2026
Are Object-Centric Representations Better At Compositional Generalization?
Ferdinand Kapl, Amir Mohammad Karimi Mamaghan, Maximilian Seitzer, Karl Johansson, Carsten Marr, Stefan Bauer +1
ICML 2026poster
Compositional generalization, the ability to reason about novel combinations of familiar concepts, is fundamental to human cognition and a critical challenge for machine learning. Object-centric (OC) representations, which encode a scene as a set of objects, are often argued to support such generali…