Compositional Generalization via Neural-Symbolic Stack Machines

08/15/2020
by   Xinyun Chen, et al.
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Despite achieving tremendous success, existing deep learning models have exposed limitations in compositional generalization, the capability to learn compositional rules and apply them to unseen cases in a systematic manner. To tackle this issue, we propose the Neural-Symbolic Stack Machine (NeSS). It contains a neural network to generate traces, which are then executed by a symbolic stack machine enhanced with sequence manipulation operations. NeSS combines the expressive power of neural sequence models with the recursion supported by the symbolic stack machine. Without training supervision on execution traces, NeSS achieves 100 domains: the SCAN benchmark of language-driven navigation tasks, the compositional machine translation benchmark, and context-free grammar parsing tasks.

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