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In the context of structure-to-structure transformation tasks, learning sequences of discrete symbolic operations poses significant challenges due to their non-differentiability. To facilitate the learning of these symbolic sequences, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Paul Soulos , Edward Hu , Kate McCurdy , Yunmo Chen , Roland Fernandez , Paul Smolensky , Jianfeng Gao

Recurrent neural networks have recently been used for learning to describe images using natural language. However, it has been observed that these models generalize poorly to scenes that were not observed during training, possibly depending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Yuval Atzmon , Jonathan Berant , Vahid Kezami , Amir Globerson , Gal Chechik

Compositional generalization is the capacity to recognize and imagine a large amount of novel combinations from known components. It is a key in human intelligence, but current neural networks generally lack such ability. This report…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Yuanpeng Li

Compositional and relational learning is a hallmark of human intelligence, but one which presents challenges for neural models. One difficulty in the development of such models is the lack of benchmarks with clear compositional and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Tim Klinger , Dhaval Adjodah , Vincent Marois , Josh Joseph , Matthew Riemer , Alex 'Sandy' Pentland , Murray Campbell

Most existing recursive neural network (RvNN) architectures utilize only the structure of parse trees, ignoring syntactic tags which are provided as by-products of parsing. We present a novel RvNN architecture that can provide dynamic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Taeuk Kim , Jihun Choi , Daniel Edmiston , Sanghwan Bae , Sang-goo Lee

Generic unstructured neural networks have been shown to struggle on out-of-distribution compositional generalization. Compositional data augmentation via example recombination has transferred some prior knowledge about compositionality to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Linlu Qiu , Peter Shaw , Panupong Pasupat , Paweł Krzysztof Nowak , Tal Linzen , Fei Sha , Kristina Toutanova

Compositional generalization is the capability of a model to understand novel compositions composed of seen concepts. There are multiple levels of novel compositions including phrase-phrase level, phrase-word level, and word-word level.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Chuanhao Li , Zhen Li , Chenchen Jing , Xiaomeng Fan , Wenbo Ye , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

The extent to which neural networks are able to acquire and represent symbolic rules remains a key topic of research and debate. Much current work focuses on the impressive capabilities of large language models, as well as their often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Anna Langedijk , Jaap Jumelet , Willem Zuidema

Parts represent a basic unit of geometric and semantic similarity across different objects. We argue that part knowledge should be composable beyond the observed object classes. Towards this, we present 3D Compositional Zero-shot Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Evin Pınar Örnek , Yongqin Xian , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

Can neural networks systematically capture discrete, compositional task structure despite their continuous, distributed nature? The impressive capabilities of large-scale neural networks suggest that the answer to this question is yes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Florian Redhardt , Yassir Akram , Simon Schug

State-of-the-art spoken language understanding (SLU) models have shown tremendous success in benchmark SLU datasets, yet they still fail in many practical scenario due to the lack of model compositionality when trained on limited training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Avik Ray , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

A compositional tree refers to a tree structure on a set of random variables where each random variable is a node and composition occurs at each non-leaf node of the tree. As a generalization of compositional data, compositional trees…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-20 Bingkai Wang , Brian S. Caffo , Xi Luo , Chin-Fu Liu , Andreia V. Faria , Michael I. Miller , Yi Zhao

Neural network models often generalize poorly to mismatched domains or distributions. In NLP, this issue arises in particular when models are expected to generalize compositionally, that is, to novel combinations of familiar words and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Wang Zhu , Peter Shaw , Tal Linzen , Fei Sha

Systematic compositionality is the ability to recombine meaningful units with regular and predictable outcomes, and it's seen as key to humans' capacity for generalization in language. Recent work has studied systematic compositionality in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-20 João Loula , Marco Baroni , Brenden M. Lake

The chain-structured long short-term memory (LSTM) has showed to be effective in a wide range of problems such as speech recognition and machine translation. In this paper, we propose to extend it to tree structures, in which a memory cell…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Xiaodan Zhu , Parinaz Sobhani , Hongyu Guo

Compositional generalization is a basic mechanism in human language learning, which current neural networks struggle with. A recently proposed Disentangled sequence-to-sequence model (Dangle) shows promising generalization capability by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Hao Zheng , Mirella Lapata

Compositional generalization is a key ability of humans that enables us to learn new concepts from only a handful examples. Neural machine learning models, including the now ubiquitous Transformers, struggle to generalize in this way, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Tim Klinger , Luke Liu , Soham Dan , Maxwell Crouse , Parikshit Ram , Alexander Gray

Standard methods in deep learning for natural language processing fail to capture the compositional structure of human language that allows for systematic generalization outside of the training distribution. However, human learners readily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Jake Russin , Jason Jo , Randall C. O'Reilly , Yoshua Bengio

Humans are remarkably flexible when understanding new sentences that include combinations of concepts they have never encountered before. Recent work has shown that while deep networks can mimic some human language abilities when presented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Yen-Ling Kuo , Boris Katz , Andrei Barbu

Compositional generalization remains a foundational weakness of modern neural networks, limiting their robustness and applicability in domains requiring out-of-distribution reasoning. A central, yet unverified, assumption in neuro-symbolic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Mahnoor Shahid , Hannes Rothe