3 papers
cs.LG2025
Bound by semanticity: universal laws governing the generalization-identification tradeoff
Marco Nurisso, Jesseba Fernando, Raj Deshpande +9
Intelligent systems must deploy internal representations that are simultaneously structured -- to support broad generalization -- and selective -- to preserve input identity. We ex…
cs.AI2025
Understanding the Limits of Vision Language Models Through the Lens of the Binding Problem
Declan Campbell, Sunayana Rane, Tyler Giallanza +8
Recent work has documented striking heterogeneity in the performance of state-of-the-art vision language models (VLMs), including both multimodal language models and text-to-image…
cs.AI2024
The Relational Bottleneck as an Inductive Bias for Efficient Abstraction
Taylor W. Webb, Steven M. Frankland, Awni Altabaa +9
A central challenge for cognitive science is to explain how abstract concepts are acquired from limited experience. This has often been framed in terms of a dichotomy between conne…