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We present DiscoSense, a benchmark for commonsense reasoning via understanding a wide variety of discourse connectives. We generate compelling distractors in DiscoSense using Conditional Adversarial Filtering, an extension of Adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Prajjwal Bhargava , Vincent Ng

The ability to combine linguistic guidance from others with direct experience is central to human development, enabling safe and rapid learning in new environments. How do people integrate these two sources of knowledge, and how might AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Cédric Colas , Tracey Mills , Ben Prystawski , Michael Henry Tessler , Noah Goodman , Jacob Andreas , Joshua Tenenbaum

Humans understand language based on the rich background knowledge about how the physical world works, which in turn allows us to reason about the physical world through language. In addition to the properties of objects (e.g., boats require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Maxwell Forbes , Ari Holtzman , Yejin Choi

A plausible definition of "reasoning" could be "algebraically manipulating previously acquired knowledge in order to answer a new question". This definition covers first-order logical inference or probabilistic inference. It also includes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-02-14 Leon Bottou

Cognitive imagination is a type of imagination that plays a key role in human thinking. It is not a ``picture-in-the-head'' imagination. It is a faculty to mentally visualize coherent and holistic systems of concepts and causal links that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Evgenii E. Vityaev , Andrei Mantsivoda

Generative commonsense reasoning refers to the task of generating acceptable and logical assumptions about everyday situations based on commonsense understanding. By utilizing an existing dataset such as Korean CommonGen, language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Dahyun Jung , Jaehyung Seo , Jaewook Lee , Chanjun Park , Heuiseok Lim

Machine reading is a fundamental task for testing the capability of natural language understanding, which is closely related to human cognition in many aspects. With the rising of deep learning techniques, algorithmic models rival human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Jian Liu , Leyang Cui , Hanmeng Liu , Dandan Huang , Yile Wang , Yue Zhang

The ability to perform causal and counterfactual reasoning are central properties of human intelligence. Decision-making systems that can perform these types of reasoning have the potential to be more generalizable and interpretable.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Daniel McDuff , Yale Song , Jiyoung Lee , Vibhav Vineet , Sai Vemprala , Nicholas Gyde , Hadi Salman , Shuang Ma , Kwanghoon Sohn , Ashish Kapoor

Service robots are expected to reliably make sense of complex, fast-changing environments. From a cognitive standpoint, they need the appropriate reasoning capabilities and background knowledge required to exhibit human-like Visual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Agnese Chiatti , Gianluca Bardaro , Enrico Motta , Enrico Daga

Commonsense AI has long been seen as a near impossible goal -- until recently. Now, research interest has sharply increased with an influx of new benchmarks and models. We propose two new ways to evaluate commonsense models, emphasizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Nicholas Lourie , Ronan Le Bras , Chandra Bhagavatula , Yejin Choi

Counterfactual Thinking is a human cognitive ability studied in a wide variety of domains. It captures the process of reasoning about a past event that did not occur, namely what would have happened had this event occurred, or, otherwise,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Luis Moniz Pereira , Francisco C. Santos

Existing commonsense reasoning datasets for AI and NLP tasks fail to address an important aspect of human life: cultural differences. We introduce an approach that extends prior work on crowdsourcing commonsense knowledge by incorporating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Anurag Acharya , Kartik Talamadupula , Mark A Finlayson

Large-scale behavioral datasets enable researchers to use complex machine learning algorithms to better predict human behavior, yet this increased predictive power does not always lead to a better understanding of the behavior in question.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Mayank Agrawal , Joshua C. Peterson , Thomas L. Griffiths

In this article, we present a new machine learning model by imitation based on the linguistic description of complex phenomena. The idea consists of, first, capturing the behaviour of human players by creating a computational perception…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Clemente Rubio-Manzano , Tomas Lermanda , CLaudia Martinez , Alejandra Segura , Christian Vidal

Commonsense knowledge has proven to be beneficial to a variety of application areas, including question answering and natural language understanding. Previous work explored collecting commonsense knowledge triples automatically from text to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Zhicheng Liang , Deborah L. McGuinness

Compiling commonsense knowledge is traditionally an AI topic approached by manual labor. Recent advances in web data processing have enabled automated approaches. In this demonstration we will showcase three systems for automated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Simon Razniewski

We introduce the Continuum Physical Dataset (ContPhy), a novel benchmark for assessing machine physical commonsense. ContPhy complements existing physical reasoning benchmarks by encompassing the inference of diverse physical properties,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zhicheng Zheng , Xin Yan , Zhenfang Chen , Jingzhou Wang , Qin Zhi Eddie Lim , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Commonsense reasoning often involves evaluating multiple plausible interpretations rather than selecting a single atomic answer, yet most benchmarks rely on single-label evaluation, obscuring whether statements are jointly plausible,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Obed Junias , Maria Leonor Pacheco

Autonomous Vehicle (AV) systems have been developed with a strong reliance on machine learning techniques. While machine learning approaches, such as deep learning, are extremely effective at tasks that involve observation and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Keegan Kimbrell

Counterfactual reasoning is widely recognized as one of the most challenging and intricate aspects of causality in artificial intelligence. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of large language models (LLMs) in counterfactual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yuefei Chen , Vivek K. Singh , Jing Ma , Ruixiang Tang