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The visual world is fundamentally compositional. Visual scenes are defined by the composition of objects and their relations. Hence, it is essential for computer vision systems to reflect and exploit this compositionality to achieve robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shuhao Fu , Andrew Jun Lee , Anna Wang , Ida Momennejad , Trevor Bihl , Hongjing Lu , Taylor W. Webb

Compositional generalization--understanding unseen combinations of seen primitives--is an essential reasoning capability in human intelligence. The AI community mainly studies this capability by fine-tuning neural networks on lots of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Shengnan An , Zeqi Lin , Qiang Fu , Bei Chen , Nanning Zheng , Jian-Guang Lou , Dongmei Zhang

Although neural sequence-to-sequence models have been successfully applied to semantic parsing, they fail at compositional generalization, i.e., they are unable to systematically generalize to unseen compositions of seen components.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Hao Zheng , Mirella Lapata

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

A generally intelligent learner should generalize to more complex tasks than it has previously encountered, but the two common paradigms in machine learning -- either training a separate learner per task or training a single learner for all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Michael B. Chang , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine , Thomas L. Griffiths

The challenge in learning abstract concepts from images in an unsupervised fashion lies in the required integration of visual perception and generalizable relational reasoning. Moreover, the unsupervised nature of this task makes it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Antonia Wüst , Wolfgang Stammer , Quentin Delfosse , Devendra Singh Dhami , Kristian Kersting

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

We investigate compositional structures in data embeddings from pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs). Traditionally, compositionality has been associated with algebraic operations on embeddings of words from a pre-existing vocabulary.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Matthew Trager , Pramuditha Perera , Luca Zancato , Alessandro Achille , Parminder Bhatia , Stefano Soatto

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

Categorical compositional distributional semantics is an approach to modelling language that combines the success of vector-based models of meaning with the compositional power of formal semantics. However, this approach was developed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Martha Lewis

Generalization of models to out-of-distribution (OOD) data has captured tremendous attention recently. Specifically, compositional generalization, i.e., whether a model generalizes to new structures built of components observed during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Inbar Oren , Jonathan Herzig , Nitish Gupta , Matt Gardner , Jonathan Berant

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

We present our work in progress exploring the possibilities of a shared embedding space between textual and visual modality. Leveraging the textual nature of object detection labels and the hypothetical expressiveness of extracted visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Dušan Variš , Katsuhito Sudoh , Satoshi Nakamura

Compositional generalization, the ability to generate novel combinations of known concepts, is a key ingredient for visual generative models. Yet, not all mechanisms that enable or inhibit it are fully understood. In this work, we conduct a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Karim Farid , Rajat Sahay , Yumna Ali Alnaggar , Simon Schrodi , Volker Fischer , Cordelia Schmid , Thomas Brox

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

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

Dual-encoder Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP are often characterized as bag-of-words systems due to their poor performance on compositional benchmarks. We argue that this limitation may stem less from deficient representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Imanol Miranda , Ander Salaberria , Eneko Agirre , Gorka Azkune

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has demonstrated great zero-shot performance for matching images and text. However, it is still challenging to adapt vision-lanaguage pretrained models like CLIP to compositional image and text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kenan Jiang , Xuehai He , Ruize Xu , Xin Eric Wang

Compositional generalization is a critical ability in learning and decision-making. We focus on the setting of reinforcement learning in object-oriented environments to study compositional generalization in world modeling. We (1) formalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Linfeng Zhao , Lingzhi Kong , Robin Walters , Lawson L. S. Wong

Compositional generalization refers to the ability to generalize to novel combinations of previously observed words and syntactic structures. Since it is regarded as a desired property of neural models, recent work has assessed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Ryoma Kumon , Daiki Matsuoka , Hitomi Yanaka