Applied AI Research Lab

Machines that reason. Built in Africa.

Centenum Labs is the research arm of Centenum Technology, exploring the frontier of neurosymbolic AI, symbolic regression, and program synthesis. We build systems that don't just predict. They understand.

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Research Areas
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Symbolic Regression & Equation Discovery

Learning mathematical expressions directly from data. We explore SR as a bridge between raw ML and interpretable, human-readable models, especially for scientific domains.

PySR Interpretability Physics-ML
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Program Synthesis & DreamCoder-Style Systems

Machines that write programs. We study how systems can infer compact, reusable abstractions from examples, moving toward machines that generalize like humans do.

DreamCoder Library Learning Abstraction
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Neurosymbolic AI

Unifying the statistical power of deep learning with the precision of symbolic reasoning. We believe the next generation of AI must be able to explain itself.

Hybrid Models Reasoning Explainability
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Compositional DSLs & Abstractions

Designing domain-specific languages that allow AI systems to build hierarchical representations. Structure as a first-class citizen in machine intelligence.

DSL Design Compositionality Hierarchy
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ARC & Abstraction-Reasoning Challenges

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus is one of AI's hardest open problems. We explore approaches that combine perception, analogy-making, and symbolic search.

ARC Prize Few-shot Analogy
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Applied ML for African Contexts

Building tools and research that address real problems, from government systems and healthcare to language models for underrepresented African languages.

African NLP Gov-tech Fintech AI

AI that can
show its work.

8+
Years in deep tech
6+
Sectors deployed
3+
Research tracks
NG
Lagos, Nigeria

The dominant paradigm in AI is pattern matching at scale: powerful, brittle, and opaque. Systems that work until they don't, and fail in ways no one can explain. Centenum Labs was founded on a different conviction.

We believe the most durable AI systems will be those that combine the learning capacity of neural networks with the precision and transparency of symbolic methods. Not one or the other. Both, in tension, producing something new.

We sit at the intersection of fundamental research and real-world application. Our parent company, Centenum Technology, has shipped production AI systems for Nigerian banks, government agencies, and enterprise companies. That ground truth shapes everything we build in the lab.

We are building at the frontier, and we are building from Africa.

Papers & Work

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Symbolic Regression as Interpretable Machine Learning: A Practitioner's Guide for Applied Sciences
Centenum Labs · 2024 · Symbolic Regression, ML Interpretability
Upcoming
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From Data to Equations: Building MathExec, A Platform for Mathematical Modeling at Scale
Centenum Labs · 2024 · Platform Research, Applied ML
Upcoming
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Library Learning in Program Synthesis: Surveying DreamCoder and Beyond
Centenum Labs · 2025 · Program Synthesis, Abstraction
Upcoming
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Neurosymbolic Architectures for African Language Understanding
Centenum Labs · 2025 · NLP, African Languages, Hybrid AI
Upcoming
Open Tools
Mathematical Modeling Platform
MathExec

A platform for data scientists and researchers to go from paper to prototype, running symbolic regression, mathematical modeling, and equation discovery in the browser.

mathexec.com
Centenum Technology · Lagos, Nigeria · est. 2018
Research arm · centenumlabs.com
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