Emile van Krieken

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University of Edinburgh

Emile.van.Krieken@ed.ac.uk

I am a postdoc in the NLP group and the APRIL lab at the University of Edinburgh under the ELIAI program. I obtained a PhD with distinction (cum laude) in Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2024, where I am also a visiting researcher in the Learning and Reasoning group.

My research combines machine learning with symbolic reasoning, or “Neurosymbolic Learning”. My work focuses on the fundamental understanding of such combinations, including optimisation properties, characterisations of expressiveness, and scalability. Currently, I am particularly interested in methods for Neurosymbolic Learning in Generative AI models like LLMs and Diffusion Models. Another focus is the accessibility of Neurosymbolic Learning, to which end I lead the development of the ULLER Python library

I am also interested in Personal Knowledge Management and developed Juggl, a plugin for Obsidian.md that adds a customizable graph view. Other plugins include Supercharged Links. I also composed some music: You can listen to some songs here.

I am open for academic opportunities in Machine Learning and AI, preferably in or close to the Netherlands.

news

Nov 21, 2024 I will be Program Chair of the NeSy 2025 conference in Santa Cruz, USA from 8-10 September 2025.
Sep 09, 2024 Our paper on ULLER, a general-purpose NeSy language, is accepted as a spotlight oral presentation at NeSy 2024. In addition, I’m presenting my ICML paper as a spotlight oral, and we are giving a tutorial on ULLER on Thursday the 12th of September.
Jun 27, 2024 I am giving a keynote talk at the Differentiable Almost Everything ICML 2024 workshop.
May 02, 2024 Our paper “On the Independence Assumption in Probabilistic Neurosymbolic Learning” is accepted at ICML 2024.
Apr 26, 2024 Our paper “A Neuro-Symbolic Benchmark Suite for Concept Quality and Reasoning Shortcuts ” is accepted at the NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks track.

selected publications

  1. NeSy (SPOTLIGHT)
    ULLER: A Unified Language for Learning and Reasoning
    Emile van Krieken, Samy Badreddine, Robin Manhaeve, and 1 more author
    In 18th International Conference on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning, 2024
  2. NeurIPS
    A-NeSI: A Scalable Approximate Method for Probabilistic Neurosymbolic Inference
    Emile van Krieken, Thiviyan Thanapalasingam, Jakub Tomczak, and 2 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023
  3. ICML
    On the Independence Assumption in Neurosymbolic Learning
    Emile van Krieken, Pasquale Minervini, Edoardo M Ponti, and 1 more author
    In , 2024
  4. NeurIPS
    Storchastic: A Framework for General Stochastic Automatic Differentiation
    Emile van Krieken, Jakub Tomczak, and Annette Ten Teije
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021