Publications

  • An Agentic Framework for Neuro-Symbolic Programming

    Aliakbar Nafar, Chetan Chigurupati, Danial Kamali, Hamid Karimian, Parisa Kordjamshidi
    Submitted to NeSy 2026
    arXiv

  • Extracting Probabilistic Knowledge from Large Language Models for Bayesian Network Parameterization

    Aliakbar Nafar, Kristen Brent Venable, Zijun Cui, Parisa Kordjamshidi
    Submitted to TMLR
    arXiv
    Code

  • Reasoning over Uncertain Text by Generative Large Language Models

    Aliakbar Nafar, Kristen Brent Venable, Parisa Kordjamshidi
    AAAI 2025
    AAAI Paper
    Code

  • Learning vs Retrieval: The Role of In-Context Examples in Regression with LLMs

    Aliakbar Nafar, Kristen Brent Venable, Parisa Kordjamshidi
    NAACL 2025 (Outstanding Paper Award 🏆)
    ACL Anthology
    Code

  • Prompt2DeModel: Declarative Neuro-Symbolic Modeling with Natural Language

    Hossein Rajaby Faghihi, Aliakbar Nafar, Andrzej Uszok, et al.
    NeSy 2024
    Springer Chapter
    Demo

  • Gluecons: A Generic Benchmark for Learning Under Constraints

    Hossein Rajaby Faghihi, Aliakbar Nafar, Chen Zheng, et al.
    AAAI 2023
    AAAI Paper
    Code

  • Teaching Probabilistic Logical Reasoning to Transformers

    Aliakbar Nafar, Kristen Brent Venable, Parisa Kordjamshidi
    Findings of EACL 2024
    ACL Anthology
    Code

  • DomiKnowS: A Library for Integration of Symbolic Domain Knowledge in Deep Learning

    Hossein Rajaby Faghihi, Quan Guo, Andrzej Uszok, et al.
    EMNLP 2021 System Demonstrations
    ACL Anthology
    Code

  • New Transition Systems for Dependency Parsing of Sentences with Non-Projective Relations

    M. Gholamalitabarfirouzjaei, A. Nafar, G. Ghassem-Sani
    LTC 2019