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We equip a smaller Language Model to generalise to answering challenging compositional questions that have not been seen in training. To do so we propose a combination of multitask supervised pretraining on up to 93 tasks designed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tim Hartill , Neset Tan , Michael Witbrock , Patricia J. Riddle

Recent video question answering benchmarks indicate that state-of-the-art models struggle to answer compositional questions. However, it remains unclear which types of compositional reasoning cause models to mispredict. Furthermore, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Mona Gandhi , Mustafa Omer Gul , Eva Prakash , Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin , Ranjay Krishna , Maneesh Agrawala

Small language models fine-tuned for graph property estimation have demonstrated strong in-distribution performance, yet their generalization capabilities beyond training conditions remain poorly understood. In this work, we systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Michal Podstawski

Humans understand new combinations of words encountered if they are combinations of words recognized from different contexts, an ability called Compositional Generalization. The COGS benchmark (Kim and Linzen, 2020) arXiv:2010.05465 reports…

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Systematic compositionality is an essential mechanism in human language, allowing the recombination of known parts to create novel expressions. However, existing neural models have been shown to lack this basic ability in learning symbolic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yichen Jiang , Mohit Bansal

Humans can reason compositionally when presented with new tasks. Previous research shows that appropriate prompting techniques enable large language models (LLMs) to solve artificial compositional generalization tasks such as SCAN. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Andrew Drozdov , Nathanael Schärli , Ekin Akyürek , Nathan Scales , Xinying Song , Xinyun Chen , Olivier Bousquet , Denny Zhou

Numerous models for grounded language understanding have been recently proposed, including (i) generic models that can be easily adapted to any given task and (ii) intuitively appealing modular models that require background knowledge to be…

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Research on question answering with knowledge base has recently seen an increasing use of deep architectures. In this extended abstract, we study the application of the neural machine translation paradigm for question parsing. We employ a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Tommaso Soru , Edgard Marx , André Valdestilhas , Diego Esteves , Diego Moussallem , Gustavo Publio

We introduce and implement a cognitively plausible model for learning from generic language, statements that express generalizations about members of a category and are an important aspect of concept development in language acquisition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Deniz Beser , Joe Cecil , Marjorie Freedman , Jacob Lichtefeld , Mitch Marcus , Sarah Payne , Charles Yang

Composition-the ability to generate myriad variations from finite means-is believed to underlie powerful generalization. However, compositional generalization remains a key challenge for deep learning. A widely held assumption is that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qiyao Liang , Daoyuan Qian , Liu Ziyin , Ila Fiete

We introduce a variety of models, trained on a supervised image captioning corpus to predict the image features for a given caption, to perform sentence representation grounding. We train a grounded sentence encoder that achieves good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Douwe Kiela , Alexis Conneau , Allan Jabri , Maximilian Nickel

Compositional generalization is a basic mechanism in human language learning, but current neural networks lack such ability. In this paper, we conduct fundamental research for encoding compositionality in neural networks. Conventional…

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Real-world applications of machine learning models often confront data distribution shifts, wherein discrepancies exist between the training and test data distributions. In the common multi-domain multi-class setup, as the number of classes…

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In multimodal graph learning, graph structures that integrate information from multiple sources, such as vision and text, can more comprehensively model complex entity relationships. However, the continuous growth of their data scale poses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Lian Shen , Zhendan Chen , Meijia Song , Yinhui jiang , Ziming Su , Juan Liu , Xiangrong Liu

While interest in models that generalize at test time to new compositions has risen in recent years, benchmarks in the visually-grounded domain have thus far been restricted to synthetic images. In this work, we propose COVR, a new test-bed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Ben Bogin , Shivanshu Gupta , Matt Gardner , Jonathan Berant

Combining the message-passing paradigm with the global attention mechanism has emerged as an effective framework for learning over graphs. The message-passing paradigm and the global attention mechanism fundamentally generate node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haimin Zhang , Jiahao Xia , Min Xu

We propose Composition Sampling, a simple but effective method to generate diverse outputs for conditional generation of higher quality compared to previous stochastic decoding strategies. It builds on recently proposed plan-based neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Shashi Narayan , Gonçalo Simões , Yao Zhao , Joshua Maynez , Dipanjan Das , Michael Collins , Mirella Lapata

There has been great progress in unifying various table-to-text tasks using a single encoder-decoder model trained via multi-task learning (Xie et al., 2022). However, existing methods typically encode task information with a simple dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jifan Chen , Yuhao Zhang , Lan Liu , Rui Dong , Xinchi Chen , Patrick Ng , William Yang Wang , Zhiheng Huang

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.…

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