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Towards Improving Reasoning & Planning Capabilities of LLMs with Neuro-Symbolic Learning
✨✨ Curated collection of papers and resources on latest advances on improving reasoning and planning abilities of LLM/MLLMs with neuro-symbolic learning
🗂️ Table of Contents
📌 Awesome Tutorials & Workshops & Talks
- Neuro-Symbolic Visual Reasoning and Program Synthesis Tutorials in CVPR 2020
- Neuro-Symbolic Methods for Language and Vision Tutorials in AAAI 2022
- AAAI 2022 Tutorial on AI Planning: Theory and Practice Tutorials in AAAI 2022
- Advances in Neuro Symbolic Reasoning and Learning Tutorials in AAAI 2023
- Neuro-Symbolic Approaches: Large Language Models + Tool Use Tutorials in ACL 2023
- Neuro-Symbolic Generative Models Workshop in ICLR 2023
- Neuro-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning in the Era of Large Language Models Workshop in AAAI 2024
- Neuro-Symbolic Concepts for Robotic Manipulation Talk given by Jiayuan Mao [Video]
- Building General-Purpose Robots with Compositional Action Abstractions Talk given by Jiayuan Mao
- Summer School on Neurosymbolic Programming
- MIT 6.S191: Neuro-Symbolic AI Talk given by David Cox [Video]
- NeuroSymbolic Programming [Slides]
- LLM Reasoning: Key Ideas and Limitations Talk give by Denny Zhou
- Inference-Time Techniques for LLM Reasoning Talk given by Xinyun Chen
- Neurosymbolic Reasoning for Large Language Models Neuro-Symbolic AI Summer School in UCLA, 2024
🔍 Survey
Survey on LLM Reasoning
- Towards Reasoning Era: A Survey of Long Chain-of-Thought for Reasoning Large Language Models
- LLM Post-Training: A Deep Dive into Reasoning Large Language Models
- A Survey on Post-training of Large Language Models
- Reasoning Language Models: A Blueprint
- Towards Large Reasoning Models: A Survey of Reinforced Reasoning with Large Language Models
- Logical Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Survey
- From System 1 to System 2: A Survey of Reasoning Large Language Models
- A Survey on LLM Inference-Time Self-Improvement
- Empowering LLMs with Logical Reasoning: A Comprehensive Survey
- Advancing Reasoning in Large Language Models: Promising Methods and Approaches
- A Survey on Deep Learning for Theorem Proving
- A Survey of Mathematical Reasoning in the Era of Multi-Modal Large Language Model: Benchmark, Method & Challenges
- Multi-Modal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning:A Comprehensive Survey
- Exploring the Reasoning Abilities of Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs): A Comprehensive Survey on Emerging Trends in Multimodal Reasoning
Survey on LLM Planning
- A Survey on Large Language Models for Automated Planning
- A Survey of Optimization-based Task and Motion Planning: From Classical To Learning Approaches
- A Survey on Large Language Model based Autonomous Agents
- Understanding the planning of LLM agents: A survey
- Introduction to AI Planning
Survey on Neuro-Symbolic Learning
- A Survey on Neural-symbolic Learning Systems
- Towards Cognitive AI Systems: a Survey and Prospective on Neuro-Symbolic AI
- Bridging the Gap: Representation Spaces in Neuro-Symbolic AI
- Neuro-Symbolic AI: The 3rd Wave
- Neuro-Symbolic AI and its Taxonomy: A Survey
- The third AI summer: AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture
- NeuroSymbolic AI - Why, What, and How
- From Statistical Relational to Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence: a Survey
- Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence: Current Trends
- Neuro-Symbolic Reinforcement Learning and Planning: A Survey
- A Review on Neuro-symbolic AI Improvements to Natural Language Processing
- Survey on Applications of NeuroSymbolic Artificial Intelligence
- Overview of Neuro-Symbolic Integration Frameworks
📖 Basic Neuro-Symbolic Frameworks
📖 Symbolic to LLM
Symbolic Generation, LLM Imitation
LLM Formalize, Symbolic Augment
| Title | Venue | Date | Domain | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMR-DA: Data Augmentation by Abstract Meaning Representation | ACL | 2022 | Logic Reasoning | Github |
| Abstract Meaning Representation-Based Logic-Driven Data Augmentation for Logical Reasoning | ACL | 2024 | Logic Reasoning | Github |
| Neuro-Symbolic Data Generation for Math Reasoning | NeurIPS | 2024 | Math Reasoning | - |
| LawGPT: Knowledge-Guided Data Generation and Its Application to Legal LLM | SCI-FM Workshop @ ICLR | 2025 | Legal Reasoning | Github |
| AlphaIntegrator: Transformer Action Search for Symbolic Integration Proofs | Arxiv | 2024 | Theorem Proving | - |
| Large Language Models Meet Symbolic Provers for Logical Reasoning Evaluation | ICLR | 2025 | Logic Reasoning | Github |
📖 LLM to Symbolic
Symbolic Solver Aided Methods
Program-Aided Methods
| Title | Venue | Date | Domain | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAL: Program-aided Language Models | ICML | 2023 | Reasoning | Github |
| Program of Thoughts Prompting: Disentangling Computation from Reasoning for Numerical Reasoning Tasks | TMLR | 2023 | Math Reasoning | Github |
| Binding Language Models in Symbolic Languages | ICLR | 2023 | Reasoning | Github |
| Chain of Code: Reasoning with a Language Model-Augmented Code Emulator | ICML | 2024 | Reasoning | Github |
| CODE4STRUCT: Code Generation for Few-Shot Event Structure Prediction | ACL | 2023 | Reasoning | Github |
| MathPrompter: Mathematical Reasoning using Large Language Models | ACL | 2023 | Math Reasoning | Github |
| Natural Language Embedded Programs for Hybrid Language Symbolic Reasoning | ACL | 2024 | Reasoning | Github |
| Towards Better Understanding of Program-of-Thought Reasoning in Cross-Lingual and Multilingual Environments | Arxiv | 2025 | Reasoning | - |
| Code as Policies: Language Model Programs for Embodied Control | Arxiv | 2023 | Robotics | Github |
Tool-Aided Methods
Search Augmented Methods
📖 LLM plus Symbolic
Symbolic Formatted Reasoning
Differential Symbolic Modules
Symbolic Feedback
| Title | Venue | Date | Domain | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoTran: An LLM-based Code Translator using Reinforcement Learning with Feedback from Compiler and Symbolic Execution | ECAI | 2024 | Code Generation | - |
| Position: LLMs Can’t Plan, But Can Help Planning in LLM-Modulo Frameworks | ICML | 2024 | Planning | - |
| RLSF: Reinforcement Learning via Symbolic Feedback | Arxiv | 2025 | Reasoning | Github |
| Rule Based Rewards for Language Model Safety | NeurIPS | 2024 | - |
Misc on Neuro-Symbolic Learning
🛠️ Awesome Datasets & Benchmarks
Mathematical Reasoning
- GSM8K, MATH, AIME, OlympiadBench, MiniF2F, GSM Symbolic, MWPBench, AMC, AddSub, MathQA, FIMO, TRIGO, U-MATH, Mario, MultiArith, CHAMP, ARB, LeanDojo, LISA, PISA, TheoremQA, FrontierMath, Functional, TABMWP, SCIBENCH, MultiHiertt, ChartQA
Logical Reasoning
- LogicGame, LogiQA, LogiQA-v2.0, PrOntoQA, ProofWriter, BigBench, FOLIO, AbductionRules, ARC Challenge, WANLI, CLUTRR, Adversarial NLI, Adversarial ARCT
Code Generation
Visual Reasoning
- Visual Sudoku, CLEVR Dataset, GQA Dataset, VQA & VQA v2.0, Flickr30k entities, DAQUAR, Visual Genome, Visual7W, COCO-QA, TDIUC, SHAPES, VQA-Rephrasings, VQA P2, VQA-HAT, VQA-X, VQA-E, TallyQA, ST-VQA, Text-VQA, FVQA, OK-VQA
Geometry Reasoning
Classical Planning
Game AI Planning
- Atari 100k, Procgen, Gym Retro, Malmö, Obstacle Tower, Torcs, DeepMind Lab, Hard Eight, DeepMind Control, VizDoom, Pommerman, Multiagent emergence, Google Research Football, Neural MMOs, StarCraft II, PySC2, Fever Basketball
Robotic Planning
- Mini-Behavior, CLIPort Dataset, ALFworld, VirtualHome, RocoBench, Behavior, SMART-LLM, PPNL, Robotouille
AI Agent Planning
- WebArena, OSWorld, API-Bank, TravelPlanner, ChinaTravel, TaskBench, WebShop, AgentBench, AgentGym, AgentBoard, GAIA, MINT
Others
- RSbench: A Neuro-Symbolic Benchmark Suite for Concept Quality and Reasoning Shortcuts