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Large language models have been shown to suffer from reasoning inconsistency issues. That is, they fail more in situations unfamiliar to the training data, even though exact or very similar reasoning paths exist in more common cases that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ben Zhou , Sarthak Jain , Yi Zhang , Qiang Ning , Shuai Wang , Yassine Benajiba , Dan Roth

The vital role of analogical reasoning in human cognition allows us to grasp novel concepts by linking them with familiar ones through shared relational structures. Despite the attention previous research has given to word analogies, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Siyu Yuan , Jiangjie Chen , Xuyang Ge , Yanghua Xiao , Deqing Yang

Despite the success of language models using neural networks, it remains unclear to what extent neural models have the generalization ability to perform inferences. In this paper, we introduce a method for evaluating whether neural models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Hitomi Yanaka , Koji Mineshima , Daisuke Bekki , Kentaro Inui

Analogical reasoning is a hallmark of human intelligence, enabling us to solve new problems by transferring knowledge from one situation to another. Yet, developing artificial intelligence systems capable of robust human-like analogical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Philipp Hellwig , Willem Zuidema , Claire E. Stevenson , Martha Lewis

The potential of large language models (LLMs) to reason like humans has been a highly contested topic in Machine Learning communities. However, the reasoning abilities of humans are multifaceted and can be seen in various forms, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Shrivats Agrawal

This study investigates whether large language models, specifically GPT4, can match human capabilities in analogical reasoning within strategic decision making contexts. Using a novel experimental design involving source to target matching,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Phanish Puranam , Prothit Sen , Maciej Workiewicz

Research in analogical reasoning suggests that higher-order cognitive functions such as abstract reasoning, far transfer, and creativity are founded on recognizing structural similarities among relational systems. Here we integrate theories…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-01 James M. Foster , Matt Jones

Analogical reasoning is a powerful qualitative reasoning tool that enables humans to connect two situations, and to generalize their knowledge from familiar to novel situations. Cognitive Science research provides valuable insights into the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Thiloshon Nagarajah , Filip Ilievski , Jay Pujara

Analogical reasoning plays a critical role in human cognition, enabling us to understand new concepts by associating them with familiar ones. Previous research in the AI community has mainly focused on identifying and generating analogies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Siyu Yuan , Cheng Jiayang , Lin Qiu , Deqing Yang

Machines have achieved a broad and growing set of linguistic competencies, thanks to recent progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Psychologists have shown increasing interest in such models, comparing their output to psychological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Brenden M. Lake , Gregory L. Murphy

Analogical reasoning is a fundamental cognitive ability of humans. However, current language models (LMs) still struggle to achieve human-like performance in analogical reasoning tasks due to a lack of resources for model training. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Siyu Yuan , Jiangjie Chen , Changzhi Sun , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Deqing Yang

Evaluating reasoning ability in Large Language Models (LLMs) is important for advancing artificial intelligence, as it transcends mere linguistic task performance. It involves understanding whether these models truly understand information,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Benjamin Grando Moreira

To predict what someone will say is to model how they think. We study this through next-turn dialogue prediction: given a conversation, predict the next utterance produced by a person. We compare learning approaches along two dimensions:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Kanishk Gandhi , Agam Bhatia , Noah D. Goodman

A core tension in models of concept learning is that the model must carefully balance the tractability of inference against the expressivity of the hypothesis class. Humans, however, can efficiently learn a broad range of concepts. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Kevin Ellis

Analogical reasoning is a unique ability of humans to address unfamiliar challenges by transferring strategies from relevant past experiences. One key finding in psychology is that compared with irrelevant past experiences, recalling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chengwei Qin , Wenhan Xia , Tan Wang , Fangkai Jiao , Yuchen Hu , Bosheng Ding , Ruirui Chen , Shafiq Joty

Language models (LMs) are said to be exhibiting reasoning, but what does this entail? We assess definitions of reasoning and how key papers in the field of natural language processing (NLP) use the notion and argue that the definitions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Bertram Højer

Analogies play a central role in human commonsense reasoning. The ability to recognize analogies such as "eye is to seeing what ear is to hearing", sometimes referred to as analogical proportions, shape how we structure knowledge and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Asahi Ushio , Luis Espinosa-Anke , Steven Schockaert , Jose Camacho-Collados

Large Language Models have shown tremendous performance on a large variety of natural language processing tasks, ranging from text comprehension to common sense reasoning. However, the mechanisms responsible for this success remain opaque,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Gaël Gendron , Qiming Bao , Michael Witbrock , Gillian Dobbie

Building systems that achieve a deeper understanding of language is one of the central goals of natural language processing (NLP). Towards this goal, recent works have begun to train language models on narrative datasets which require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Khai Loong Aw , Mariya Toneva

Simile interpretation is a crucial task in natural language processing. Nowadays, pre-trained language models (PLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on many tasks. However, it remains under-explored whether PLMs can interpret…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Qianyu He , Sijie Cheng , Zhixu Li , Rui Xie , Yanghua Xiao