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The nature of abstract reasoning is a matter of debate. Modern artificial neural network (ANN) models, like large language models, demonstrate impressive success when tested on abstract reasoning problems. However, it has been argued that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Tomer Barak , Yonatan Loewenstein

Deep learning has led researchers to rethink the relationship between memorization and generalization. In many settings, memorization does not hurt generalization due to implicit regularization and may help by memorizing long-tailed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Mo Zhou , Haoyang Ma , Rong Ge

A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to construct self-contained chunks of knowledge and adequately reuse them in novel combinations for solving different yet structurally related problems. Learning such compositional structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Jorge A. Mendez , Eric Eaton

Transformers trained on huge text corpora exhibit a remarkable set of capabilities, e.g., performing basic arithmetic. Given the inherent compositional nature of language, one can expect the model to learn to compose these capabilities,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Rahul Ramesh , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Mikail Khona , Robert P. Dick , Hidenori Tanaka

Humans excel at continually acquiring, consolidating, and retaining information from an ever-changing environment, whereas artificial neural networks (ANNs) exhibit catastrophic forgetting. There are considerable differences in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Compositional generalization is a crucial step towards developing data-efficient intelligent machines that generalize in human-like ways. In this work, we tackle a challenging form of distribution shift, termed compositional shift, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Divyat Mahajan , Mohammad Pezeshki , Charles Arnal , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Kartik Ahuja , Pascal Vincent

Compositional Generalization (CG) embodies the ability to comprehend novel combinations of familiar concepts, representing a significant cognitive leap in human intellectual advancement. Despite its critical importance, the deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jingwen Fu , Zhizheng Zhang , Yan Lu , Nanning Zheng

Flexible neural sequence models outperform grammar- and automaton-based counterparts on a variety of tasks. However, neural models perform poorly in settings requiring compositional generalization beyond the training data -- particularly to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Ekin Akyürek , Afra Feyza Akyürek , Jacob Andreas

The principle of compositionality, which enables natural language to represent complex concepts via a structured combination of simpler ones, allows us to convey an open-ended set of messages using a limited vocabulary. If compositionality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Yi Ren , Shangmin Guo , Matthieu Labeau , Shay B. Cohen , Simon Kirby

We provide a study of how induced model sparsity can help achieve compositional generalization and better sample efficiency in grounded language learning problems. We consider simple language-conditioned navigation problems in a grid world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Sam Spilsbury , Alexander Ilin

A central problem to understanding intelligence is the concept of generalisation. This allows previously learnt structure to be exploited to solve tasks in novel situations differing in their particularities. We take inspiration from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-30 James C. R. Whittington , Timothy H. Muller , Shirley Mark , Caswell Barry , Timothy E. J. Behrens

Neural processes are a family of models which use neural networks to directly parametrise a map from data sets to predictions. Directly parametrising this map enables the use of expressive neural networks in small-data problems where neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-20 Wessel P. Bruinsma

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have emerged as an essential tool in machine learning, achieving remarkable success across diverse domains, including image and speech generation, game playing, and robotics. However, there exist…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Samuel Schmidgall , Jascha Achterberg , Thomas Miconi , Louis Kirsch , Rojin Ziaei , S. Pardis Hajiseyedrazi , Jason Eshraghian

Algorithmic music composition is a way of composing musical pieces with minimal to no human intervention. While recurrent neural networks are traditionally applied to many sequence-to-sequence prediction tasks, including successful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Moseli Mots'oehli , Anna Sergeevna Bosman , Johan Pieter De Villiers

Humans have the natural ability to recognize actions even if the objects involved in the action or the background are changed. Humans can abstract away the action from the appearance of the objects which is referred to as compositionality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ramanathan Rajendiran , Debaditya Roy , Basura Fernando

Humans excel at solving novel reasoning problems from minimal exposure, guided by inductive biases, assumptions about which entities and relationships matter. Yet the computational form of these biases and their neural implementation remain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-22 Quan Do , Caroline Ahn , Leah Bakst , Michael Pascale , Joseph T. McGuire , Chantal E. Stern , Michael E. Hasselmo

Abstract reasoning and logic inference are difficult problems for neural networks, yet essential to their applicability in highly structured domains. In this work we demonstrate that a well known technique such as spectral regularization…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Victor Kolev , Bogdan Georgiev , Svetlin Penkov

What do artificial neural networks (ANNs) learn? The machine learning (ML) community shares the narrative that ANNs must develop abstract human concepts to perform complex tasks. Some go even further and believe that these concepts are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Timo Freiesleben

Artificial neural networks (ANNs), originally inspired by biological neural networks (BNNs), have achieved remarkable successes in many tasks such as visual representation learning. However, whether there exists semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Lin Zhao , Haixing Dai , Zihao Wu , Zhenxiang Xiao , Lu Zhang , David Weizhong Liu , Xintao Hu , Xi Jiang , Sheng Li , Dajiang Zhu , Tianming Liu

Algorithmic composition is the partial or total automation of the process of music composition by using computers. Since the 1950s, different computational techniques related to Artificial Intelligence have been used for algorithmic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Jose David Fernandez , Francisco Vico