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Conceptual abstraction and analogy-making are key abilities underlying humans' abilities to learn, reason, and robustly adapt their knowledge to new domains. Despite of a long history of research on constructing AI systems with these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Melanie Mitchell

Conceptualization, a fundamental element of human cognition, plays a pivotal role in human generalizable reasoning. Generally speaking, it refers to the process of sequentially abstracting specific instances into higher-level concepts and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Weiqi Wang , Tianqing Fang , Haochen Shi , Baixuan Xu , Wenxuan Ding , Liyu Zhang , Wei Fan , Jiaxin Bai , Haoran Li , Xin Liu , Yangqiu Song

Concepts play a central role in many applications. This includes settings where concepts have to be modelled in the absence of sentence context. Previous work has therefore focused on distilling decontextualised concept embeddings from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Amit Gajbhiye , Zied Bouraoui , Na Li , Usashi Chatterjee , Luis Espinosa Anke , Steven Schockaert

We discuss some aspects of Extrapolation theory. The presentation includes many examples and open problems.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Sergey Astashkin , Mario Milman

Concept erasure is the task of erasing information about a concept (e.g., gender or race) from a representation set while retaining the maximum possible utility -- information from original representations. Concept erasure is useful in…

Nowadays, editors tend to separate different subtopics of a long Wiki-pedia article into multiple sub-articles. This separation seeks to improve human readability. However, it also has a deleterious effect on many Wikipedia-based tasks that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Muhao Chen , Changping Meng , Gang Huang , Carlo Zaniolo

Models for question answering, dialogue agents, and summarization often interpret the meaning of a sentence in a rich context and use that meaning in a new context. Taking excerpts of text can be problematic, as key pieces may not be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Eunsol Choi , Jennimaria Palomaki , Matthew Lamm , Tom Kwiatkowski , Dipanjan Das , Michael Collins

Entity disambiguation, or mapping a phrase to its canonical representation in a knowledge base, is a fundamental step in many natural language processing applications. Existing techniques based on global ranking models fail to capture the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Tiep Mai , Bichen Shi , Patrick K. Nicholson , Deepak Ajwani , Alessandra Sala

In conceptual modeling (CM), humans apply abstraction to represent excerpts of reality for means of understanding and communication, and processing by machines. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is applied to vast amounts of data to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Dominik Bork , Syed Juned Ali , Ben Roelens

*Concept-based explanations* offer a promising approach for explaining the predictions of deep neural networks in terms of high-level, human-understandable concepts. However, existing methods either do not establish a causal connection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ronaldo Canizales , Divya Gopinath , Corina Păsăreanu , Ravi Mangal

In concept erasure, a model is modified to selectively prevent it from generating a target concept. Despite the rapid development of new methods, it remains unclear how thoroughly these approaches remove the target concept from the model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Kevin Lu , Nicky Kriplani , Rohit Gandikota , Minh Pham , David Bau , Chinmay Hegde , Niv Cohen

Generating a huge number of association rules reduces their utility in the decision making process, done by domain experts. In this context, based on the theory of Formal Concept Analysis, we propose to extend the notion of Formal Concept…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Wafa Tebourski Ourida Ben Boubaker Saidi

Ontologies formalise how the concepts from a given domain are interrelated. Despite their clear potential as a backbone for explainable AI, existing ontologies tend to be highly incomplete, which acts as a significant barrier to their more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Steven Schockaert , Yazmín Ibáñez-García , Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto

An agent who interacts with a wide population of other agents needs to be aware that there may be variations in their understanding of the world. Furthermore, the machinery which they use to perceive may be inherently different, as is the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Rodolfo Corona , Stephan Alaniz , Zeynep Akata

Referring expression comprehension aims to localize objects identified by natural language descriptions. This is a challenging task as it requires understanding of both visual and language domains. One nature is that each object can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Yi-Wen Chen , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Learning vectors that capture the meaning of concepts remains a fundamental challenge. Somewhat surprisingly, perhaps, pre-trained language models have thus far only enabled modest improvements to the quality of such concept embeddings.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Na Li , Hanane Kteich , Zied Bouraoui , Steven Schockaert

Many interpretable AI approaches have been proposed to provide plausible explanations for a model's decision-making. However, configuring an explainable model that effectively communicates among computational modules has received less…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Jinyung Hong , Keun Hee Park , Theodore P. Pavlic

Machine learning about language can be improved by supplying it with specific knowledge and sources of external information. We present here a new version of the linked open data resource ConceptNet that is particularly well suited to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Robyn Speer , Joshua Chin , Catherine Havasi

The last decade has seen huge progress in the development of advanced machine learning models; however, those models are powerless unless human users can interpret them. Here we show how the mind's construction of concepts and meaning can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-04 Nick Condry

Can artificial intelligence discover, from raw experience and without human supervision, concepts that humans have discovered? One challenge is that human concepts themselves are fluid: conceptual boundaries can shift, split, and merge as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Zhengmian Hu