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ArticleNature communications2026

Compositional neurosymbolic representations enable efficient active exploration.

P Michael Furlong, Nicole S-Y Dumont, Rika Antonova, Jeff Orchard, Chris Eliasmith

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

P Michael Furlong *Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. michael.furlong@uwaterloo.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9503-8498
Nicole S-Y Dumont *Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5041-1527
Rika Antonova *University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Jeff OrchardCentre for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
Chris EliasmithCentre for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autonomous systems that learn and explore over long horizons face a problem. Standard methods scale poorly in the number of observations, n, precluding sustained operation on bounded hardware. We show that compositional, high-dimensional vector representations inspired by neural computation address these constraints. We use these representations to construct a Bayesian optimization (BO) algorithm that operates in complex spaces and reduces the time and memory requirements compared to state-of-the-art BO algorithms on diverse tasks. Whereas standard methods incur O(n

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PMCPMC13594323

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