Distilling Neuro-Symbolic Programs into 3D Multi-modal LLMs
Researchers introduce APEIRIA, a neuro-symbolic 3D multi-modal language model that combines the interpretability of symbolic AI with the flexibility of modern LLMs for 3D spatial reasoning. The system uses a three-stage curriculum to distill reasoning patterns from symbolic programs into natural language chain-of-thought, achieving performance competitive with state-of-the-art models while maintaining transparent, modular reasoning.