This is one guy by the way, so not like a huge effort by IBM.
This is one guy by the way, so not like a huge effort by IBM.
I still hold out hope that the likes of Gurobi or CPLEX would be replicated by open source or they themselves would be open sourced. There is GLPK, but from what I hear and read its performance is not at par. There is Glop by Google but have not tried it.
I am one who thinks all of the effort that went into, and is still going into symbolic AI with Lisp will re-emerge to tie in with the current ML techniques using neural networks like ANNs, RNNs, GANNs, etc. to really bring AI/ML to the next level.
This 1992 [1] paper concludes with an interesting line:
"In conclusion, the research summarized in this paper demonstrates that combining symbolic and connectionist methods is a promising approach to machine learning."
There are many others that are more current - search on "ML and Symbolic AI".
[1 - PDF] https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF00993982.pdf