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The ability to construct mental models of the world is a central aspect of understanding. Similarly, visual understanding can be viewed as the ability to construct a representative model of the system depicted in an image. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Sagi Eppel

We study the problem of concept induction in visual reasoning, i.e., identifying concepts and their hierarchical relationships from question-answer pairs associated with images; and achieve an interpretable model via working on the induced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Zhonghao Wang , Kai Wang , Mo Yu , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Humphrey Shi

Multimodal geometry reasoning requires models to jointly understand visual diagrams and perform structured symbolic inference, yet current vision--language models struggle with complex geometric constructions due to limited training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Haobo Lin , Tianyi Bai , Chen Chen , Jiajun Zhang , Bohan Zeng , Wentao Zhang , Binhang Yuan

Visual representation learning is ubiquitous in various real-world applications, including visual comprehension, video understanding, multi-modal analysis, human-computer interaction, and urban computing. Due to the emergence of huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yang Liu , Yushen Wei , Hong Yan , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

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

Quantifying the degree of similarity between images is a key copyright issue for image-based machine learning. In legal doctrine however, determining the degree of similarity between works requires subjective analysis, and fact-finders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Alessandro Achille , Greg Ver Steeg , Tian Yu Liu , Matthew Trager , Carson Klingenberg , Stefano Soatto

Translating information between text and image is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence that connects natural language processing and computer vision. In the past few years, performance in image caption generation has seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Hao Dong , Jingqing Zhang , Douglas McIlwraith , Yike Guo

We present PartComposer: a framework for part-level concept learning from single-image examples that enables text-to-image diffusion models to compose novel objects from meaningful components. Existing methods either struggle with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Junyu Liu , R. Kenny Jones , Daniel Ritchie

We present VISPROG, a neuro-symbolic approach to solving complex and compositional visual tasks given natural language instructions. VISPROG avoids the need for any task-specific training. Instead, it uses the in-context learning ability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Tanmay Gupta , Aniruddha Kembhavi

Human intelligence effortlessly interprets visual scenes along a rich spectrum of semantic dimensions. However, existing approaches to language-grounded visual concept learning are limited to a few predefined primitive axes, such as color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Whie Jung , Semin Kim , Junee Kim , Seunghoon Hong

Visual imagery does not consist of solitary objects, but instead reflects the composition of a multitude of fluid concepts. While there have been great advances in visual representation learning, such advances have focused on building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Austin Stone , Hagen Soltau , Robert Geirhos , Xi Yi , Ye Xia , Bingyi Cao , Kaifeng Chen , Abhijit Ogale , Jonathon Shlens

In this paper, we address the challenging problem of 3D concept grounding (i.e. segmenting and learning visual concepts) by looking at RGBD images and reasoning about paired questions and answers. Existing visual reasoning approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Yining Hong , Yilun Du , Chunru Lin , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Vision-Language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on multimodal tasks but often fail at systematic visual reasoning tasks, leading to inconsistent or illogical outputs. Neuro-symbolic methods promise to address this by inducing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Antonia Wüst , Wolfgang Stammer , Hikaru Shindo , Lukas Helff , Devendra Singh Dhami , Kristian Kersting

Compositional learning, mastering the ability to combine basic concepts and construct more intricate ones, is crucial for human cognition, especially in human language comprehension and visual perception. This notion is tightly connected to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Sania Sinha , Tanawan Premsri , Parisa Kordjamshidi

The ability to think abstractly and reason by analogy is a prerequisite to rapidly adapt to new conditions, tackle newly encountered problems by decomposing them, and synthesize knowledge to solve problems comprehensively. We present…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jakub Bednarek , Krzysztof Krawiec

Humans leverage compositionality to efficiently learn new concepts, understanding how familiar parts can combine together to form novel objects. In contrast, popular computer vision models struggle to make the same types of inferences,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yanli Zhou , Reuben Feinman , Brenden M. Lake

Visually-situated language is ubiquitous -- sources range from textbooks with diagrams to web pages with images and tables, to mobile apps with buttons and forms. Perhaps due to this diversity, previous work has typically relied on…

We describe a procedure for explaining neurons in deep representations by identifying compositional logical concepts that closely approximate neuron behavior. Compared to prior work that uses atomic labels as explanations, analyzing neurons…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Jesse Mu , Jacob Andreas

Enabling generative models to decompose visual concepts from a single image is a complex and challenging problem. In this paper, we study a new and challenging task, customized concept decomposition, wherein the objective is to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Zhi Xu , Shaozhe Hao , Kai Han