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Compositionality is a common property in many modalities including natural languages and images, but the compositional generalization of multi-modal models is not well-understood. In this paper, we identify two sources of visual-linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Chenwei Wu , Li Erran Li , Stefano Ermon , Patrick Haffner , Rong Ge , Zaiwei Zhang

Language model pre-training, such as BERT, has achieved remarkable results in many NLP tasks. However, it is unclear why the pre-training-then-fine-tuning paradigm can improve performance and generalization capability across different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Yaru Hao , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Ke Xu

Recently, multilingual BERT works remarkably well on cross-lingual transfer tasks, superior to static non-contextualized word embeddings. In this work, we provide an in-depth experimental study to supplement the existing literature of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Chi-Liang Liu , Tsung-Yuan Hsu , Yung-Sung Chuang , Hung-yi Lee

Compositionality has long been considered a key explanatory property underlying human intelligence: arbitrary concepts can be composed into novel complex combinations, permitting the acquisition of an open ended, potentially infinite…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Jacob Russin , Sam Whitman McGrath , Danielle J. Williams

Large Pre-trained Language Models (PLM) have become the most desirable starting point in the field of NLP, as they have become remarkably good at solving many individual tasks. Despite such success, in this paper, we argue that current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Hangyeol Yu , Myeongho Jeong , Jamin Shin , Hyeongdon Moon , Juneyoung Park , Seungtaek Choi

Humans can reason compositionally whilst grounding language utterances to the real world. Recent benchmarks like ReaSCAN use navigation tasks grounded in a grid world to assess whether neural models exhibit similar capabilities. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ankur Sikarwar , Arkil Patel , Navin Goyal

Natural language allows us to refer to novel composite concepts by combining expressions denoting their parts according to systematic rules, a property known as \emph{compositionality}. In this paper, we study whether the language emerging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Rahma Chaabouni , Eugene Kharitonov , Diane Bouchacourt , Emmanuel Dupoux , Marco Baroni

Recent findings in multi-agent deep learning systems point towards the emergence of compositional languages. These claims are often made without exact analysis or testing of the language. In this work, we analyze the emergent language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Bence Keresztury , Elia Bruni

Pretraining on large, semantically rich datasets is key for developing language models. Surprisingly, recent studies have shown that even synthetic data, generated procedurally through simple semantic-free algorithms, can yield some of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zachary Shinnick , Liangze Jiang , Hemanth Saratchandran , Anton van den Hengel , Damien Teney

Transformer architectures show significant promise for natural language processing. Given that a single pretrained model can be fine-tuned to perform well on many different tasks, these networks appear to extract generally useful linguistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Andy Coenen , Emily Reif , Ann Yuan , Been Kim , Adam Pearce , Fernanda Viégas , Martin Wattenberg

The compositional structure of language enables humans to decompose complex phrases and map them to novel visual concepts, showcasing flexible intelligence. While several algorithms exhibit compositionality, they fail to elucidate how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Zijun Lin , M Ganesh Kumar , Cheston Tan

Tremendous amounts of multimedia associated with speech information are driving an urgent need to develop efficient and effective automatic summarization methods. To this end, we have seen rapid progress in applying supervised deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Shi-Yan Weng , Tien-Hong Lo , Berlin Chen

Recent work has shown success in incorporating pre-trained models like BERT to improve NLP systems. However, existing pre-trained models lack of causal knowledge which prevents today's NLP systems from thinking like humans. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Zhongyang Li , Xiao Ding , Kuo Liao , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

We propose a novel cost aggregation network, called Cost Aggregation Transformers (CATs), to find dense correspondences between semantically similar images with additional challenges posed by large intra-class appearance and geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Seokju Cho , Sunghwan Hong , Sangryul Jeon , Yunsung Lee , Kwanghoon Sohn , Seungryong Kim

Large-scale pre-trained language models such as BERT are popular solutions for text classification. Due to the superior performance of these advanced methods, nowadays, people often directly train them for a few epochs and deploy the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yu-Chen Lin , Si-An Chen , Jie-Jyun Liu , Chih-Jen Lin

Recently, Transformers have been introduced into the field of acoustics recognition. They are pre-trained on large-scale datasets using methods such as supervised learning and semi-supervised learning, demonstrating robust generality--It…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yun Liang , Hai Lin , Shaojian Qiu , Yihang Zhang

The use of Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model and its variants for classifying collaborative problem solving (CPS) has been extensively explored within the AI in Education community. However, limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kester Wong , Sahan Bulathwela , Mutlu Cukurova

Human beings possess the most sophisticated computational machinery in the known universe. We can understand language of rich descriptive power, and communicate in the same environment with astonishing clarity. Two of the many contributors…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Karthikeya Ramesh Kaushik , Andrea E. Martin

We introduce CRAFT, a multi-agent benchmark for evaluating pragmatic communication in large language models under strict partial information. In this setting, multiple agents with complementary but incomplete views must coordinate through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Abhijnan Nath , Hannah VanderHoeven , Nikhil Krishnaswamy

Pre-training Transformer from large-scale raw texts and fine-tuning on the desired task have achieved state-of-the-art results on diverse NLP tasks. However, it is unclear what the learned attention captures. The attention computed by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yau-Shian Wang , Hung-Yi Lee , Yun-Nung Chen