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Human reasoning is grounded in an ability to identify highly abstract commonalities governing superficially dissimilar visual inputs. Recent efforts to develop algorithms with this capacity have largely focused on approaches that require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Taylor W. Webb , Shuhao Fu , Trevor Bihl , Keith J. Holyoak , Hongjing Lu

Visual oddity task was conceived as a universal ethnic-independent analytic intelligence test for humans. Advancements in artificial intelligence led to important breakthroughs, yet competing with humans on such analytic intelligence tasks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Stanisław Woźniak , Hlynur Jónsson , Giovanni Cherubini , Angeliki Pantazi , Evangelos Eleftheriou

Making neural visual generative models controllable by logical reasoning systems is promising for improving faithfulness, transparency, and generalizability. We propose the Abductive visual Generation (AbdGen) approach to build such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yifei Peng , Zijie Zha , Yu Jin , Zhexu Luo , Wang-Zhou Dai , Zhong Ren , Yao-Xiang Ding , Kun Zhou

Inductive reasoning is a core component of human intelligence. In the past research of inductive reasoning within computer science, formal language is used as representations of knowledge (facts and rules, more specifically). However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Zonglin Yang , Li Dong , Xinya Du , Hao Cheng , Erik Cambria , Xiaodong Liu , Jianfeng Gao , Furu Wei

Juba recently proposed a formulation of learning abductive reasoning from examples, in which both the relative plausibility of various explanations, as well as which explanations are valid, are learned directly from data. The main…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Brendan Juba , Zongyi Li , Evan Miller

A core process in human cognition is analogical mapping: the ability to identify a similar relational structure between different situations. We introduce a novel task, Visual Analogies of Situation Recognition, adapting the classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yonatan Bitton , Ron Yosef , Eli Strugo , Dafna Shahaf , Roy Schwartz , Gabriel Stanovsky

Recent work in cognitive reasoning and computer vision has engendered an increasing popularity for the Violation-of-Expectation (VoE) paradigm in synthetic datasets. Inspired by work in infant psychology, researchers have started evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Arijit Dasgupta , Jiafei Duan , Marcelo H. Ang , Cheston Tan

Among the most impressive recent applications of neural decoding is the visual representation decoding, where the category of an object that a subject either sees or imagines is inferred by observing his/her brain activity. Even though…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Angeliki Papadimitriou , Nikolaos Passalis , Anastasios Tefas

One of the primary challenges faced by deep learning is the degree to which current methods exploit superficial statistics and dataset bias, rather than learning to generalise over the specific representations they have experienced. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Damien Teney , Peng Wang , Jiewei Cao , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Exploiting relationships among objects has achieved remarkable progress in interpreting images or videos by natural language. Most existing methods resort to first detecting objects and their relationships, and then generating textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Jingyi Hou , Xinxiao Wu , Yayun Qi , Wentian Zhao , Jiebo Luo , Yunde Jia

Existing methods for visual reasoning attempt to directly map inputs to outputs using black-box architectures without explicitly modeling the underlying reasoning processes. As a result, these black-box models often learn to exploit biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Justin Johnson , Bharath Hariharan , Laurens van der Maaten , Judy Hoffman , Li Fei-Fei , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Ross Girshick

Spatial-temporal reasoning is a challenging task in Artificial Intelligence (AI) due to its demanding but unique nature: a theoretic requirement on representing and reasoning based on spatial-temporal knowledge in mind, and an applied…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Chi Zhang , Baoxiong Jia , Song-Chun Zhu , Yixin Zhu

Visual question answering requires high-order reasoning about an image, which is a fundamental capability needed by machine systems to follow complex directives. Recently, modular networks have been shown to be an effective framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 David Mascharka , Philip Tran , Ryan Soklaski , Arjun Majumdar

The growing range of applications of Machine Learning (ML) in a multitude of settings motivates the ability of computing small explanations for predictions made. Small explanations are generally accepted as easier for human decision makers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Alexey Ignatiev , Nina Narodytska , Joao Marques-Silva

We provide a rigorous definition of the visual cause of a behavior that is broadly applicable to the visually driven behavior in humans, animals, neurons, robots and other perceiving systems. Our framework generalizes standard accounts of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-08 Krzysztof Chalupka , Pietro Perona , Frederick Eberhardt

Temporal grounding is the task of locating a specific segment from an untrimmed video according to a query sentence. This task has achieved significant momentum in the computer vision community as it enables activity grounding beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Linchao Zhu , Wenqiao Zhang , Yi Yang , Tat-Seng Chua , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang

Abductive Reasoning is a task of inferring the most plausible hypothesis given a set of observations. In literature, the community has approached to solve this challenge by classifying/generating a likely hypothesis that does not contradict…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Seungone Kim

Robotic assistance in scientific laboratories requires procedurally correct long-horizon manipulation, reliable execution under limited supervision, and robustness in low-demonstration regimes. Such conditions greatly challenge end-to-end…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jinghan Yang , Jingyi Hou , Xinbo Yu , Wei He , Yifan Wu

When thinking with images, humans rarely rely on a single glance: they revisit visual evidence while reasoning. In contrast, most Multimodal Language Models encode an image once to key-value cache and then reason purely in text, making it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiwan Chung , Junhyeok Kim , Siyeol Kim , Jaeyoung Lee , Min Soo Kim , Youngjae Yu

Neural networks represent data as projections on trained weights in a high dimensional manifold. The trained weights act as a knowledge base consisting of causal class dependencies. Inference built on features that identify these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib