neuralogic 0.1.2

PyNeuraLogic is a framework which combines relational and deep learning.

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PyNeuraLogic lets you use Python to write Differentiable Logic Programs

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About

Logic programming is a declarative coding paradigm in which you declare your logical variables and relations between them. These can be further composed into so-called rules that drive the computation. Such a rule set then forms a logic program, and its execution is equivalent to performing logic inference with the rules.

PyNeuralogic, through its NeuraLogic backend, then makes this inference process differentiable which, in turn, makes it equivalent to forward propagation in deep learning. This lets you learn numeric parameters that can be associated with the rules, just like you learn weights in neural networks.

What is this good for?

Many things! For instance - ever heard of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)? Well, a graph happens to be a special case of a logical relation - a binary one to be more exact. Now, at the heart of any GNN model there is a so-called propagation rule for passing 'messages' between the neighboring nodes. Particularly, the representation ('message') of a node X is calculated by aggregating the previous representations of adjacent nodes Y, i.e. those with an edge between X and Y.

Or, a bit more 'formally':

Relation.message2(Var.X) <= (Relation.message1(Var.Y), Relation.edge(Var.X,Var.Y))

...and that's the actual code! Now for a classic learnable GNN layer, you'll want to add some weights, such as

Relation.message2(Var.X)[5,10] <= (Relation.message1(Var.Y)[10,20], Relation.edge(Var.X,Var.Y))

to project your [1,20] input node embeddings ('message1') through a learnable [10,20] layer before the aggregation, and subsequently a [5,10] layer after the aggregation.

If you don't like the default settings, you can of course specify various additional details, such as the particular aggregation and activation functions

R.message2(V.X)[5,10] <= (R.message1(V.Y)[10,20], R.edge(V.X,V.Y)) | [Activation.RELU, Aggregation.AVG]

to instantiate the classic GCN layer specification, which you can directly train now!

How is it different from other GNN frameworks?

Naturally, PyNeuralogic is by no means limited to GNN models, as the expressiveness of relational logic goes much further beyond graphs. Hence, nothing stops you from playing directly with:

• multiple relations and object types
• hypergraphs, nested graphs, relational databases
• relational pattern matching, various subgraph GNNs
• alternative propagation schemes
• inclusion of logical background knowledge
• and more...

In PyNeuraLogic, all these ideas take the same form of simple small logic programs. These are commonly highly transparent and easy to understand, thanks to their declarative nature. Consequently, there is no need to design a zoo of blackbox class names for each small modification of the GNN rule - you code directly at the level of the logical principles here!

The backend engine then creates the underlying differentiable computation (inference) graphs in a fully automated and dynamic fashion, hence you don't have to care about aligning everything into some static (tensor) operations.

How does it perform?

While PyNeuraLogic allows you to easily declare highly expressive models with capabilities far beyond the common GNNs, it does not come at the cost of performance for the basic GNNs either. On the contrary, for a range of common GNN models and applications, such as learning with molecules, PyNeuraLogic is actually considerably faster than the popular GNN frameworks, as demonstrated in our benchmarks.

We hope you'll find the framework useful in designing your own deep relational learning ideas beyond the GNNs! Please let us know if you need some guidance or would like to cooperate!

Getting started

Prerequisites

To use PyNeuraLogic, you need to install the following prerequisites:

Python >= 3.7
Java >= 1.8

Installation

To install PyNeuraLogic's latest release from the PyPI repository, use the following command:

$ pip install neuralogic

Examples

Simple XOR example
Molecular GNNs

Subgraph Patterns
Distinguishing k-regular graphs
Distinguishing non-regular graphs

Papers

Beyond Graph Neural Networks with Lifted Relational Neural Networks Machine Learning Journal, 2021

Lifted Relational Neural Networks Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2018

Lossless compression of structured convolutional models via lifting ICLR, 2021