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This paper presents ReasonFormer, a unified reasoning framework for mirroring the modular and compositional reasoning process of humans in complex decision-making. Inspired by dual-process theory in cognitive science, the representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Wanjun Zhong , Tingting Ma , Jiahai Wang , Jian Yin , Tiejun Zhao , Chin-Yew Lin , Nan Duan

While sequence-to-sequence models have shown remarkable generalization power across several natural language tasks, their construct of solutions are argued to be less compositional than human-like generalization. In this paper, we present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Kris Korrel , Dieuwke Hupkes , Verna Dankers , Elia Bruni

This work proposes to combine neural networks with the compositional hierarchy of human bodies for efficient and complete human parsing. We formulate the approach as a neural information fusion framework. Our model assembles the information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Wenguan Wang , Zhijie Zhang , Siyuan Qi , Jianbing Shen , Yanwei Pang , Ling Shao

Compositional generalization, representing the model's ability to generate text with new attribute combinations obtained by recombining single attributes from the training data, is a crucial property for multi-aspect controllable text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Tianqi Zhong , Zhaoyi Li , Quan Wang , Linqi Song , Ying Wei , Defu Lian , Zhendong Mao

Compositional Natural Language Inference has been explored to assess the true abilities of neural models to perform NLI. Yet, current evaluations assume models to have full access to all primitive inferences in advance, in contrast to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Xiyan Fu , Anette Frank

Despite ample evidence that our concepts, our cognitive architecture, and mathematics itself are all deeply compositional, few models take advantage of this structure. We therefore propose a radically compositional approach to computational…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-18 Toby B. St Clere Smithe

In complex inferential tasks like question answering, machine learning models must confront two challenges: the need to implement a compositional reasoning process, and, in many applications, the need for this reasoning process to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Ronghang Hu , Jacob Andreas , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

Compositional generalization--understanding unseen combinations of seen primitives--is an essential reasoning capability in human intelligence. The AI community mainly studies this capability by fine-tuning neural networks on lots of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Shengnan An , Zeqi Lin , Qiang Fu , Bei Chen , Nanning Zheng , Jian-Guang Lou , Dongmei Zhang

Machine learning algorithms have achieved superhuman performance in specific complex domains. However, learning online from few examples and compositional learning for efficient generalization across domains remain elusive. In humans, such…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-11 V. A. Aksyuk

Humans have the ability to learn novel compositional concepts by recalling and generalizing primitive concepts acquired from past experiences. Inspired by this observation, in this paper, we propose MetaReVision, a retrieval-enhanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Guangyue Xu , Parisa Kordjamshidi , Joyce Chai

Although neural module networks have an architectural bias towards compositionality, they require gold standard layouts to generalize systematically in practice. When instead learning layouts and modules jointly, compositionality does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ankit Vani , Max Schwarzer , Yuchen Lu , Eeshan Dhekane , Aaron Courville

What explains the dramatic progress from 20th-century to 21st-century AI, and how can the remaining limitations of current AI be overcome? The widely accepted narrative attributes this progress to massive increases in the quantity of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Paul Smolensky , R. Thomas McCoy , Roland Fernandez , Matthew Goldrick , Jianfeng Gao

Current learning models often struggle with human-like systematic generalization, particularly in learning compositional rules from limited data and extrapolating them to novel combinations. We introduce the Neural-Symbolic Recursive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Qing Li , Yixin Zhu , Yitao Liang , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Modern neural machine translation (NMT) models have achieved competitive performance in standard benchmarks such as WMT. However, there still exist significant issues such as robustness, domain generalization, etc. In this paper, we study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yafu Li , Yongjing Yin , Yulong Chen , Yue Zhang

Composing autoregressive models remains a core challenge in understanding how large language models can combine behaviors or skills learned across tasks. We introduce a new and principled composition strategy for autoregressive systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Aakash Kumar , Maria Sofia Bucarelli , Emanuele Natale

Neurons are the fundamental building blocks of deep neural networks, and their interconnections allow AI to achieve unprecedented results. Motivated by the goal of understanding how neurons encode information, compositional explanations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Biagio La Rosa , Leilani H. Gilpin

A key feature of human intelligence is the ability to generalize beyond the training distribution, for instance, parsing longer sentences than seen in the past. Currently, deep neural networks struggle to generalize robustly to such shifts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Soham Dan , Osbert Bastani , Dan Roth

In recent years, it has been shown empirically that standard disentangled latent variable models do not support robust compositional learning in the visual domain. Indeed, in spite of being designed with the goal of factorising datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Milton L. Montero , Jeffrey S. Bowers , Gaurav Malhotra

Compositional generalization is the ability of generalizing novel compositions from seen primitives, and has received much attention in vision-and-language (V\&L) recently. Due to the multi-modal nature of V\&L tasks, the primitives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chuanhao Li , Wenbo Ye , Zhen Li , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Deep neural networks drive the success of natural language processing. A fundamental property of language is its compositional structure, allowing humans to systematically produce forms for new meanings. For humans, languages with more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Lukas Galke , Yoav Ram , Limor Raviv