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Commonsense reasoning is intuitive for humans but has been a long-term challenge for artificial intelligence (AI). Recent advancements in pretrained language models have shown promising results on several commonsense benchmark datasets.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Shikhar Singh , Nuan Wen , Yu Hou , Pegah Alipoormolabashi , Te-Lin Wu , Xuezhe Ma , Nanyun Peng

Algorithmic reasoning is a fundamental cognitive ability that plays a pivotal role in problem-solving and decision-making processes. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has demonstrated remarkable proficiency in tasks such as motor control,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Benjamin Estermann , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Yannick Niedermayr , Roger Wattenhofer

Recent efforts in natural language processing (NLP) commonsense reasoning research have yielded a considerable number of new datasets and benchmarks. However, most of these datasets formulate commonsense reasoning challenges in artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Mete Ismayilzada , Debjit Paul , Syrielle Montariol , Mor Geva , Antoine Bosselut

Despite their linguistic competence, Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle to reason reliably and flexibly. To identify these shortcomings, we introduce the Non-Linear Reasoning (NLR) dataset, a collection of 55 unique, hand-designed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nasim Borazjanizadeh , Steven T. Piantadosi

Recent scholarship on reasoning in LLMs has supplied evidence of impressive performance and flexible adaptation to machine generated or human feedback. Nonmonotonic reasoning, crucial to human cognition for navigating the real world,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Alina Leidinger , Robert van Rooij , Ekaterina Shutova

Correcting students' multiple-choice answers is a repetitive and mechanical task that can be considered an image multi-classification task. Assuming possible options are 'abcd' and the correct option is one of the four, some students may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 JiaJun Zhu , Zichuan Yang , Binjie Hong , Jiacheng Song , Jiwei Wang , Tianhao Chen , Shuilan Yang , Zixun Lan , Fei Ma

The possible consequences for the same context may vary depending on the situation we refer to. However, current studies in natural language processing do not focus on situated commonsense reasoning under multiple possible scenarios. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Mana Ashida , Saku Sugawara

Questions involving commonsense reasoning about everyday situations often admit many $\textit{possible}$ or $\textit{plausible}$ answers. In contrast, multiple-choice question (MCQ) benchmarks for commonsense reasoning require a hard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shramay Palta , Nishant Balepur , Peter Rankel , Sarah Wiegreffe , Marine Carpuat , Rachel Rudinger

Scaling reasoning capabilities beyond traditional domains such as math and coding is hindered by the lack of diverse and high-quality questions. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a scalable approach for generating diverse and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Weizhe Yuan , Jane Yu , Song Jiang , Karthik Padthe , Yang Li , Ilia Kulikov , Kyunghyun Cho , Dong Wang , Yuandong Tian , Jason E Weston , Xian Li

The SemEval 2024 BRAINTEASER task challenges language models to perform lateral thinking -- a form of creative, non-linear reasoning that remains underexplored in NLP. The task comprises two subtasks, Sentence Puzzle and Word Puzzle,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Mina Ghashami , Soumya Smruti Mishra

We provide here a dataset for tasks related to natural language understanding and natural language inference. The dataset contains logical puzzles in natural language from three domains: comparing puzzles, knighs and knaves, and zebra…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Roxana Szomiu , Adrian Groza

Deep neural models have repeatedly proved excellent at memorizing surface patterns from large datasets for various ML and NLP benchmarks. They struggle to achieve human-like thinking, however, because they lack the skill of iterative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Gözde Gül Şahin , Yova Kementchedjhieva , Phillip Rust , Iryna Gurevych

Statements involving metalinguistic self-reference ("This paper has six sections.") are prevalent in many domains. Can current large language models (LLMs) handle such language? In this paper, we present "I am a Strange Dataset", a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Tristan Thrush , Jared Moore , Miguel Monares , Christopher Potts , Douwe Kiela

Commonsense reasoning simulates the human ability to make presumptions about our physical world, and it is an indispensable cornerstone in building general AI systems. We propose a new commonsense reasoning dataset based on human's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Yufei Feng , Xiaodan Zhu , Michael Greenspan , Murray Campbell

People often share personal narratives in order to seek advice from others. To properly infer the narrator's intention, one needs to apply a certain degree of common sense and social intuition. To test the capabilities of NLP systems to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Liye Fu , Jonathan P. Chang , Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

The success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in human-AI collaborative decision-making hinges on their ability to provide trustworthy, gradual, and tailored explanations. Solving complex puzzles, such as Sudoku, offers a canonical example of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Anirudh Maiya , Razan Alghamdi , Maria Leonor Pacheco , Ashutosh Trivedi , Fabio Somenzi

Crossword puzzles are popular word games that require not only a large vocabulary, but also a broad knowledge of topics. Answering each clue is a natural language task on its own as many clues contain nuances, puns, or counter-intuitive…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at many multimodal tasks, yet their cognitive processes remain opaque on complex lateral thinking challenges like rebus puzzles. While recent work has demonstrated these models struggle significantly with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Prahitha Movva

Consider a robot tasked with tidying a desk with a meticulously constructed Lego sports car. A human may recognize that it is not appropriate to disassemble the sports car and put it away as part of the "tidying." How can a robot reach that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Minae Kwon , Hengyuan Hu , Vivek Myers , Siddharth Karamcheti , Anca Dragan , Dorsa Sadigh

The extent to which large language models (LLMs) can perform culturally grounded reasoning across non-English languages remains underexplored. This paper examines the reasoning and self-assessment abilities of LLMs across seven major Indian…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Abhinav P M , Ojasva Saxena , Oswald C , Parameswari Krishnamurthy