On The Specialization of Neural Modules

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14981v1
• Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:58:11 GMT
• Title: On The Specialization of Neural Modules
• Authors: Devon Jarvis, Richard Klein, Benjamin Rosman, Andrew M. Saxe,
• Abstract summary: We study the ability of network modules to specialize to useful structures in a dataset and achieve systematic generalization. Our results shed light on the difficulty of module specialization, what is required for modules to successfully specialize, and the necessity of modular architectures to achieve systematicity.
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• Abstract: A number of machine learning models have been proposed with the goal of achieving systematic generalization: the ability to reason about new situations by combining aspects of previous experiences. These models leverage compositional architectures which aim to learn specialized modules dedicated to structures in a task that can be composed to solve novel problems with similar structures. While the compositionality of these architectures is guaranteed by design, the modules specializing is not. Here we theoretically study the ability of network modules to specialize to useful structures in a dataset and achieve systematic generalization. To this end we introduce a minimal space of datasets motivated by practical systematic generalization benchmarks. From this space of datasets we present a mathematical definition of systematicity and study the learning dynamics of linear neural modules when solving components of the task. Our results shed light on the difficulty of module specialization, what is required for modules to successfully specialize, and the necessity of modular architectures to achieve systematicity. Finally, we confirm that the theoretical results in our tractable setting generalize to more complex datasets and non-linear architectures.

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