English
Related papers

Related papers: CtD: Composition through Decomposition in Emergent…

200 papers

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize unseen attribute-object compositions by learning prior knowledge of seen primitives, \textit{i.e.}, attributes and objects. Learning generalizable compositional representations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Haozhe Zhang , Chenchen Jing , Mingyu Liu , Qingsheng Wang , Hao Chen

Compositional generalization is a key facet of human cognition, but lacking in current AI tools such as vision-language models. Previous work examined whether a compositional tensor-based sentence semantics can overcome the challenge, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Hala Hawashin , Mina Abbaszadeh , Nicholas Joseph , Beth Pearson , Martha Lewis , Mehrnoosh sadrzadeh

Creating and editing high-quality 3D content remains a central challenge in computer graphics. We address this challenge by introducing CompoSE, a novel method for Compositional Synthesis and Editing of 3D shapes via part-aware control. Our…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Habib Slim , Shariq Farooq Bhat , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Yifan Wang , Mike Roberts

Previous work has modeled the compositionality of words by creating character-level models of meaning, reducing problems of sparsity for rare words. However, in many writing systems compositionality has an effect even on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Frederick Liu , Han Lu , Chieh Lo , Graham Neubig

Language acquisition is the process of learning words from the surrounding scene. We introduce a meta-learning framework that learns how to learn word representations from unconstrained scenes. We leverage the natural compositional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Dídac Surís , Dave Epstein , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang , Carl Vondrick

In this paper, we study the technical problem of developing conversational agents that can quickly adapt to unseen tasks, learn task-specific communication tactics, and help listeners finish complex, temporally extended tasks. We find that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Xiaoran Wu , Yipeng Kang

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

In tasks like semantic parsing, instruction following, and question answering, standard deep networks fail to generalize compositionally from small datasets. Many existing approaches overcome this limitation with model architectures that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ekin Akyürek , Jacob Andreas

Compositional Explanations is a method for identifying logical formulas of concepts that approximate the neurons' behavior. However, these explanations are linked to the small spectrum of neuron activations (i.e., the highest ones) used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Biagio La Rosa , Leilani H. Gilpin , Roberto Capobianco

The reasonable definition of semantic interpretability presents the core challenge in explainable AI. This paper proposes a method to modify a traditional convolutional neural network (CNN) into an interpretable compositional CNN, in order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Wen Shen , Zhihua Wei , Shikun Huang , Binbin Zhang , Jiaqi Fan , Ping Zhao , Quanshi Zhang

Generative models have demonstrated remarkable abilities in generating high-fidelity visual content. In this work, we explore how generative models can further be used not only to synthesize visual content but also to understand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yanbo Wang , Justin Dauwels , Yilun Du

Despite a multitude of empirical studies, little consensus exists on whether neural networks are able to generalise compositionally, a controversy that, in part, stems from a lack of agreement about what it means for a neural model to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Dieuwke Hupkes , Verna Dankers , Mathijs Mul , Elia Bruni

Learning based representation has become the key to the success of many computer vision systems. While many 3D representations have been proposed, it is still an unaddressed problem how to represent a dynamically changing 3D object. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Boyan Jiang , Yinda Zhang , Xingkui Wei , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Having access to multi-modal cues (e.g. vision and audio) empowers some cognitive tasks to be done faster compared to learning from a single modality. In this work, we propose to transfer knowledge across heterogeneous modalities, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Yanbei Chen , Yongqin Xian , A. Sophia Koepke , Ying Shan , Zeynep Akata

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

Large-scale Vision-Language models have achieved remarkable results in various domains, such as image captioning and conditioned image generation. Nevertheless, these models still encounter difficulties in achieving human-like compositional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jiahao Liu , Senhao Cao

Compositing is one of the most common operations in photo editing. To generate realistic composites, the appearances of foreground and background need to be adjusted to make them compatible. Previous approaches to harmonize composites have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Xiaohui Shen , Zhe Lin , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Xin Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Although psycholinguists and psychologists have long studied the tendency of linguistic strings to evoke mental images in hearers or readers, most computational studies have applied this concept of imageability only to isolated words. Using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Si Wu , David A. Smith

Humans have the innate capability to answer diverse questions, which is rooted in the natural ability to correlate different concepts based on their semantic relationships and decompose difficult problems into sub-tasks. On the contrary,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Shi Chen , Qi Zhao

It has been hypothesized that human-level visual perception requires a generative approach in which internal representations result from inverting a decoder. Yet today's most successful vision models are non-generative, relying on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jack Brady , Bernhard Schölkopf , Thomas Kipf , Simon Buchholz , Wieland Brendel