TY - JOUR AU - Misra, Kanishka PY - 2022/06/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - On Semantic Cognition, Inductive Generalization, and Language Models JF - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence JA - AAAI VL - 36 IS - 11 SE - The Twenty - Seventh AAAI / SIGAI Doctoral Consortium DO - 10.1609/aaai.v36i11.21584 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/21584 SP - 12894-12895 AB - 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. ER -