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Neurosymbolic Logic Guides Weakly Supervised Segmentation

ai-technology · 2026-05-14

A new approach integrates differentiable fuzzy logic with deep segmentation models to improve weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS). The method uses logical constraints to fine-tune the Segment Anything Model (SAM) under weak supervision, generating better pseudo-labels for training a second-stage prompt-free model. Evaluated on Pascal VOC 2012 and REFUGE2 datasets, the logic-guided fine-tuning outperforms heuristic prompt-based methods.

Key facts

  • Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) trains models from partial annotations like bounding boxes, scribbles, or image-level tags.
  • Recent work uses foundation models such as SAM to generate pseudo-labels.
  • Existing approaches depend on heuristic prompt choices and limited prior knowledge integration.
  • The proposed method takes a neurosymbolic perspective, integrating differentiable fuzzy logic with deep segmentation models.
  • Weak annotations and domain-specific priors are unified as continuous logical constraints.
  • The refined foundation model produces improved pseudo-labels for training a second-stage prompt-free segmentation model.
  • Experiments were conducted on Pascal VOC 2012 and REFUGE2 optic disc/cup segmentation datasets.
  • The logic-guided fine-tuning shows improved performance over heuristic prompt-based methods.

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  • arXiv

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