Paper accepted at COLM oral: richer graph representations can generalise worse

PMinervini · x · 2026-10-21

Alessio Cagiano and colleagues' paper "Graph-to-Table Interfaces Control Relational Generalisation" is accepted as an oral at COLM.

The work asks a counterintuitive question: can a richer graph representation generalise worse? By casting relational reasoning as a graph-to-table interface, the authors systematically test how changing the row encoder, the labelled context, or the decoder affects relational generalisation, with the setup illustrated via hypernym queries like wolf → canine.

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