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This study evaluates the GPT-4 Large Language Model's abductive reasoning in complex fields like medical diagnostics, criminology, and cosmology. Using an interactive interview format, the AI assistant demonstrated reliability in generating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Remo Pareschi

Real world decision-making requires constructing mental models under uncertainty over evidence, over the underlying causal rules, and over the state of the world itself. Which computational principles underpin human inference under such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jeffrey Qin , Wasu Top Piriyakulki , Zhuangfei Gao , Mia Radovanovic , Jessica Sommerville , Kevin Ellis , Marta Kryven

We examine how well the state-of-the-art (SOTA) models used in legal reasoning support abductive reasoning tasks. Abductive reasoning is a form of logical inference in which a hypothesis is formulated from a set of observations, and that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Ha-Thanh Nguyen , Randy Goebel , Francesca Toni , Kostas Stathis , Ken Satoh

Large Language Models (LLMs) show impressive inductive reasoning capabilities, enabling them to generate hypotheses that could generalize effectively to new instances when guided by in-context demonstrations. However, in real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Zhuo Liu , Ding Yu , Hangfeng He

Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is a principled approach for generalizing regularities from data and constructing hypotheses as interpretable logic programs. However, a key limitation is its reliance on expert-crafted language bias - the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yang Yang , Jiemin Wu , Yutao Yue

A common approach to hallucination detection casts it as a natural language inference (NLI) task, often using LLMs to classify whether the generated text is entailed by corresponding reference texts. Since entailment classification is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Ron Eliav , Arie Cattan , Eran Hirsch , Shahaf Bassan , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Mohit Bansal , Ido Dagan

Abductive reasoning, reasoning for inferring explanations for observations, is often mentioned in scientific, design-related and artistic contexts, but its understanding varies across these domains. This paper reviews how abductive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Abhinav Sood , Kazjon Grace , Stephen Wan , Cecile Paris

Deductive reasoning plays a pivotal role in the formulation of sound and cohesive arguments. It allows individuals to draw conclusions that logically follow, given the truth value of the information provided. Recent progress in the domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Philipp Mondorf , Barbara Plank

A human decision-maker benefits the most from an AI assistant that corrects for their biases. For problems such as generating interpretation of a radiology report given findings, a system predicting only highly likely outcomes may be less…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Liyan Tang , Yifan Peng , Yanshan Wang , Ying Ding , Greg Durrett , Justin F. Rousseau

Inductive reasoning enables humans to infer abstract rules from limited examples and apply them to novel situations. In this work, we compare an LLM-based hypothesis search framework with direct program generation approaches on few-shot…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Aishni Parab , Hongjing Lu , Ying Nian Wu , Sumit Gulwani

Hypothetical induction is recognized as the main reasoning type when scientists make observations about the world and try to propose hypotheses to explain those observations. Past research on hypothetical induction is under a constrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zonglin Yang , Xinya Du , Junxian Li , Jie Zheng , Soujanya Poria , Erik Cambria

Event relations are crucial for narrative understanding and reasoning. Governed by nuanced logic, event relation extraction (ERE) is a challenging task that demands thorough semantic understanding and rigorous logical reasoning. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Meiqi Chen , Yubo Ma , Kaitao Song , Yixin Cao , Yan Zhang , Dongsheng Li

Natural language inference (NLI) is a fundamental NLP task, investigating the entailment relationship between two texts. Popular NLI datasets present the task at sentence-level. While adequate for testing semantic representations, they fall…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Hanmeng Liu , Leyang Cui , Jian Liu , Yue Zhang

The growing range of applications of Machine Learning (ML) in a multitude of settings motivates the ability of computing small explanations for predictions made. Small explanations are generally accepted as easier for human decision makers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Alexey Ignatiev , Nina Narodytska , Joao Marques-Silva

Transformers have recently been shown to be capable of reliably performing logical reasoning over facts and rules expressed in natural language, but abductive reasoning - inference to the best explanation of an unexpected observation - has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Nathan Young , Qiming Bao , Joshua Bensemann , Michael Witbrock

Most of the contemporary approaches for multi-hop Natural Language Inference (NLI) construct explanations considering each test case in isolation. However, this paradigm is known to suffer from semantic drift, a phenomenon that causes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Marco Valentino , Mokanarangan Thayaparan , André Freitas

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on enormous amounts of data and encode knowledge in their parameters. We propose a pipeline to elicit causal relationships from LLMs. Specifically, (i) we sample many documents from LLMs on a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Takashi Kameyama , Masahiro Kato , Yasuko Hio , Yasushi Takano , Naoto Minakawa

The Natural Language Inference (NLI) task is an important task in modern NLP, as it asks a broad question to which many other tasks may be reducible: Given a pair of sentences, does the first entail the second? Although the state-of-the-art…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Zaid Marji , Animesh Nighojkar , John Licato

Modeling plausible student misconceptions is critical for AI in education. In this work, we examine how large language models (LLMs) reason about misconceptions when generating multiple-choice distractors, a task that requires modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yanick Zengaffinen , Andreas Opedal , Donya Rooein , Kv Aditya Srivatsa , Shashank Sonkar , Mrinmaya Sachan

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly help people solve problems, from debugging code to repairing machinery. This process requires generating plausible hypotheses from partial descriptions, then updating them as more information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hua-Dong Xiong