Learning Object-Centric Visual Representations for Common Sense Reasoning

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Abstract: People understand the world as a sum of its parts. Our effortless mental ability to simulate and imagine what will happen crucially depends on a scene representation that is compositional with respect to objects and the interactions between them. Similarly, learning representations with an emphasis on the perception and understanding of objects plays a key role in building human-like AI capable of supporting higher-level cognitive abilities such as common sense reasoning, causal reasoning, and goal-oriented planning. Many current methods in machine learning focus on learning structured representations in which objects are only implicitly represented, which poses a threat to model interpretability. Motivated by these observations, this work aims to develop algorithms for learning object-centric representations in which objects are explicitly represented. Given the importance of objects in human cognition, we draw inspiration from cognitive science to motivate and provide theoretical underpinnings. Specifically, we take a rationalist approach in augmenting deep neural network architectures to exhibit object-centric representations, and demonstrate empirically how these representations can be efficieintly leveraged for downstream tasks such as controllable image synthesis.

Author	Tan, Kevin

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/qh579dj1968
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/qh579dj1968

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Preferred citation: Tan, K. (2021). Learning Object-Centric Visual Representations for Common Sense Reasoning. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/qh579dj1968

Master's Theses, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University

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