(2017. 6) Relational Network

  • Submitted on 2017. 6

  • Adam Santoro, David Raposo, David G.T. Barrett, Mateusz Malinowski, Razvan Pascanu, Peter Battaglia and Timothy Lillicrap

Simple Summary

Relation Networks (RNs) as a simple plug-and-play module to solve problems that fundamentally hinge on relational reasoning. We tested RN-augmented networks on three tasks: visual question answering using a challenging dataset called CLEVR, on which we achieve state-of-the-art, super-human performance; text-based question answering using the bAbI suite of tasks; and complex reasoning about dynamic physical systems

  • The difficulty of reasoning relations

    • Symbolic approaches - define relations between symbols using logic languages, and reason the relations using deduction and algebra.

    • Statistical learning - build representations from raw data and generalize across diverse and noisy conditions

  • Pros:

    1. Learn to Infer relations: All-to-all

    2. RNs are data efficient: Single function g to compute each relation

    3. Operate on a set of objects: Order invariant

  • Tasks

    1. CLVER : 95.5 % (super-human preformance)

    2. Sort-of-CLEVR : > 94%

    3. bAbi: Succeeded on 18/20 tasks

    4. Dynamic physical systems: 93% conntion, 95% counting

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