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Main Authors: Tartaglini, Alexa R., Feucht, Sheridan, Lepori, Michael A., Vong, Wai Keen, Lovering, Charles, Lake, Brenden M., Pavlick, Ellie
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09612
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author Tartaglini, Alexa R.
Feucht, Sheridan
Lepori, Michael A.
Vong, Wai Keen
Lovering, Charles
Lake, Brenden M.
Pavlick, Ellie
author_facet Tartaglini, Alexa R.
Feucht, Sheridan
Lepori, Michael A.
Vong, Wai Keen
Lovering, Charles
Lake, Brenden M.
Pavlick, Ellie
contents Although deep neural networks can achieve human-level performance on many object recognition benchmarks, prior work suggests that these same models fail to learn simple abstract relations, such as determining whether two objects are the same or different. Much of this prior work focuses on training convolutional neural networks to classify images of two same or two different abstract shapes, testing generalization on within-distribution stimuli. In this article, we comprehensively study whether deep neural networks can acquire and generalize same-different relations both within and out-of-distribution using a variety of architectures, forms of pretraining, and fine-tuning datasets. We find that certain pretrained transformers can learn a same-different relation that generalizes with near perfect accuracy to out-of-distribution stimuli. Furthermore, we find that fine-tuning on abstract shapes that lack texture or color provides the strongest out-of-distribution generalization. Our results suggest that, with the right approach, deep neural networks can learn generalizable same-different visual relations.
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spellingShingle Deep Neural Networks Can Learn Generalizable Same-Different Visual Relations
Tartaglini, Alexa R.
Feucht, Sheridan
Lepori, Michael A.
Vong, Wai Keen
Lovering, Charles
Lake, Brenden M.
Pavlick, Ellie
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Although deep neural networks can achieve human-level performance on many object recognition benchmarks, prior work suggests that these same models fail to learn simple abstract relations, such as determining whether two objects are the same or different. Much of this prior work focuses on training convolutional neural networks to classify images of two same or two different abstract shapes, testing generalization on within-distribution stimuli. In this article, we comprehensively study whether deep neural networks can acquire and generalize same-different relations both within and out-of-distribution using a variety of architectures, forms of pretraining, and fine-tuning datasets. We find that certain pretrained transformers can learn a same-different relation that generalizes with near perfect accuracy to out-of-distribution stimuli. Furthermore, we find that fine-tuning on abstract shapes that lack texture or color provides the strongest out-of-distribution generalization. Our results suggest that, with the right approach, deep neural networks can learn generalizable same-different visual relations.
title Deep Neural Networks Can Learn Generalizable Same-Different Visual Relations
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09612