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NEURO-SYMBOLIC AI SUMMER SCHOOL
CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE · NSSS '26

Grounding
AI-Accelerated Research

Valency is the Data Layer Supporting Open Science for the Agentic Era
IN USE BY RESEARCHERS AT MAJOR RESEARCH, ACADEMIC, AND R&D ORGANIZATIONS
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of California, Berkeley University of Cambridge Harvard University RefinedScience
Presented by Josh Bloom (Professor, UC Berkeley; CEO, Valency)
These interactive slides: valency-oss.github.io/talks/ns2026
AUGUST 6–7, 2026 · STREAMED LIVE
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Valency
NEURO-SYMBOLIC AI SUMMER SCHOOL
CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE · NSSS '26
VALENCY BOND · FREE ACCESS FOR ATTENDEES

Deep literature
search, inside
your LLM.

45M+ publications — fresh within hours of posting — a tool call away in Claude, Codex, or any agent you're building.
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CODE · VAL-BE-NS2026
© VALENCY SYSTEMS INC. · VALENCY.IO
AUG 6–7, 2026
NSSS '26 · 01
WHAT IS BOND
The corpus,
as tools.
45M+
publications you and your agents can discover.
PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, EarthArXiv. Preprints indexed within hours of posting.
Backed by a 450M+ work citation graph.
SEARCH
Search by meaning, not just keywords.
Semantic and abstract search surface work that title keywords miss. Batch variants cover breadth in one call.
Search for papers about combining neural networks with symbolic reasoning across arXiv. What categories do they land in?
IDENTITY
Disambiguate, then search.
Resolve the person first — ORCID or profile — then search their papers. Far more precise than literal name matching.
Look up Vaishak Belle (ORCID 0000-0001-5573-8465). Show me their profile and all papers in the Valency corpus. Also pull his co-author network and breakdown by category.
DOSSIER
OUTPUT
End with an artifact.
Close every session with something durable: BibTeX, CSV, or JSON your other tools can actually use.
Find CC-BY licensed papers about theorem proving with language models, count them, and export a sample as BibTeX.
NSSS '26 · 02
TRY THESE
Prompts to
start with.
Paste one in as-is. Dozens more in the docs.
DOCS.VALENCY.IO/REFERENCE/EXAMPLES
SOLVERS
Find papers semantically similar to using large language models with external symbolic solvers for formal reasoning, across arXiv. Then find the most-cited among them.
TRENDS
Chart publication trends for neuro-symbolic AI versus chain-of-thought reasoning over the last five years. When did each take off?
IMPACT
Find the original Neuro-Symbolic Concept Learner paper, then trace its citations chronologically. Which fields picked it up first?
PEOPLE
Who are the most prolific researchers working on knowledge graphs plus LLMs on arXiv? Compare the top 5 side-by-side.
NSSS '26 · 03
SKILLS
In Claude Code
or Codex?
Seven packaged workflows that drive Bond for you. Install once, then just ask.
npx skills@latest add valency-oss/valency-skills
Needs the Valency MCP server configured first.
Or make your own harness on the same tools — like a deep research agent over the corpus.
GITHUB.COM/VALENCY-OSS/VALENCY-SKILLS
valency-profile
Build a researcher's publication and collaboration profile.
valency-landscape
Summarize a field, its growth, authors, and subdomains.
valency-similar
Find papers semantically similar to a known paper.
valency-trends
Analyze publication trends for topics or categories.
valency-network
Map collaborators and research divergence.
valency-reading-list
Curate reading by a researcher's intellectual threads.
valency-fresh-collaborators
Find relevant researchers outside an existing network.
NSSS '26 · 04
GET CONNECTED
Get
connected.
Goal: run your first query before this session ends.
01
Claim your account.
On desktop: app.valency.io/go/ns2026 — or scan the QR on the cover slide with your phone.
One code for the whole summer school: VAL-BE-NS2026
02
Add the MCP connector.
Claude Desktop›Customize›Connectors›Valency›Connect
Then "Allow" on the auth screen in your web browser. Also works in Claude.ai on the web, Claude Code, Codex, and any MCP client.
FULL SETUP GUIDE · DOCS.VALENCY.IO/GUIDES/CLAUDE
03
Confirm you're live.
Run a real query right now:
"How many papers are in the Valency corpus today?"
"Find recent papers on neuro-symbolic AI."
Valency
NEURO-SYMBOLIC AI SUMMER SCHOOL
CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE · NSSS '26
Thank you.
These interactive slides: valency-oss.github.io/talks/ns2026
Claim the account, wire up the connector, and go build. Then tell us what the literature layer for neuro-symbolic AI should do next.
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CODE · VAL-BE-NS2026
DOCS
Guides, examples, endpoints
docs.valency.io
FEEDBACK
/feedback, in the LLM
support@valency.io
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