ConceptMetonymic Grounding / 转喻电路
Metonymic Grounding Mechanism
A mechanistic hypothesis about abstract concept understanding in vision models. It posits that models first activate concrete, perceptually accessible visual anchor concepts and then associate those anchors with abstract semantic targets, paralleling the rhetorical device of metonymy as studied in linguistics.
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Oct 7
The metonymic grounding mechanism refers to the model building a bridge from visual signals to abstract semantics through concrete, interpretable anchor concepts.
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Oct 7
Before reaching an abstract concept, the model first activates concrete anchor concepts resembling objects.
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