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    "pk": 29834,
    "title": "Relational reasoning and generalization using non-symbolic neural networks",
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    "abstract": "Humans have a remarkable capacity to reason about abstract relational structures, an ability that may support some ofthe most impressive, human-unique cognitive feats. Equality (or identity) reasoning has been a key case study of abstractrelational reasoning. This paper revisits the question of whether equality can be learned in non-symbolic neural networks.We find that simple neural networks are able to learn basic equality with relatively little training data. In a second casestudy, we show that sequential equality problems (learning ABA sequences) can be solved with only positive traininginstances. Finally, we consider a more complex, hierarchical equality problem, and find that this task can be solved witheither avast amount of training data or pre-training on basic equality. Overall, these findings indicate that neural modelsare able to solve equality-based reasoning tasks, suggesting that essential aspects of symbolic reasoning can emerge fromdata-driven,non-symbolic learning processes.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [],
    "section": "Poster Session 2",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/07g9963b",
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        {
            "first_name": "Atticus",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Geiger",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Alexandra",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Carstensen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Frank",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Christopher",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Potts",
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            "institution": "Stanford University",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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