no code implementations • 22 Mar 2024 • Ryan Teehan, Brenden Lake, Mengye Ren
Current language models are unable to quickly learn new concepts on the fly, often requiring a more involved finetuning process to learn robustly.
no code implementations • 6 Feb 2024 • Sreejan Kumar, Raja Marjieh, Byron Zhang, Declan Campbell, Michael Y. Hu, Umang Bhatt, Brenden Lake, Thomas L. Griffiths
To investigate the effect language on the formation of abstractions, we implement a novel multimodal serial reproduction framework by asking people who receive a visual stimulus to reproduce it in a linguistic format, and vice versa.
1 code implementation • 22 Feb 2022 • Laura Ruis, Brenden Lake
After training on an augmented dataset with almost forty times more adverbs than the original problem, a non-modular baseline is not able to systematically generalize to a novel combination of a known verb and adverb.
1 code implementation • 6 Oct 2020 • Ramakrishna Vedantam, Arthur Szlam, Maximilian Nickel, Ari Morcos, Brenden Lake
Humans can learn and reason under substantial uncertainty in a space of infinitely many concepts, including structured relational concepts ("a scene with objects that have the same color") and ad-hoc categories defined through goals ("objects that could fall on one's head").
no code implementations • ICLR 2018 • Brenden Lake, Marco Baroni
Humans can understand and produce new utterances effortlessly, thanks to their systematic compositional skills.