A Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Marine Vessels Power Prediction Under Distribution Shifts

Abstract

This paper proposes a neuro-symbolic approach to predict the power of marine cargo vessels. The neuro-symbolic approach combines two parts. The first is a neural networks part, and the second is a symbolic part that relies on physics-based formulae. The Shifts-power dataset was used for evaluation. The experimental results showed that a combination of a physics-based module (symbolic part) with a neural networks model (namely ensemble Monte Carlo dropout) superseded the state-of-the-art results by 2.3% in terms of uncertainty estimation measured using R-AUC, and by 3.4% in terms of power prediction for out-of-distribution (OOD) examples measured using RMSE. It also superseded the symbolic approach by 6.3% in terms of uncertainty and 17.7% in terms of OOD power prediction.