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Human brain structural networks contain sets of centrally embedded hub regions that enable efficient information communication. However, it remains largely unknown about categories of structural brain hubs and their microstructural,…

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Systematic compositionality is the ability to recombine meaningful units with regular and predictable outcomes, and it's seen as key to humans' capacity for generalization in language. Recent work has studied systematic compositionality in…

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A formal description of the compositionality of neural networks is associated directly with the formal grammar-structure of the objects it seeks to represent. This formal grammar-structure specifies the kind of components that make up an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Sai Raam Venkatraman , Ankit Anand , S. Balasubramanian , R. Raghunatha Sarma

Question answering models struggle to generalize to novel compositions of training patterns, such to longer sequences or more complex test structures. Current end-to-end models learn a flat input embedding which can lose input syntax…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Yu Gai , Paras Jain , Wendi Zhang , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Dawn Song , Ion Stoica

Current text-to-3D methods excel at generating single objects but falter on compositional prompts. We argue this failure is fundamental to their optimization schedules, as simultaneous or iterative heuristics predictably collapse under a…

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Compositional generalization is a crucial property in artificial intelligence, enabling models to handle novel combinations of known components. While most deep learning models lack this capability, certain models succeed in specific tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yuanpeng Li

Structural generalization in semantic parsing requires systems to apply learned compositional rules to novel structural combinations. Existing approaches either rely on hand-written algebraic rules (AM-Parser) or fail to generalize…

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The layered structure of deep neural networks hinders the use of numerous analysis tools and thus the development of its interpretability. Inspired by the success of functional brain networks, we propose a novel framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Ben Zhang , Zhetong Dong , Junsong Zhang , Hongwei Lin

Brain function emerges from coordinated activity across anatomically connected regions, where structural connectivity (SC) -- the network of white matter pathways - provides the physical substrate for functional connectivity (FC) -- the…

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The main objective of the present paper is to present a version of the Tannaka-Krein type reconstruction Theorems: If $F:B\to C$ is an exact faithful monoidal functor of tensor categories, one would like to realize $B$ as category of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Simon Lentner , Martín Mombelli

Network embedding has proved extremely useful in a variety of network analysis tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and network visualization. Almost all the existing network embedding methods learn to map the node IDs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Tianshu Lyu , Fei Sun , Peng Jiang , Wenwu Ou , Yan Zhang

Seq2seq models have been shown to struggle with compositional generalisation, i.e. generalising to new and potentially more complex structures than seen during training. Taking inspiration from grammar-based models that excel at…

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The compositional structure of language enables humans to decompose complex phrases and map them to novel visual concepts, showcasing flexible intelligence. While several algorithms exhibit compositionality, they fail to elucidate how…

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Attention-free language models that combine gating and convolutions are growing in popularity due to their efficiency and increasingly competitive performance. To better understand these architectures, we pretrain a suite of 17 attention…

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We present a field-theoretic construction of a class of artificial neural networks from solitonic degrees of freedom in nonlinear scalar field theory. The purpose is not to rename a standard neural layer in the language of solitons, but to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 R. A. C. Correa

While sequence-to-sequence models have shown remarkable generalization power across several natural language tasks, their construct of solutions are argued to be less compositional than human-like generalization. In this paper, we present…

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Learning robust and generalisable abstractions from high-dimensional input data is a central challenge in machine learning and its applications to high-energy physics (HEP). Solutions of lower functional complexity are known to produce…

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We construct a strict pivotal monoidal category $\mathcal{D}_{\mathrm{DNA}}$ whose objects are DNA sequences (words over $\{A,C,G,T\}$) and whose morphisms are isotopy classes of typed noncrossing planar matchings, composed of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Andrés Ortiz-Muñoz

We consider learning and compositionality as the key mechanisms towards simulating human-like intelligence. While each mechanism is successfully achieved by neural networks and symbolic AIs, respectively, it is the combination of the two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Ximing Qiao , Hai Li