A boxology of design patterns for hybrid learning and reasoning systems

Abstract

We propose a set of design patterns to describe a large variety of systems that combine statistical techniques from machine learning with symbolic techniques from knowledge representation. As in other areas of computer science (knowledge engineering, software engineering, process mining), such design patterns help to systematize the literature, clarify which combinations of techniques serve which purposes, and encourage re-use of software components. We have validated our compositional design patterns against a large body of recent literature.</p