Analogical reasoning is a remarkable capability of human reasoning, used to solve hard reasoning tasks. It consists in transferring knowledge from a source domain to a different, but somewhat similar, target domain by relying simultaneously on similarities and dissimilarities. In particular, analogical proportions, i.e., statements of the form “A is to B as C is to D”, are the basis of analogical inference.

Analogical inference is pertaining to case-based reasoning and it has contributed to multiple machine learning tasks such as classification, decision making, and automatic translation with competitive results. Moreover, analogical extrapolation can support dataset augmentation (analogical extension) for model learning, especially in environments with few labeled examples. Conversely, advanced neural techniques, such as representation learning, enabled efficient approaches to detecting and solving analogies in domains where symbolic approaches had shown their limits. However, recent approaches using deep learning architectures remain task and domain specific, and strongly rely on ad-hoc representations of objects, i.e., tailor made embeddings.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together AI researchers at the cross roads of machine learning and knowledge representation and reasoning, who are interested by the various applications of analogical reasoning in machine learning or, conversely, of machine learning techniques to improve analogical reasoning. The IARML workshop aims at bridging gaps between different communities of AI researchers, including case-based reasoning, deep learning and neuro-symbolic machine learning.