On Semantic Cognition, Inductive Generalization, and Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02603v1
• Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 03:19:52 GMT
• Title: On Semantic Cognition, Inductive Generalization, and Language Models
• Authors: Kanishka Misra
• Abstract summary: My research focuses on understanding semantic knowledge in neural network models trained solely to predict natural language (referred to as language models, or LMs) I propose a framework inspired by 'inductive reasoning,' a phenomenon that sheds light on how humans utilize background knowledge to make inductive leaps and generalize from new pieces of information about concepts and their properties.
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• Abstract: My doctoral research focuses on understanding semantic knowledge in neural network models trained solely to predict natural language (referred to as language models, or LMs), by drawing on insights from the study of concepts and categories grounded in cognitive science. I propose a framework inspired by 'inductive reasoning,' a phenomenon that sheds light on how humans utilize background knowledge to make inductive leaps and generalize from new pieces of information about concepts and their properties. Drawing from experiments that study inductive reasoning, I propose to analyze semantic inductive generalization in LMs using phenomena observed in human-induction literature, investigate inductive behavior on tasks such as implicit reasoning and emergent feature recognition, and analyze and relate induction dynamics to the learned conceptual representation space.

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