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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Learning Numerosity Representations with Transformers: Number Generation Tasks and Out-of-Distribution Generalization.

Tommaso Boccato, Alberto Testolin, Marco Zorzi

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Tommaso BoccatoDepartment of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Alberto TestolinDepartment of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7062-4861
Marco ZorziDepartment of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4651-6390

Funding

Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo Progetti di eccellenza 2017 Numsense
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the most rapidly advancing areas of deep learning research aims at creating models that learn to disentangle the latent factors of variation from a data distribution. However, modeling joint probability mass functions is usually prohibitive, which motivates the use of conditional models assuming that some information is given as input. In the domain of numerical cognition, deep learning architectures have successfully demonstrated that approximate numerosity representations can emerge in multi-layer networks that build latent representations of a set of images with a varying number of items. However, existing models have focused on tasks requiring to conditionally estimate numerosity information from a

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attention mechanismscognitive modelingdeep neural networksdensity estimationnumerosity perception

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PMID34356398
PMCPMC8303966

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