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S. P. Arun
A fundamental question for any visual system is whether its image representation can be understood in terms of its components. Decomposing any image into components is challenging because there are many possible decompositions with no common dictionary, and enumerating the components leads to a combinatorial explosion.…
Nathan Klinedinst
Human languages use complex, structured signals whose meanings are compositional. Recent empirical research has claimed to demonstrate compositionality in bird and primate communication (Berthet et al. [2]; Engesser et al. [4]; Girard-Buttoz et al. [6]; Leroux et al. [8]; Suzuki et al. [21]). While the compositionality…
Eric Elmoznino, Thomas Jiralerspong, Yoshua Bengio, Guillaume Lajoie
Compositionality is believed to be fundamental to intelligence. In humans, it underlies the structure of thought, language, and higher-level reasoning. In AI, compositional representations can enable a powerful form of out-of-distribution generalization, in which a model systematically adapts to novel combinations of…
Caterina Puca, Amar Hadzihasanovic, Fabrizio Genovese, Bob Coecke
Compositionality is at the heart of computer science and several other areas of applied category theory such as computational linguistics, categorical quantum mechanics, interpretable AI, dynamical systems, compositional game theory, and Petri nets. However, the meaning of the term seems to vary across the many…
Baihan Lin, Djallel Bouneffouf, Irina Rish
The field of compositional generalization is currently experiencing a renaissance in AI, as novel problem settings and algorithms motivated by various practical applications are being introduced, building on top of the classical compositional generalization problem. This article aims to provide a comprehensive review…
Tiffany Duneau
The DisCoCirc framework for natural language processing allows the construction of compositional models of text, by combining units for individual words together according to the grammatical structure of the text. The compositional nature of a model can give rise to two things: compositional generalisation - the…
Guangyao Qi, Olga Dal Monte, Siqi Fan, Steve W. C. Chang
Social gaze underpins primate communication, yet the neural principles enabling its flexibility remain unknown. Each social gaze can be deconstructed into three primitives: gaze content, social state, and gaze duration. To reduce dimensionality and facilitate generalization, the brain needs to represent these…
Guangyao Qi, Olga Dal Monte, Siqi Fan, Steve W. C. Chang
Each social gaze can be deconstructed into primitive components, including gaze content, social state, and gaze duration. To reduce dimensionality and facilitate generalization, the brain needs to represent primitive components in an abstract format. We examined the compositional aspects of social gaze primitives in…
Kiran Pala, Vasudevan Nedumpozhimana, S. Shalu
The primary aim of this research was to investigate the intricate relationship between the structural elements of experiences and their essential role in meaning formation. The analysis focused on understanding the nature of mental representations and the subjective, phenomenal qualities that emerge within experiences.…
Sergei Monakhov
Complex verbs with the same preverb/prefix/particle that is both linguistically productive and analyzable can be compositional as well as non-compositional in meaning. For example, the English on has compositional spatial uses (put a hat on) but also a non-spatial “continuative” use, where its semantic contribution is…
Aldo Battista, Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, Xiao-Jing Wang
Value-guided decisions are a cornerstone of cognition, yet the underlying circuit-level mechanisms remain elusive. We used reinforcement learning to train recurrent neural network models endowed with Dale’s law on a battery of economic choice tasks, which revealed a two-stage computational framework. First, value…
Samuel P. Forry, Stephanie L. Servetas, Jason G. Kralj, Monique E. Hunter + 2 more
The increasing use of metagenomic sequencing (MGS) for microbiome analysis has significantly advanced our understanding of microbial communities and their roles in various biological processes, including human health, environmental cycling, and disease. However, the inherent compositionality of MGS data, where the…
Maria M. Piñango
I explore the hypothesis that the experience of meaning discreteness when we think about the “meaning” of a word is a “communicative” illusion. The illusion is created by processing-contextual constraints that impose disambiguation on the semantic input making salient a specific interpretation within a conceptual space…
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Curried functions provide a systematic way of transforming multi-argument functions into nested singleargument functions. This transformation allows partial application and supports many central principles of functional programming. Their extension, called curried 𝑘-ary functions, naturally generalizes the familiar…
Hyunsoo Park, Anthony Onwuli, Keith T. Butler, Aron Walsh
The combination of elements from the Periodic Table defines a vast chemical space. Only a small fraction of these combinations yield materials that occur naturally or are accessible synthetically. Here, we enumerate binary, ternary, and quaternary element combinations to produce an extensive library of over 10^10…
Alexander Mielke, Gal Badihi, Ed Donnellan, Kirsty E. Graham + 12 more
Recent research has produced evidence for basic combinatorial abilities in the vocal systems of different animal species. Here, we investigate the structure of gesture sequences in Eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) to detect whether gestural communication shows non-random combinations and how…
Richard Apodaca
Despite its widespread use, Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System (SMILES) remains underspecified. The lack of a detailed specification encourages improvisation by software developers, complicates data standardization efforts, and undermines extension development. Balsa, a reformulation of SMILES, addresses…