Abstract
Neuro-Symbolic reasoning, commonly abbreviated as "NeSy," represents a critical and challenging area in artificial intelligence, characterized by its integration of data-driven neural learning and interpretable symbolic reasoning. Unfortunately, most NeSy research to date has mainly concentrated on developing interpretable AI systems for tasks like visual scene parsing or question answering, and has not adequately addressed the need for causal reasoning, cognitive autonomy, and adaptive self-evolution in open-world environments. This bring great challenges and makes previous methods fail to disentangle these causal cognitive complexities. This paper propose Self-Evolving Neuro-Symbolic Autonomy (SENSA) with causal resilience, integrating neural-symbolic bidirectional self-alignment, causal-driven self-evolution, and hierarchical resilience planning to achieve autonomous cognitive decision-making. With this regard, a neural-symbolic bidirectional self-alignment is developed, which enables real-time mutual adaptation, ensuring robustness against adversarial noise and causal coherence in dynamic open-real environments. Specifically, we design a novel causal-driven self-evolution that enables AI systems to autonomously refine their decision-making policies by leveraging causal reasoning and counterfactual analysis. On this basis, we further develope the hierarchical resilience planning to adapt, recover, and maintain performance even under disruptive or adversarial conditions. The SENSA bridges the gap between neural adaptability and symbolic rigor, which is called industrial brain, achieving causal reasoning and self-evolving autonomy in Cyber-Physical Systems. Theoretically, we prove that the causal reasoning, cognitive autonomy, and adaptive self-evolution by our SENSA can approximate the ground-truth. Empirically, extensive evaluations on eight benchmark datasets demonstrate our superiority over state-of-the-art baselines.