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We study the generalization abilities of language models when translating natural language into formal specifications with complex semantics. In particular, we fine-tune language models on three datasets consisting of English sentences and…

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Human logic has gradually shifted from intuition-driven inference to rigorous formal systems. Motivated by recent advances in large language models (LLMs), we explore whether LLMs exhibit a similar evolution in the underlying logical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhengqing Zang , Yuqi Ding , Yanmei Gu , Changkai Song , Zhengkai Yang , Guoping Du , Junbo Zhao , Haobo Wang

While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various natural language processing tasks by acquiring rich factual knowledge from their broad training data, their ability to synthesize and logically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Tianshi Zheng , Jiaxin Bai , Yicheng Wang , Tianqing Fang , Yue Guo , Yauwai Yim , Yangqiu Song

Logic-based argumentation is a well-established formalism modelling nonmonotonic reasoning. It has been playing a major role in AI for decades, now. Informally, a set of formulas is the support for a given claim if it is consistent,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yasir Mahmood , Arne Meier , Johannes Schmidt

LLMs are ideal for decision-making thanks to their ability to reason over long contexts. However, challenges arise when processing speech transcripts that describe complex scenarios, as they are verbose and include repetition, hedging, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yebowen Hu , Xiaoyang Wang , Wenlin Yao , Yiming Lu , Daoan Zhang , Hassan Foroosh , Dong Yu , Fei Liu

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced question-answering (QA) capabilities, particularly in open-domain contexts. However, in closed-domain scenarios such as education, healthcare, and law, users demand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Tuan Bui , Trong Le , Phat Thai , Sang Nguyen , Minh Hua , Ngan Pham , Thang Bui , Tho Quan

Defeasible conditionals are a form of non-monotonic inference which enable the expression of statements like "if $\phi$ then normally $\psi$". The KLM framework defines a semantics for the propositional case of defeasible conditionals by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Lucas Carr , Nicholas Leisegang , Thomas Meyer , Sergei Obiedkov

In various provers and deductive verification tools, logical transformations are used extensively in order to reduce a proof task into a number of simpler tasks. Logical transformations are often part of the trusted base of such tools. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Quentin Garchery

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities given chain-of-thought prompts (examples with intermediate reasoning steps). Existing benchmarks measure reasoning ability indirectly, by evaluating accuracy on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Abulhair Saparov , He He

Realizability for knowledge representation formalisms studies the following question: given a semantics and a set of interpretations, is there a knowledge base whose semantics coincides exactly with the given interpretation set? We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Thomas Linsbichler , Jörg Pührer , Hannes Strass

Studies have underscored how, regardless of the recent breakthrough and swift advances in AI research, even state-of-the-art Large Language models (LLMs) continue to struggle when performing logical and mathematical reasoning. The results…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Federico Castagna , Isabel Sassoon , Simon Parsons

We perform a thorough analysis of the formal and informal statements in the miniF2F benchmark from the perspective of an AI system that is tasked to participate in a math Olympiad consisting of the problems in miniF2F. In such setting, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Azim Ospanov , Farzan Farnia , Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

This paper tackles the problem of formulating and proving the completeness of focused-like proof systems in an automated fashion. Focusing is a discipline on proofs which structures them into phases in order to reduce proof search…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Vivek Nigam , Giselle Reis , Leonardo Lima

Training large language models (LLMs) with synthetic reasoning data has become a popular approach to enhancing their reasoning capabilities, while a key factor influencing the effectiveness of this paradigm is the quality of the generated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhuojie Yang , Wentao Wan , Keze Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive reasoning capabilities, yet existing prompting methods face a critical trade-off: simple approaches often struggle with complex tasks and reasoning stability, while more sophisticated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Guangya Wan , Yuqi Wu , Hao Wang , Shengming Zhao , Jie Chen , Sheng Li

Formalizing mathematical proofs using computerized verification languages like Lean 4 has the potential to significantly impact the field of mathematics, it offers prominent capabilities for advancing mathematical reasoning. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Xichen Tang

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly explored as general-purpose reasoners, particularly in agentic contexts. However, their outputs remain prone to mathematical and logical errors. This is especially challenging in open-ended…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Agnieszka Mensfelt , Kostas Stathis , Vince Trencsenyi

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive human-like performance across various reasoning tasks. However, their mastery of underlying inferential rules still falls short of human capabilities. To investigate this, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Siyuan Wang , Zhongyu Wei , Yejin Choi , Xiang Ren

Non-normal modal logics, interpreted on neighbourhood models which generalise the usual relational semantics, have found application in several areas, such as epistemic, deontic, and coalitional reasoning. We present here preliminary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Tiziano Dalmonte , Andrea Mazzullo , Ana Ozaki

For performance and verification in machine learning, new methods have recently been proposed that optimise learning systems to satisfy formally expressed logical properties. Among these methods, differentiable logics (DLs) are used to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Reynald Affeldt , Alessandro Bruni , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Natalia Ślusarz , Kathrin Stark