News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

xpitfire

Re:SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs on Friday June 27, 2025 @07:26PM (#44401213)
We've been working on some exciting things with SymbolicAI and here a few things which might interest the HN community.

Two years ago, we built a benchmark to evaluate multistep reasoning, tool use, and logical capabilities in language models. It includes a quality measure to assess performance and is built on a plugin system we developed for SymbolicAI.

- Benchmark & Plugin System: https://github.com/ExtensityAI/benchmark

- Example Eval: https://github.com/ExtensityAI/benchmark/blob/main/src/evals...

We've also implemented some interesting concepts in our framework: - C#-style Extension Methods in Python: Using GlobalSymbolPrimitive to extend functionalities.

    - https://github.com/ExtensityAI/benchmark/blob/main/src/func.py#L146
- Symbolic <> Sub-symbolic Conversion: And using this for quality metrics, like a reward signal from the path integral of multistep generations. - https://github.com/ExtensityAI/benchmark/blob/main/src/func....

For fun, we integrated LLM-based tools into a customizable shell. Check out the Rick & Morty-styled rickshell:

- RickShell: https://github.com/ExtensityAI/rickshell

We were also among the first to generate a full research paper from a single prompt and continue to push the boundaries of AI-generated research:

- End-to-End Paper Generation (Examples): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vUg2Y7TgZRRiaPzC83pQ...

- Recent AI Research Generation:

    - Three-Body Problem: https://github.com/ExtensityAI/three-body_problem  

    - Primality Test: https://github.com/ExtensityAI/primality_test 

    - Twitter/X Post: https://x.com/DinuMariusC/status/1915521724092743997 
Finally, for those interested in building similar services, we've had an open-source, MCP-like API endpoint service available for over a year:

- SymbolicAI API: https://github.com/ExtensityAI/symbolicai/blob/main/symai/en...

I would highly appreciate it if the authors could also cite the related work that also addressed this problem previously. In our paper, we propose and evaluate a framework that enables building complex workflows, one of which is writing a paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00854 Here is the benchmark with the paper generation workflow: https://github.com/ExtensityAI/benchmark/blob/main/src/evals... Here are some samples: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KZmWsos07xg9p6JEVgXi...