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Since their introduction, diffusion models have quickly become the prevailing approach to generative modeling in many domains. They can be interpreted as learning the gradients of a time-varying sequence of log-probability density…

Data collection has become an increasingly important problem in robotic manipulation, yet there still lacks much understanding of how to effectively collect data to facilitate broad generalization. Recent works on large-scale robotic data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jensen Gao , Annie Xie , Ted Xiao , Chelsea Finn , Dorsa Sadigh

Compositional generalization-a key open challenge in modern machine learning-requires models to predict unknown combinations of known concepts. However, assessing compositional generalization remains a fundamental challenge due to the lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Giacomo Camposampiero , Pietro Barbiero , Michael Hersche , Roger Wattenhofer , Abbas Rahimi

High training costs of generative models and the need to fine-tune them for specific tasks have created a strong interest in model reuse and composition. A key challenge in composing iterative generative processes, such as GFlowNets and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Timur Garipov , Sebastiaan De Peuter , Ge Yang , Vikas Garg , Samuel Kaski , Tommi Jaakkola

Diffusion models are capable of generating photo-realistic images that combine elements which likely do not appear together in the training set, demonstrating the ability to \textit{compositionally generalize}. Nonetheless, the precise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Qiyao Liang , Ziming Liu , Mitchell Ostrow , Ila Fiete

In this paper, we study an under-explored but important factor of diffusion generative models, i.e., the combinatorial complexity. Data samples are generally high-dimensional, and for various structured generation tasks, additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Rui Xu , Jiepeng Wang , Hao Pan , Yang Liu , Xin Tong , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

Leveraging the compositional nature of our world to expedite learning and facilitate generalization is a hallmark of human perception. In machine learning, on the other hand, achieving compositional generalization has proven to be an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Thaddäus Wiedemer , Prasanna Mayilvahanan , Matthias Bethge , Wieland Brendel

Imitation learning addresses the challenge of learning by observing an expert's demonstrations without access to reward signals from environments. Most existing imitation learning methods that do not require interacting with environments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shang-Fu Chen , Hsiang-Chun Wang , Ming-Hao Hsu , Chun-Mao Lai , Shao-Hua Sun

We obtain an analytic, interpretable and predictive theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models. Indeed, score-matching diffusion models can generate highly original images that lie far from their training data. However, optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Mason Kamb , Surya Ganguli

Deep clustering as an important branch of unsupervised representation learning focuses on embedding semantically similar samples into the identical feature space. This core demand inspires the exploration of contrastive learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haifeng Xia , Hai Huang , Zhengming Ding

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

Neural networks are very powerful learning systems, but they do not readily generalize from one task to the other. This is partly due to the fact that they do not learn in a compositional way, that is, by discovering skills that are shared…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Adam Liška , Germán Kruszewski , Marco Baroni

Compositional generalization allows efficient learning and human-like inductive biases. Since most research investigating compositional generalization in NLP is done on English, important questions remain underexplored. Do the necessary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Zi Wang , Daniel Hershcovich

Compositional generalization, the ability of an agent to generalize to unseen combinations of latent factors, is easy for humans but hard for deep neural networks. A line of research in cognitive science has hypothesized a process,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yi Ren , Samuel Lavoie , Mikhail Galkin , Danica J. Sutherland , Aaron Courville

The transfer of knowledge from one policy to another is an important tool in Deep Reinforcement Learning. This process, referred to as distillation, has been used to great success, for example, by enhancing the optimisation of agents,…

According to the principle of compositional generalization, the meaning of a complex expression can be understood as a function of the meaning of its parts and of how they are combined. This principle is crucial for human language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sungjun Han , Sebastian Padó

Diffusion models are powerful generative models that produce high-quality samples from complex data. While their infinite-data behavior is well understood, their generalization with finite data remains less clear. Classical learning theory…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-02 Claudia Merger , Sebastian Goldt

Generalization error defines the discriminability and the representation power of a deep model. In this work, we claim that feature space design using deep compositional function plays a significant role in generalization along with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Mrinal Haloi

While recent work has convincingly showed that sequence-to-sequence models struggle to generalize to new compositions (termed compositional generalization), little is known on what makes compositional generalization hard on a particular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ben Bogin , Shivanshu Gupta , Jonathan Berant

Compositionality -- the ability to combine familiar units like words into novel phrases and sentences -- has been the focus of intense interest in artificial intelligence in recent years. To test compositional generalization in semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Emily Goodwin , Siva Reddy , Timothy J. O'Donnell , Dzmitry Bahdanau