Challenge

Build a Neuro-Symbolic Agent for IoT Anomaly Response

Addressing the challenge of reasoning under perceptual uncertainty in real-world applications like IoT device operation, this challenge focuses on developing a neuro-symbolic agent. The agent will integrate the natural language understanding and high-level planning capabilities of an agent with a symbolic reasoning system. Its primary function will be to detect anomalies in simulated IoT sensor data streams and generate adaptive, context-aware responses to maintain system stability, akin to optimizing power distribution system restoration. Participants will need to design how continuous, often noisy, sensor data is translated into discrete symbolic facts, which then inform a symbolic planner. this will be crucial for enforcing schema-driven validation and ensuring the logical consistency and safety of the LLM's generated plans and actions. The goal is a robust system that can handle complex scenarios where a purely neural or symbolic approach might fall short, bridging the gap between continuous perception and discrete symbolic planning to enable intelligent, adaptive control.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Develop a neuro-symbolic agent leveraging Vicuna-33B (via Langroid) to detect IoT anomalies, translate perceptual data to symbolic facts, and execute adaptive responses.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

The evaluation will assess the neuro-symbolic agent's ability to accurately detect IoT anomalies and execute appropriate, safe, and context-aware responses in a simulated environment.

Datasets

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Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Build a simulated IoT environment for testing anomaly detection and response.

  • Design a neuro-symbolic architecture integrating neural and symbolic components.

  • Implement mechanisms to translate uncertain perceptual data into discrete symbolic facts.

  • Utilize Marvin for schema-driven validation and constraint enforcement in agent plans.

  • Develop a symbolic planning component for adaptive IoT control.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

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How this agent runs

The evaluation will assess the neuro-symbolic agent's ability to accurately detect IoT anomalies and execute appropriate, safe, and context-aware responses in a simulated environment.

Challenge input

{ "sensor_data_stream": [{"timestamp": "datetime", "sensor_id": "string", "value": "float"}], "anomaly_type": "string" }

Agent execution

The configured agent processes the input under the challenge policy.

Evaluated output

{ "anomaly_detected": "boolean", "detected_anomaly_type": "string", "explanation": "string", "action_sequence": [{"device_id": "string", "command":...

Checks for
  • Verifies that the agent correctly identifies the embedded anomaly type.
  • Checks if the `adherence_to_safety_rules` flag is true, indicating no safety violations.
  • Ensures the generated action sequence is non-empty and contains valid commands for simulated devices.
Proof of success
  • ResponseTime target: 2
Runtime evidence
  • Python execution harness
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Evaluation contract

  • The evaluation module defines the checks.

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