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OpenAI's o3-preview reasoning model exceeded human accuracy on the ARC-AGI-1 benchmark, but does that mean state-of-the-art models recognize and reason with the abstractions the benchmark was designed to test? Here we investigate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Claas Beger , Ryan Yi , Shuhao Fu , Kaleda Denton , Arseny Moskvichev , Sarah W. Tsai , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Melanie Mitchell

The abilities to form and abstract concepts is key to human intelligence, but such abilities remain lacking in state-of-the-art AI systems. There has been substantial research on conceptual abstraction in AI, particularly using idealized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Arseny Moskvichev , Victor Vikram Odouard , Melanie Mitchell

We study structured abstraction-based reasoning for the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) and compare its generalization to test-time approaches. Purely neural architectures lack reliable combinatorial generalization, while strictly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Anugyan Das , Omkar Ghugarkar , Vishvesh Bhat , Asad Aali

Visual reasoning models (VRMs) have recently shown strong cross-modal reasoning capabilities by integrating visual perception with language reasoning. However, they often suffer from overthinking, producing unnecessarily long reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yixu Huang , Tinghui Zhu , Muhao Chen

Core knowledge about physical objects -- e.g., their permanency, spatial transformations, and interactions -- is one of the most fundamental building blocks of biological intelligence across humans and non-human animals. While AI techniques…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-02 James Ainooson , Deepayan Sanyal , Joel P. Michelson , Yuan Yang , Maithilee Kunda

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC-AGI) has become a key benchmark for fluid intelligence in AI. This survey presents the first cross-generation analysis of 82 approaches across three benchmark versions and the ARC Prize 2024-2025…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sahar Vahdati , Andrei Aioanei , Haridhra Suresh , Jens Lehmann

In this project, we test the effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) dataset. This dataset serves as a representative benchmark for testing abstract reasoning abilities, requiring a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Liane Galanti , Ethan Baron

ARC-AGI and ARC-AGI-2 measure generalization-through-composition on small color-quantized grids, and their prize competitions make progress on these harder held-out tasks a meaningful proxy for systematic generalization. Recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Bo Wen , Chen Wang , Erhan Bilal

We introduce the Abductive Rule Learner with Context-awareness (ARLC), a model that solves abstract reasoning tasks based on Learn-VRF. ARLC features a novel and more broadly applicable training objective for abductive reasoning, resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Giacomo Camposampiero , Michael Hersche , Aleksandar Terzić , Roger Wattenhofer , Abu Sebastian , Abbas Rahimi

Humans can observe a single, imperfect demonstration and immediately generalize to very different problem settings. Robots, in contrast, often require hundreds of examples and still struggle to generalize beyond the training conditions. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Ben Zandonati , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Analogical reasoning is a fundamental capacity of human cognition that allows us to reason abstractly about novel situations by relating them to past experiences. While it is thought to be essential for robust reasoning in AI systems,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xiaoyang Hu , Shane Storks , Richard L. Lewis , Joyce Chai

'Actions' play a vital role in how humans interact with the world and enable them to achieve desired goals. As a result, most common sense (CS) knowledge for humans revolves around actions. While 'Reasoning about Actions & Change' (RAC) has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Maitreya Patel , Subhasish Das , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Reasoning is a hallmark of human intelligence, enabling adaptive decision-making in complex and unfamiliar scenarios. In contrast, machine intelligence remains bound to training data, lacking the ability to dynamically refine solutions at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Shaheer U. Saeed , Yipei Wang , Veeru Kasivisvanathan , Brian R. Davidson , Matthew J. Clarkson , Yipeng Hu , Daniel C. Alexander

The existing methods for evaluating the inference abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have been predominantly results-centric, making it challenging to assess the inference process comprehensively. We introduce a novel approach using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Seungpil Lee , Woochang Sim , Donghyeon Shin , Wongyu Seo , Jiwon Park , Seokki Lee , Sanha Hwang , Sejin Kim , Sundong Kim

Inductive reasoning is a core problem-solving capacity: humans can identify underlying principles from a few examples, which robustly generalize to novel scenarios. Recent work evaluates large language models (LLMs) on inductive reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Ruocheng Wang , Eric Zelikman , Gabriel Poesia , Yewen Pu , Nick Haber , Noah D. Goodman

Large language models are increasingly deployed as research agents for deep search and long-horizon information seeking, yet their performance often degrades as interaction histories grow. This degradation, known as context rot, reflects a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yilun Yao , Shan Huang , Elsie Dai , Zhewen Tan , Zhenyu Duan , Shousheng Jia , Yanbing Jiang , Tong Yang

To make deliberate progress towards more intelligent and more human-like artificial systems, we need to be following an appropriate feedback signal: we need to be able to define and evaluate intelligence in a way that enables comparisons…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-26 François Chollet

Vision-Language-Action models have emerged as essential generalist robot policies for diverse manipulation tasks, conventionally relying on directly translating multimodal inputs into actions via Vision-Language Model embeddings. Recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Linqing Zhong , Yi Liu , Yifei Wei , Ziyu Xiong , Maoqing Yao , Si Liu , Guanghui Ren

Analytical reasoning is an essential and challenging task that requires a system to analyze a scenario involving a set of particular circumstances and perform reasoning over it to make conclusions. In this paper, we study the challenge of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Wanjun Zhong , Siyuan Wang , Duyu Tang , Zenan Xu , Daya Guo , Jiahai Wang , Jian Yin , Ming Zhou , Nan Duan

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) tests AI systems' ability to perform human-like inductive reasoning from a few demonstration pairs. Existing Gymnasium-based RL environments severely limit experimental scale due to computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Aadam , Monu Verma , Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb