Disentanglement and Compositionality of Letter Identity and Letter Position in Variational Auto-Encoder Vision Models

Bruno Bianchi, Aakash Agrawal, Stanislas Dehaene +2

Human readers can accurately count how many letters are in a word (e.g., 7 in ``buffalo''), remove a letter from a given position (e.g., ``bufflo'') or add a new one. The human bra…