Kris Nilsson

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Knowledge representation and reasoning · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning
probabilistic reasoning
0.912025
Polynomial-Time Relational Probabilistic Inference in Open Universes · IJCAI 2025
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning › logic-based reasoning
first-order logic
0.312025
Polynomial-Time Relational Probabilistic Inference in Open Universes · IJCAI 2025
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning › statistical relational learning
lifted inference
0.312025
Polynomial-Time Relational Probabilistic Inference in Open Universes · IJCAI 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

sum-of-squares logic · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Polynomial-Time Relational Probabilistic Inference in Open Universes
abstract
Reasoning under uncertainty is a fundamental challenge in Artificial Intelligence. As with most of these challenges, there is a harsh dilemma between the expressive power of the language used, and the tractability of the computational problem posed by reasoning. Inspired by human reasoning, we introduce a method of first-order relational probabilistic inference that satisfies both criteria, and can handle hybrid (discrete and continuous) variables. Specifically, we extend sum-of-squares logic of expectation to relational settings, demonstrating that lifted reasoning in the bounded-degree fragment for knowledge bases of bounded quantifier rank can be performed in polynomial time, even with an a priori unknown and/or countably infinite set of objects. Crucially, our notion of tractability is framed in proof-theoretic terms, which extends beyond the syntactic properties of the language or queries. We are able to derive the tightest bounds provable by proofs of a given degree and size and establish completeness in our sum-of-squares refutations for fixed degrees.
Luise Ge, Brendan Juba, Kris Nilsson
IJCAI3