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Compositional generalization is a key facet of human cognition, but lacking in current AI tools such as vision-language models. Previous work examined whether a compositional tensor-based sentence semantics can overcome the challenge, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Hala Hawashin , Mina Abbaszadeh , Nicholas Joseph , Beth Pearson , Martha Lewis , Mehrnoosh sadrzadeh

Many tasks can be composed from a few independent components. This gives rise to a combinatorial explosion of possible tasks, only some of which might be encountered during training. Under what circumstances can transformers compositionally…

Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models are prevalent in semantic parsing, but have been found to struggle at out-of-distribution compositional generalization. While specialized model architectures and pre-training of seq2seq models have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Jonathan Herzig , Peter Shaw , Ming-Wei Chang , Kelvin Guu , Panupong Pasupat , Yuan Zhang

Large language models benefit from training with a large amount of unlabeled text, which gives them increasingly fluent and diverse generation capabilities. However, using these models for text generation that takes into account target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Dian Yu , Zhou Yu , Kenji Sagae

We consider the task of text generation in language models with constraints specified in natural language. To this end, we first create a challenging benchmark Cognac that provides as input to the model a topic with example text, along with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Howard Chen , Huihan Li , Danqi Chen , Karthik Narasimhan

Continual post-training adapts a single text-to-image diffusion model to learn new tasks without incurring the cost of separate models, but naive post-training causes forgetting of pretrained knowledge and undermines zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Zhehao Huang , Yuhang Liu , Yixin Lou , Zhengbao He , Mingzhen He , Wenxing Zhou , Tao Li , Kehan Li , Zeyi Huang , Xiaolin Huang

Machine-Generated Text (MGT) is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from Human-Written Text (HWT). This trend has exacerbated malicious activities such as fake news and online fraud. The generalization ability of fine-tuned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Anyang Song , Ying Cheng , Yiqian Xu , Rui Feng

Text style transfer aims to controllably generate text with targeted stylistic changes while maintaining core meaning from the source sentence constant. Many of the existing style transfer benchmarks primarily focus on individual high-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Yiwei Lyu , Paul Pu Liang , Hai Pham , Eduard Hovy , Barnabás Póczos , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency

Text-to-3D (T23D) generation has emerged as a crucial visual generation task, aiming at synthesizing 3D content from textual descriptions. Studies of this task are currently shifting from per-scene T23D, which requires optimization of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xiao Cai , Sitong Su , Jingkuan Song , Pengpeng Zeng , Ji Zhang , Qinhong Du , Mengqi Li , Heng Tao Shen , Lianli Gao

Large language models generate fluent texts and can follow natural language instructions to solve a wide range of tasks without task-specific training. Nevertheless, it is notoriously difficult to control their generation to satisfy the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Wangchunshu Zhou , Yuchen Eleanor Jiang , Ethan Wilcox , Ryan Cotterell , Mrinmaya Sachan

Large monolithic generative models trained on massive amounts of data have become an increasingly dominant approach in AI research. In this paper, we argue that we should instead construct large generative systems by composing smaller…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yilun Du , Leslie Kaelbling

The ability to generalize to previously unseen tasks with little to no supervision is a key challenge in modern machine learning research. It is also a cornerstone of a future "General AI". Any artificially intelligent agent deployed in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Xihan Bian , Oscar Mendez , Simon Hadfield

Recent advancements in Text-to-Song generation have enabled realistic musical content production, yet existing evaluation benchmarks lack the professional granularity to capture multi-dimensional aesthetic nuances. In this paper, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Dapeng Wu , Shun Lei , Wei Tan , Guangzheng Li , Yunzhe Wang , Huaicheng Zhang , Lishi Zuo , Zhiyong Wu

Text-to-image generative models have achieved remarkable visual quality but still struggle with compositionality$-$accurately capturing object relationships, attribute bindings, and fine-grained details in prompts. A key limitation is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Arman Zarei , Jiacheng Pan , Matthew Gwilliam , Soheil Feizi , Zhenheng Yang

Modern neural machine translation (NMT) models have achieved competitive performance in standard benchmarks. However, they have recently been shown to suffer limitation in compositional generalization, failing to effectively learn the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yongjing Yin , Yafu Li , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou , Yue Zhang

While LLMs have emerged as performant architectures for reasoning tasks, their compositional generalization capabilities have been questioned. In this work, we introduce a Compositional Generalization Challenge for Graph-based Commonsense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xiyan Fu , Anette Frank

Natural language processing models often face challenges due to limited labeled data, especially in domain specific areas, e.g., clinical trials. To overcome this, text augmentation techniques are commonly used to increases sample size by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Charco Hui , Yalu Wen

In this paper, we propose the frameworks of generalized performance evaluation and generalized controller synthesis. To this end, we give a true concurrent process calculus as the model of systems, and present a lattice-valued performance…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zining Cao

Compositional generalization (the ability to respond correctly to novel combinations of familiar components) is thought to be a cornerstone of intelligent behavior. Compositionally structured (e.g. disentangled) representations support this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Samuel Lippl , Kim Stachenfeld

This paper presents an innovative approach to enhance control over audio generation by emphasizing the alignment between audio and text representations during model training. In the context of language model-based audio generation, the…