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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

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly advanced, their ability to exhibit compositional generalization -- the capacity to combine learned skills in novel ways not encountered during training -- has garnered significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Haoyu Zhao , Simran Kaur , Dingli Yu , Anirudh Goyal , Sanjeev Arora

Humans have the ability to learn novel compositional concepts by recalling and generalizing primitive concepts acquired from past experiences. Inspired by this observation, in this paper, we propose MetaReVision, a retrieval-enhanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Guangyue Xu , Parisa Kordjamshidi , Joyce Chai

Human intelligence gradually accepts new information and accumulates knowledge throughout the lifespan. However, deep learning models suffer from a catastrophic forgetting phenomenon, where they forget previous knowledge when acquiring new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jisu Han , Jaemin Na , Wonjun Hwang

While interest in models that generalize at test time to new compositions has risen in recent years, benchmarks in the visually-grounded domain have thus far been restricted to synthetic images. In this work, we propose COVR, a new test-bed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Ben Bogin , Shivanshu Gupta , Matt Gardner , Jonathan Berant

Collecting robotic manipulation data is expensive, making it impractical to acquire demonstrations for the combinatorially large space of tasks that arise in multi-object, multi-robot, and multi-environment settings. While recent generative…

When writing programs, people have the ability to tackle a new complex task by decomposing it into smaller and more familiar subtasks. While it is difficult to measure whether neural program synthesis methods have similar capabilities, what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Kensen Shi , Joey Hong , Manzil Zaheer , Pengcheng Yin , Charles Sutton

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

Single-image 3D shape reconstruction is an important and long-standing problem in computer vision. A plethora of existing works is constantly pushing the state-of-the-art performance in the deep learning era. However, there remains a much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Songfang Han , Jiayuan Gu , Kaichun Mo , Li Yi , Siyu Hu , Xuejin Chen , Hao Su

Class-incremental learning (CIL) has been widely studied under the setting of starting from a small number of classes (base classes). Instead, we explore an understudied real-world setting of CIL that starts with a strong model pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Tz-Ying Wu , Gurumurthy Swaminathan , Zhizhong Li , Avinash Ravichandran , Nuno Vasconcelos , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

To solve a new task from minimal experience, it is essential to effectively reuse knowledge from previous tasks, a problem known as meta-learning. Compositional solutions, where common elements of computation are flexibly recombined into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jacob J. W. Bakermans , Pablo Tano , Reidar Riveland , Charles Findling , Alexandre Pouget

A wide variety of methods have been developed to enable lifelong learning in conventional deep neural networks. However, to succeed, these methods require a `batch' of samples to be available and visited multiple times during training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Soumya Banerjee , Vinay Kumar Verma , Toufiq Parag , Maneesh Singh , Vinay P. Namboodiri

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 is a crucial step towards developing data-efficient intelligent machines that generalize in human-like ways. In this work, we tackle a challenging form of distribution shift, termed compositional shift, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Divyat Mahajan , Mohammad Pezeshki , Charles Arnal , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Kartik Ahuja , Pascal Vincent

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

Algorithm selection is commonly used to predict the best solver from a portfolio per per-instance. In many real scenarios, instances arrive in a stream: new instances become available over time, while the number of class labels can also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mate Botond Nemeth , Emma Hart , Kevin Sim , Quentin Renau

Recent years have witnessed a significant increase in the performance of Vision and Language tasks. Foundational Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have been leveraged in multiple settings and demonstrated remarkable performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Santiago Castro , Amir Ziai , Avneesh Saluja , Zhuoning Yuan , Rada Mihalcea

Humans are capable of abstracting various tasks as different combinations of multiple attributes. This perspective of compositionality is vital for human rapid learning and adaption since previous experiences from related tasks can be…

One of the key limitations of modern deep learning approaches lies in the amount of data required to train them. Humans, by contrast, can learn to recognize novel categories from just a few examples. Instrumental to this rapid learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Pavel Tokmakov , Yu-Xiong Wang , Martial Hebert

Compositional generalization is a fundamental trait in humans, allowing us to effortlessly combine known phrases to form novel sentences. Recent works have claimed that standard seq-to-seq models severely lack the ability to compositionally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Arkil Patel , Satwik Bhattamishra , Phil Blunsom , Navin Goyal