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In this paper, we study the graphic layout generation problem of producing high-quality visual-textual presentation designs for given images. We note that image compositions, which contain not only global semantics but also spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Min Zhou , Chenchen Xu , Ye Ma , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Weiwei Xu

Out-of-distribution generalization capabilities of sequence-to-sequence models can be studied from the lens of two crucial forms of generalization: length generalization -- the ability to generalize to longer sequences than ones seen during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Kartik Ahuja , Amin Mansouri

Shortcut learning occurs when a deep neural network overly relies on spurious correlations in the training dataset in order to solve downstream tasks. Prior works have shown how this impairs the compositional generalization capability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Piyapat Saranrittichai , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Claudia Blaiotta , Mauricio Munoz , Volker Fischer

We explore the question of whether the representations learned by classifiers can be used to enhance the quality of generative models. Our conjecture is that labels correspond to characteristics of natural data which are most salient to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-16 Alex Lamb , Vincent Dumoulin , Aaron Courville

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

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

This paper addresses the problem of self-supervised general-purpose audio representation learning. We explore the use of Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) for this task, which consists of splitting an input mel-spectrogram…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Alain Riou , Stefan Lattner , Gaëtan Hadjeres , Geoffroy Peeters

The fine-tuning of deep pre-trained models has revealed compositional properties, with multiple specialized modules that can be arbitrarily composed into a single, multi-task model. However, identifying the conditions that promote…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Angelo Porrello , Lorenzo Bonicelli , Pietro Buzzega , Monica Millunzi , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara

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 silico screening uses predictive models to select a batch of compounds with favorable properties from a library for experimental validation. Unlike conventional learning paradigms, success in this context is measured by the performance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-24 Andreas Loukas , Pan Kessel , Vladimir Gligorijevic , Richard Bonneau

Generalization in generative modeling is defined as the ability to learn an underlying distribution from a finite dataset and produce novel samples, with evaluation largely driven by held-out performance and perceived sample quality. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jerome Garnier-Brun , Luca Biggio , Davide Beltrame , Marc Mézard , Luca Saglietti

The perceptual loss has been widely used as an effective loss term in image synthesis tasks including image super-resolution, and style transfer. It was believed that the success lies in the high-level perceptual feature representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Yifan Liu , Hao Chen , Yu Chen , Wei Yin , Chunhua Shen

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…

Despite significant progress in diffusion-based image generation, subject-driven generation and instruction-based editing remain challenging. Existing methods typically treat them separately, struggling with limited high-quality data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xueyun Tian , Wei Li , Bingbing Xu , Yige Yuan , Yuanzhuo Wang , Huawei Shen

In designing generative models, it is commonly believed that in order to learn useful latent structure, we face a fundamental tension between expressivity and structure. In this paper we challenge this view by proposing a new approach to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-03 Alex Markham , Isaac Hirsch , Jeri A. Chang , Liam Solus , Bryon Aragam

Recent years have witnessed astonishing advances in the field of multimodal representation learning, with contrastive learning being the cornerstone for major breakthroughs. Latest works delivered further improvements by incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Chaerin Kong , Nojun Kwak

Studies of discrete languages emerging when neural agents communicate to solve a joint task often look for evidence of compositional structure. This stems for the expectation that such a structure would allow languages to be acquired faster…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Eugene Kharitonov , Marco Baroni

Fine-Grained Domain Generalization (FGDG) presents greater challenges than conventional domain generalization due to the subtle inter-class differences and relatively pronounced intra-class variations inherent in fine-grained recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zhen Wang , Jiaojiao Zhao , Qilong Wang , Yongfeng Dong , Wenlong Yu

Interventional causal models describe several joint distributions over some variables used to describe a system, one for each intervention setting. They provide a formal recipe for how to move between the different joint distributions and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-06 Eigil F. Rischel , Sebastian Weichwald

One of the hallmarks of human intelligence is the ability to compose learned knowledge into novel concepts which can be recognized without a single training example. In contrast, current state-of-the-art methods require hundreds of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Senthil Purushwalkam , Maximilian Nickel , Abhinav Gupta , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato