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Reasoning-Modulated Representations

Machine Learning 2022-12-06 v2 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

Neural networks leverage robust internal representations in order to generalise. Learning them is difficult, and often requires a large training set that covers the data distribution densely. We study a common setting where our task is not purely opaque. Indeed, very often we may have access to information about the underlying system (e.g. that observations must obey certain laws of physics) that any "tabula rasa" neural network would need to re-learn from scratch, penalising performance. We incorporate this information into a pre-trained reasoning module, and investigate its role in shaping the discovered representations in diverse self-supervised learning settings from pixels. Our approach paves the way for a new class of representation learning, grounded in algorithmic priors.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2107.08881,
  title  = {Reasoning-Modulated Representations},
  author = {Petar Veličković and Matko Bošnjak and Thomas Kipf and Alexander Lerchner and Raia Hadsell and Razvan Pascanu and Charles Blundell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.08881},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

To appear at LoG 2022. 17 pages, 5 figures