Computer Science & Engineering

Recent advances in computing hardware (FPGAs, distributed parallel computing) and numerical methods (machine learning algorithms, automatic differentiation) create new possibilities for Fusion Power Plant optimization and control. In this talk, I will discuss some of the recent accomplishments of the Plasma Control Group at Princeton that take advantage of these new capabilities.

Abstract: Reasoning, the ability to logically draw conclusions from existing knowledge, has been long pursued as a goal of artificial intelligence. Although numerous learning algorithms have been developed for reasoning, most of them are limited to the domain they are trained on. By contrast, humans often derive high-level rules or principles from experience and apply them to new domains — an ability referred as inductive generalization. In this talk, we present a series of works that learn inductive representations for reasoning over knowledge graphs. First, we introduce Neural Bellman-Ford Networks (NBFNet) that captures paths between entities and can generalize to graphs of new entities. Then we discuss Graph Neural Network Query Executor (GNN-QE), an extension of NBNet that answers multi-hop logical queries and generalizes well on our inductive benchmark. Finally, by learning inductive representations for both entities and relations, we demonstrate that a model can generalize to any graph with arbitrary entity and relation vocabularies, paving the way for foundation models for knowledge graph reasoning.