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Arbitrarily Applicable Same/Opposite Relational Responding with NARS
Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL. Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1891-9096
Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
2026 (English)In: Artificial General Intelligence - 18th International Conference, AGI 2025, Proceedings, Springer Nature , 2026, p. 314-324Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Same/opposite relational responding, a fundamental aspect of human symbolic cognition, allows the flexible generalization of stimulus relationships based on minimal experience. In this study, we demonstrate the emergence of arbitrarily applicable same/opposite relational responding within the Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System (NARS), a computational cognitive architecture designed for adaptive reasoning under uncertainty. Specifically, we extend NARS with an implementation of acquired relations, enabling the system to explicitly derive both symmetric (mutual entailment) and novel relational combinations (combinatorial entailment) from minimal explicit training in a contextually controlled matching-to-sample (MTS) procedure. Experimental results show that NARS rapidly internalizes explicitly trained relational rules and robustly demonstrates derived relational generalizations based on arbitrary contextual cues. Importantly, derived relational responding in critical test phases inherently combines both mutual and combinatorial entailments, such as deriving same-relations from multiple explicitly trained opposite-relations. Internal confidence metrics illustrate strong internalization of these relational principles, closely paralleling phenomena observed in human relational learning experiments. Our findings underscore the potential for integrating nuanced relational learning mechanisms inspired by learning psychology into artificial general intelligence frameworks, explicitly highlighting the arbitrary and context-sensitive relational capabilities modeled within NARS.

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Springer Nature , 2026. p. 314-324
Keywords [en]
arbitrarily applicable relational responding, combinatorial entailment, mutual entailment, NARS, relational learning, Same/opposite relational responding
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Computer Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-369366DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-00686-8_28Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105013468862OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-369366DiVA, id: diva2:1994813
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18th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2025, Reykjavic, Iceland, Aug 10 2025 - Aug 13 2025
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Available from: 2025-09-03 Created: 2025-09-03 Last updated: 2025-09-03Bibliographically approved

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