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Augmenting Large Language Models via Vector Embeddings to Improve Domain-Specific Responsiveness

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Reasoning with Vectors: A Continuous Model for Fast Robust Inference.

Dominic Widdows¹, Trevor Cohen²

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|November 20, 2015

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Continuous vector space models offer fast, robust reasoning for knowledge bases, complementing traditional methods. This approach enables effective hypothesis generation and application across various informatics tasks.

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Augmenting Large Language Models via Vector Embeddings to Improve Domain-Specific Responsiveness

Augmenting Large Language Models via Vector Embeddings to Improve Domain-Specific Responsiveness

Published on: December 6, 2024

Area of Science:

Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval

Background:

Traditional deduction engines (e.g., theorem provers) offer exact reasoning but can be slow and brittle.
Formal knowledge bases require efficient methods for inference and hypothesis generation.

Purpose of the Study:

To describe the application of continuous vector space models for reasoning with formal knowledge bases.
To demonstrate the effectiveness of these models for hypothesis generation and complementary inference.

Main Methods:

Utilizing continuous vector space models and Predication-based Semantic Indexing.
Employing Vector Symbolic Architectures to represent knowledge base concepts and relationships (subject-predicate-object triples).
Integrating logical connectives within semantic vector models.

Main Results:

Continuous models provide fast, approximate, yet robust inference capabilities.
Demonstrated effectiveness in informatics tasks such as drug repurposing, information retrieval, and type inference.
Promising results in areas like word comparison and tabular data representation, including numerical values.

Conclusions:

Continuous vector space models are a viable and effective approach for formal reasoning.
These models offer a complementary alternative to traditional deduction engines, enhancing hypothesis generation and inference speed.
The Semantic Vectors open-source software package provides publicly available algorithms and techniques.