English
Related papers

Related papers: Does Deep Learning Learn to Abstract? A Systematic…

200 papers

Neural network models are widely used in a variety of domains, often as black-box solutions, since they are not directly interpretable for humans. The field of explainable artificial intelligence aims at developing explanation methods to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Patrik Hammersborg , Inga Strümke

There has been a gap between artificial intelligence and human intelligence. In this paper, we identify three key elements forming human intelligence, and suggest that abstraction learning combines these elements and is thus a way to bridge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Fei Deng , Jinsheng Ren , Feng Chen

Predicting stochastic cellular dynamics as emerging from the mechanistic models of molecular interactions is a long-standing challenge in systems biology: low-level chemical reaction network (CRN) models give raise to a highly-dimensional…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-06 Tatjana Petrov , Denis Repin

Deep neural networks have shown superior performance in many regimes to remember familiar patterns with large amounts of data. However, the standard supervised deep learning paradigm is still limited when facing the need to learn new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Jing Shi , Jiaming Xu , Yiqun Yao , Bo Xu

Researchers have been highly active to investigate the classical machine learning workflow and integrate best practices from the software engineering lifecycle. However, deep learning exhibits deviations that are not yet covered in this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Janosch Baltensperger , Pasquale Salza , Harald C. Gall

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across tasks such as mathematics, coding, and reasoning, yet their learning ability, which is crucial for adapting to dynamic environments and acquiring new knowledge, remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zhengyu Hu , Jianxun Lian , Zheyuan Xiao , Seraphina Zhang , Tianfu Wang , Nicholas Jing Yuan , Xing Xie , Hui Xiong

A central challenge for cognitive science is to explain how abstract concepts are acquired from limited experience. This has often been framed in terms of a dichotomy between connectionist and symbolic cognitive models. Here, we highlight a…

This article reviews meta-learning also known as learning-to-learn which seeks rapid and accurate model adaptation to unseen tasks with applications in highly automated AI, few-shot learning, natural language processing and robotics. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Huimin Peng

Modular meta-learning is a new framework that generalizes to unseen datasets by combining a small set of neural modules in different ways. In this work we propose abstract graph networks: using graphs as abstractions of a system's subparts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Ferran Alet , Maria Bauza , Alberto Rodriguez , Tomas Lozano-Perez , Leslie P. Kaelbling

Deep learning technologies have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in a wide range of tasks, and deep learning holds the potential to advance a multitude of applications, including in edge computing, where deep models are deployed on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Dalin Zhang , Kaixuan Chen , Yan Zhao , Bin Yang , Lina Yao , Christian S. Jensen

Probabilistic abstract interpretation is a theory used to extract particular properties of a computer program when it is infeasible to test every single inputs. In this paper we apply the theory on neural networks for the same purpose: to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhuofan Zhang , Herbert Wiklicky

The task of shape abstraction with semantic part consistency is challenging due to the complex geometries of natural objects. Recent methods learn to represent an object shape using a set of simple primitives to fit the target.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Di Liu , Long Zhao , Qilong Zhangli , Yunhe Gao , Ting Liu , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Compared with traditional deep learning techniques, continual learning enables deep neural networks to learn continually and adaptively. Deep neural networks have to learn new tasks and overcome forgetting the knowledge obtained from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yujiang He

Questions convey information about the questioner, namely what one does not know. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to allow a learning agent to ask what it considers as tricky to predict, in the course of producing a final output.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Sungmin Kang , David Keetae Park , Jaehyuk Chang , Jaegul Choo

Humans flexibly solve new problems that differ qualitatively from those they were trained on. This ability to generalize is supported by learned concepts that capture structure common across different problems. Here we develop a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Lucas Y. Tian , Kevin Ellis , Marta Kryven , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Many recent studies have found evidence for emergent reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs), but debate persists concerning the robustness of these capabilities, and the extent to which they depend on structured reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yukang Yang , Declan Campbell , Kaixuan Huang , Mengdi Wang , Jonathan Cohen , Taylor Webb

Systematic Generalization refers to a learning algorithm's ability to extrapolate learned behavior to unseen situations that are distinct but semantically similar to its training data. As shown in recent work, state-of-the-art deep learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Tong Gao , Qi Huang , Raymond J. Mooney

We investigate the extent to which modern, neural language models are susceptible to structural priming, the phenomenon whereby the structure of a sentence makes the same structure more probable in a follow-up sentence. We explore how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Arabella Sinclair , Jaap Jumelet , Willem Zuidema , Raquel Fernández

Whether neural networks can learn abstract reasoning or whether they merely rely on superficial statistics is a topic of recent debate. Here, we propose a dataset and challenge designed to probe abstract reasoning, inspired by a well-known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-12 David G. T. Barrett , Felix Hill , Adam Santoro , Ari S. Morcos , Timothy Lillicrap

Process mining techniques focus on extracting insight in processes from event logs. In many cases, events recorded in the event log are too fine-grained, causing process discovery algorithms to discover incomprehensible process models or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Niek Tax , Natalia Sidorova , Reinder Haakma , Wil M. P. van der Aalst