannini and Michelangelo Diligenti and Zohreh Shams and Fr\'{e}d\'{e}ric Precioso and Stefano Melacci and Adrian Weller and Pietro Li\'{o} and Mateja Jamnik},

editor = {Sanmi Koyejo and S. Mohamed and A. Agarwal and Danielle Belgrave and K. Cho and A. Oh},

url = {http://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2022/hash/867c06823281e506e8059f5c13a57f75-Abstract-Conference.html},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference 

 on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, NeurIPS 2022, New Orleans, 

 LA, USA, November 28 - December 9, 2022},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}