arXiv:2601.20784cs.AIcs.AR2026-01被引 3

提出REASON框架,加速神经符号智能中的概率逻辑推理。

REASON: Accelerating Probabilistic Logical Reasoning for Scalable Neuro-Symbolic Intelligence

  • 用统一有向图表示抽象符号与概率模型结构
  • 在28nm芯片上实现12-50倍速度提升和310-681倍能效优化
  • 适合需要实时推理的智能系统开发人员使用

神经符号人工智能将神经感知与符号推理结合,实现数据高效、可解释且鲁棒的智能,超越纯神经模型。尽管该范式在推理、规划和验证等领域表现优异,但部署受限于符号与概率推断的严重低效。通过对典型神经符号工作负载的系统分析,我们识别出概率逻辑推理是主要瓶颈,其特征包括控制流不规则、算术强度低、内存访问未合并及在CPU/GPU上硬件利用率差。本文提出REASON,一种面向神经符号智能中概率逻辑推理的集成加速框架。REASON引入统一的有向无环图表示,捕捉符号与概率模型的共性结构,并结合自适应剪枝与正则化。在架构层面,采用可重构的树状处理结构,优化不规则遍历、符号推导与概率聚合;在系统层面,通过可编程接口与GPU流多处理器紧密集成,实现多层次流水线协同执行。在六个神经符号工作负载上评估,REASON相比桌面与边缘GPU实现12-50倍加速和310-681倍能效提升(基于TSMC 28 nm节点)。该系统支持实时推理,端到端任务耗时0.8秒,面积仅6 mm²,功耗2.12 W,证明针对概率逻辑推理的针对性加速对实现实用化与可扩展神经符号智能至关重要,确立了REASON作为下一代认知智能的基础系统架构。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Neuro-symbolic AI systems integrate neural perception with symbolic reasoning to enable data-efficient, interpretable, and robust intelligence beyond purely neural models. Although this compositional paradigm has shown superior performance in domains such as reasoning, planning, and verification, its deployment remains challenging due to severe inefficiencies in symbolic and probabilistic inference. Through systematic analysis of representative neuro-symbolic workloads, we identify probabilistic logical reasoning as the inefficiency bottleneck, characterized by irregular control flow, low arithmetic intensity, uncoalesced memory accesses, and poor hardware utilization on CPUs and GPUs. This paper presents REASON, an integrated acceleration framework for probabilistic logical reasoning in neuro-symbolic AI. REASON introduces a unified directed acyclic graph representation that captures common structure across symbolic and probabilistic models, coupled with adaptive pruning and regularization. At the architecture level, REASON features a reconfigurable, tree-based processing fabric optimized for irregular traversal, symbolic deduction, and probabilistic aggregation. At the system level, REASON is tightly integrated with GPU streaming multiprocessors through a programmable interface and multi-level pipeline that efficiently orchestrates compositional execution. Evaluated across six neuro-symbolic workloads, REASON achieves 12-50x speedup and 310-681x energy efficiency over desktop and edge GPUs under TSMC 28 nm node. REASON enables real-time probabilistic logical reasoning, completing end-to-end tasks in 0.8 s with 6 mm2 area and 2.12 W power, demonstrating that targeted acceleration of probabilistic logical reasoning is critical for practical and scalable neuro-symbolic AI and positioning REASON as a foundational system architecture for next-generation cognitive intelligence.

神经符号推理加速低功耗

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