用图神经网络解析人类推理中的先验假设,解释行为差异。
From Priors to Predictions: Explaining and Visualizing Human Reasoning in a Graph Neural Network Framework
- 将人类推理的先验知识建模为可调节的图结构先验
- 不同先验配置能解释个体在ARC任务中的解题差异
- 可视化关键节点与边,揭示错误源于先验不完整或错误
人类能在极少样本下解决新颖推理问题,依赖于对哪些实体和关系重要的归纳偏置。然而这些偏置的计算形式及其神经实现仍不清晰。本文提出一个结合图论与图神经网络(GNN)的框架,将归纳偏置形式化为显式的、可操作的结构与抽象先验。基于从抽象与推理语料库(ARC)改编的人类行为数据集,我们发现图结构先验的差异可解释个体解题方式的不同。方法包含一个优化流程,搜索不同边连接度与节点抽象层级的图配置,并提出一种可视化技术,识别模型预测中至关重要的计算图子结构。系统性消融实验揭示泛化能力如何依赖特定先验结构及内部处理过程,暴露了人类式错误源自错误或不完整的先验。本工作提供了一个有原则、可解释的框架,用于建模泛化背后的表征假设与计算动态,为理解人类推理提供了新视角,并为更符合人类认知的AI系统奠定基础。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Humans excel at solving novel reasoning problems from minimal exposure, guided by inductive biases, assumptions about which entities and relationships matter. Yet the computational form of these biases and their neural implementation remain poorly understood. We introduce a framework that combines Graph Theory and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to formalize inductive biases as explicit, manipulable priors over structure and abstraction. Using a human behavioral dataset adapted from the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC), we show that differences in graph-based priors can explain individual differences in human solutions. Our method includes an optimization pipeline that searches over graph configurations, varying edge connectivity and node abstraction, and a visualization approach that identifies the computational graph, the subset of nodes and edges most critical to a model's prediction. Systematic ablation reveals how generalization depends on specific prior structures and internal processing, exposing why human like errors emerge from incorrect or incomplete priors. This work provides a principled, interpretable framework for modeling the representational assumptions and computational dynamics underlying generalization, offering new insights into human reasoning and a foundation for more human aligned AI systems.
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