A Qualitative Model for Reasoning about Path and Support

arXiv:2609.20349 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-17 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-17

Updated: 2026-09-17

Comments: Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning 2026 at IJCAI (35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Affordance — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Temporal Reasoning — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Physical Constraints — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Pruning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Qualitative Spatial Reasoning — 2× in this paper
• Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning — 2× in this paper
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence — 1× in this paper
• Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Representations and Reasoning — 1× in this paper
• RAG — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Structural Integrity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Temporal consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Learning to Play Video Games with Intuitive Physics Priors
• Bilateral Spatial Reasoning about Street Networks: Graph-based RAG with Qualitative Spatial Representations

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