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A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to construct self-contained chunks of knowledge and reuse them in novel combinations for solving different problems. Learning such compositional structures has been a challenge for artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Jorge A. Mendez

Compositional generalization is a key ability of humans that enables us to learn new concepts from only a handful examples. Neural machine learning models, including the now ubiquitous Transformers, struggle to generalize in this way, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Tim Klinger , Luke Liu , Soham Dan , Maxwell Crouse , Parikshit Ram , Alexander Gray

In this study, we propose a structured methodology that utilizes large language models (LLMs) in a cost-efficient and parsimonious manner, integrating the strengths of scholars and machines while offsetting their respective weaknesses. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Navid Asgari , Benjamin M. Cole

Compositional generalization, representing the model's ability to generate text with new attribute combinations obtained by recombining single attributes from the training data, is a crucial property for multi-aspect controllable text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Tianqi Zhong , Zhaoyi Li , Quan Wang , Linqi Song , Ying Wei , Defu Lian , Zhendong Mao

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

Large language models (LLMs) are very performant connectionist systems, but do they exhibit more compositionality? More importantly, is that part of why they perform so well? We present empirical analyses across four LLM families (12…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Ruchira Dhar , Anders Søgaard

High-dimensional compositional data are commonplace in the modern omics sciences amongst others. Analysis of compositional data requires a proper choice of orthonormal coordinate representation as their relative nature is not compatible…

Despite significant advancements in multi-label text classification, the ability of existing models to generalize to novel and seldom-encountered complex concepts, which are compositions of elementary ones, remains underexplored. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Yuyang Chai , Zhuang Li , Jiahui Liu , Lei Chen , Fei Li , Donghong Ji , Chong Teng

Continual learning aims at incrementally acquiring new knowledge while not forgetting existing knowledge. To overcome catastrophic forgetting, methods are either rehearsal-based, i.e., store data examples from previous tasks for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Mingyang Wang , Heike Adel , Lukas Lange , Jannik Strötgen , Hinrich Schütze

Real-world applications of machine learning models often confront data distribution shifts, wherein discrepancies exist between the training and test data distributions. In the common multi-domain multi-class setup, as the number of classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Haoxiang Wang , Haozhe Si , Huajie Shao , Han Zhao

This paper addresses the Longest Filled Common Subsequence (LFCS) problem, a challenging NP-hard problem with applications in bioinformatics, including gene mutation prediction and genomic data reconstruction. Existing approaches, including…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Marko Djukanovic , Christian Blum , Aleksandar Kartelj , Ana Nikolikj , Guenther Raidl

Humans can reason compositionally when presented with new tasks. Previous research shows that appropriate prompting techniques enable large language models (LLMs) to solve artificial compositional generalization tasks such as SCAN. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Andrew Drozdov , Nathanael Schärli , Ekin Akyürek , Nathan Scales , Xinying Song , Xinyun Chen , Olivier Bousquet , Denny Zhou

Active automata learning infers automaton models of systems from behavioral observations, a technique successfully applied to a wide range of domains. Compositional approaches have recently emerged to address scalability to concurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Leo Henry , Thomas Neele , Mohammad Reza Mousavi , Matteo Sammartino

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

The emergence of in-context learning (ICL) enables large pre-trained language models (PLMs) to make predictions for unseen inputs without updating parameters. Despite its potential, ICL's effectiveness heavily relies on the quality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiaoling Zhou , Wei Ye , Yidong Wang , Chaoya Jiang , Zhemg Lee , Rui Xie , Shikun Zhang

Compositional generalization refers to correctly interpret novel combinations of known primitives, which remains a major challenge. Existing approaches often rely on supervised fine-tuning, which encourages models to imitate target outputs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Xiyan Fu , Wei Liu

Compositional generalization is the capability of a model to understand novel compositions composed of seen concepts. There are multiple levels of novel compositions including phrase-phrase level, phrase-word level, and word-word level.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Chuanhao Li , Zhen Li , Chenchen Jing , Xiaomeng Fan , Wenbo Ye , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Recurrent neural networks have recently been used for learning to describe images using natural language. However, it has been observed that these models generalize poorly to scenes that were not observed during training, possibly depending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Yuval Atzmon , Jonathan Berant , Vahid Kezami , Amir Globerson , Gal Chechik

Continual learning requires incremental compatibility with a sequence of tasks. However, the design of model architecture remains an open question: In general, learning all tasks with a shared set of parameters suffers from severe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Liyuan Wang , Xingxing Zhang , Qian Li , Jun Zhu , Yi Zhong

Human cognition exhibits systematic compositionality, the algebraic ability to generate infinite novel combinations from finite learned components, which is the key to understanding and reasoning about complex logic. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Jun Zhao , Jingqi Tong , Yurong Mou , Ming Zhang , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang