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most citedThe Relational Bottleneck as an Inductive Bias for Efficient Abstraction

5 citations · 8 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CV2026

Binding Visual Features Point by Point

Udith Haputhanthri, Declan Campbell, Rim Assouel +2

Despite success on standard benchmarks, vision language models display persistent failures on tasks involving processing of multi-object scenes, including many tasks that are relat…

cs.CV2026★ 1 cited

The Geometry of Representational Failures in Vision Language Models

Daniele Savietto, Declan Campbell, André Panisson +4

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit puzzling failures in multi-object visual tasks, such as hallucinating non-existent elements or failing to identify the most similar objects am…

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.CL2025★ 1 cited

Emergent Symbolic Mechanisms Support Abstract Reasoning in Large Language Models

Yukang Yang, Declan Campbell, Kaixuan Huang +3

Many recent studies have found evidence for emergent reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs), but debate persists concerning the robustness of these capabilities, an…

cs.AI2024

A Relational Inductive Bias for Dimensional Abstraction in Neural Networks

Declan Campbell, Jonathan D. Cohen

The human cognitive system exhibits remarkable flexibility and generalization capabilities, partly due to its ability to form low-dimensional, compositional representations of the…

q-bio.NC2023★ 1 cited

Relational Constraints On Neural Networks Reproduce Human Biases towards Abstract Geometric Regularity

Declan Campbell, Sreejan Kumar, Tyler Giallanza +2

Uniquely among primates, humans possess a remarkable capacity to recognize and manipulate abstract structure in the service of task goals across a broad range of behaviors. One ill…

cs.AI2023★ 5 cited

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…