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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performances on a wide range of natural language tasks. Yet, LLMs' successes have been largely restricted to tasks concerning words, sentences, or documents, and it remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Andrew Shin , Kunitake Kaneko

We assess how the code reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) generalize to different kinds of programs. We present techniques for obtaining in- and out-of-distribution programs with different characteristics: code sampled from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Rem Yang , Julian Dai , Nikos Vasilakis , Martin Rinard

Large Language Models (LLMs), originally developed for natural language processing (NLP), have demonstrated the potential to generalize across modalities and domains. With their in-context learning (ICL) capabilities, LLMs can perform…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Nikolaos Pavlidis , Vasilis Perifanis , Symeon Symeonidis , Pavlos S. Efraimidis

Compositional generalization is a basic mechanism in human language learning, but current neural networks lack such ability. In this paper, we conduct fundamental research for encoding compositionality in neural networks. Conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yuanpeng Li , Liang Zhao , Jianyu Wang , Joel Hestness

Compositionality is considered central to language abilities. As performant language systems, how do large language models (LLMs) do on compositional tasks? We evaluate adjective-noun compositionality in LLMs using two complementary setups:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ruchira Dhar , Qiwei Peng , Anders Søgaard

Compositionality is thought to be a key component of language, and various compositional benchmarks have been developed to empirically probe the compositional generalization of existing sequence processing models. These benchmarks often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Parikshit Ram , Tim Klinger , Alexander G. Gray

Medical imaging provides essential visual insights for diagnosis, and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly utilized for its analysis due to their strong generalization capabilities; however, the underlying factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zhenyang Cai , Junying Chen , Rongsheng Wang , Weihong Wang , Yonglin Deng , Dingjie Song , Yize Chen , Zixu Zhang , Benyou Wang

Data-to-text generation involves transforming structured data, often represented as predicate-argument tuples, into coherent textual descriptions. Despite recent advances, systems still struggle when confronted with unseen combinations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Xinnuo Xu , Ivan Titov , Mirella Lapata

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

To process novel sentences, language models (LMs) must generalize compositionally -- combine familiar elements in new ways. What aspects of a model's structure promote compositional generalization? Focusing on transformers, we test the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Jackson Petty , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Ishita Dasgupta , Fei Sha , Dan Garrette , Tal Linzen

Recent breakthroughs in large language modeling have facilitated rigorous exploration of their application in diverse tasks related to tabular data modeling, such as prediction, tabular data synthesis, question answering, and table…

Compositional understanding is crucial for human intelligence, yet it remains unclear whether contemporary vision models exhibit it. The dominant machine learning paradigm is built on the premise that scaling data and model sizes will…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Arnas Uselis , Andrea Dittadi , Seong Joon Oh

Compositional generalization is the ability of generalizing novel compositions from seen primitives, and has received much attention in vision-and-language (V\&L) recently. Due to the multi-modal nature of V\&L tasks, the primitives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chuanhao Li , Wenbo Ye , Zhen Li , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Compositional generalization is a basic mechanism in human language learning, which current neural networks struggle with. A recently proposed Disentangled sequence-to-sequence model (Dangle) shows promising generalization capability by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Hao Zheng , Mirella Lapata

Natural language is compositional; the meaning of a sentence is a function of the meaning of its parts. This property allows humans to create and interpret novel sentences, generalizing robustly outside their prior experience. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Henry Conklin , Bailin Wang , Kenny Smith , Ivan Titov

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

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable task generalization, solving tasks they were never explicitly trained on with only a few demonstrations. This raises a fundamental question: When can learning from a small set of tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Amirhesam Abedsoltan , Huaqing Zhang , Kaiyue Wen , Hongzhou Lin , Jingzhao Zhang , Mikhail Belkin

Image captioning models are usually evaluated on their ability to describe a held-out set of images, not on their ability to generalize to unseen concepts. We study the problem of compositional generalization, which measures how well a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mitja Nikolaus , Mostafa Abdou , Matthew Lamm , Rahul Aralikatte , Desmond Elliott

Compositional generalization, the ability to recognize familiar parts in novel contexts, is a defining property of intelligent systems. Although modern models are trained on massive datasets, they still cover only a tiny fraction of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Arnas Uselis , Andrea Dittadi , Seong Joon Oh

Compositional generalization -- the ability to understand and generate novel combinations of learned concepts -- enables models to extend their capabilities beyond limited experiences. While effective, the data structures and principles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Lingjing Kong , Shaoan Xie , Yang Jiao , Yetian Chen , Yanhui Guo , Simone Shao , Yan Gao , Guangyi Chen , Kun Zhang