Is human compositionality meta-learned?
Jacob RussinSam Whitman McGrathEllie PavlickMichael J FrankPublished in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2024)
Recent studies suggest that meta-learning may provide an original solution to an enduring puzzle about whether neural networks can explain compositionality - in particular, by raising the prospect that compositionality can be understood as an emergent property of an inner-loop learning algorithm. We elaborate on this hypothesis and consider its empirical predictions regarding the neural mechanisms and development of human compositionality.