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Poster

Learning to Infer Generative Template Programs for Visual Concepts

R. Kenny Jones · Siddhartha Chaudhuri · Daniel Ritchie

Hall C 4-9 #201
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Wed 24 Jul 2:30 a.m. PDT — 4 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

People grasp flexible visual concepts from a few examples. We explore a neurosymbolic system that learns how to infer programs that capture visual concepts in a domain-general fashion. We introduce Template Programs: programmatic expressions from a domain-specific language that specify structural and parametric patterns common to an input concept. Our framework supports multiple concept-related tasks, including few-shot generation and co-segmentation through parsing. We develop a learning paradigm that allows us to train networks that infer Template Programs directly from visual datasets that contain concept groupings. We run experiments across multiple visual domains: 2D layouts, Omniglot characters, and 3D shapes. We find that our method outperforms task-specific alternatives, and performs competitively against domain-specific approaches for the limited domains where they exist.

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