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We study the framework of abductive logic programming extended with integrity constraints. For this framework, we introduce a new measure of the simplicity of an explanation based on its degree of \emph{arbitrariness}: the more arbitrary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Luciano Caroprese , Irina Trubitsyna , Miroslaw Truszczynski , Ester Zumpano

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit advanced reasoning skills, enabling robots to comprehend natural language instructions and strategically plan high-level actions through proper grounding. However, LLM hallucination may result in robots…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Kaiqu Liang , Zixu Zhang , Jaime Fernández Fisac

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have made reasoning a central benchmark for evaluating intelligence. While prior surveys focus on efficiency by examining how to shorten reasoning chains or reduce computation, this view…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chao Wu , Baoheng Li , Mingchen Gao , Yu Tian , Zhenyi Wang

We attempt to solve the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) Challenge using Large Language Models (LLMs) as a system of multiple expert agents. Using the flexibility of LLMs to be prompted to do various novel tasks using zero-shot,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 John Chong Min Tan , Mehul Motani

One of the key strengths of Large Language Models (LLMs) is their ability to interact with humans by generating appropriate responses to given instructions. This ability, known as instruction-following capability, has established a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Hyeonseok Moon , Jaehyung Seo , Seungyoon Lee , Chanjun Park , Heuiseok Lim

At its core, abstraction is the process of generalizing from specific instances to broader concepts or models, with the primary objective of reducing complexity while preserving properties essential to the intended purpose. It is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Andrzej Szalas

Mathematical programming -- the task of expressing operations and decision-making problems in precise mathematical language -- is fundamental across domains, yet remains a skill-intensive process requiring operations research expertise.…

Solving complex, temporally-extended tasks is a long-standing problem in reinforcement learning (RL). We hypothesize that one critical element of solving such problems is the notion of compositionality. With the ability to learn concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Yiding Jiang , Shixiang Gu , Kevin Murphy , Chelsea Finn

While inference-time scaling enables LLMs to carry out increasingly long and capable reasoning traces, the patterns and insights uncovered during these traces are immediately discarded once the context window is reset for a new query.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Matthew Ho , Chen Si , Zhaoxiang Feng , Fangxu Yu , Yichi Yang , Zhijian Liu , Zhiting Hu , Lianhui Qin

As applications of large language models (LLMs) become increasingly complex, the demand for robust complex instruction following capabilities is growing accordingly. We argue that a thorough understanding of the instruction itself,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuancheng Yang , Lin Yang , Xu Wang , Chao Tong , Haihua Yang

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities but struggle with reasoning errors due to hallucinations and flawed logic. To investigate their internal representations of reasoning, we introduce ArrangementPuzzle, a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Adam Atanas , Kai Liu

We study the utility of incorporating entity type abstractions into pre-trained Transformers and test these methods on four NLP tasks requiring different forms of logical reasoning: (1) compositional language understanding with text-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Nicolas Gontier , Siva Reddy , Christopher Pal

Large language models have recently shown promising progress in mathematical reasoning when fine-tuned with human-generated sequences walking through a sequence of solution steps. However, the solution sequences are not formally structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Andrew J. Nam , Mengye Ren , Chelsea Finn , James L. McClelland

While interpretability methods identify a model's learned concepts, they overlook the relationships between concepts that make up its abstractions and inform its ability to generalize to new data. To assess whether models' have learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Angie Boggust , Hyemin Bang , Hendrik Strobelt , Arvind Satyanarayan

Abstraction is a well-known approach to simplify a complex problem by over-approximating it with a deliberate loss of information. It was not considered so far in Answer Set Programming (ASP), a convenient tool for problem solving. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Zeynep G. Saribatur , Thomas Eiter

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have garnered significant attention, offering a promising pathway toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Among the essential capabilities required for AGI, creativity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yifan Liu , Wenkuan Zhao , Shanshan Zhong , Jinghui Qin , Mingfu Liang , Zhongzhan Huang , Wushao Wen

Mitigating hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) is critical for their reliable deployment. Existing methods typically fine-tune LLMs to abstain from answering questions beyond their knowledge scope. However, these methods often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Hao An , Yang Xu

Abstraction is a fundamental part when learning behavioral models of systems. Usually the process of abstraction is manually defined by domain experts. This paper presents a method to perform automatic abstraction for network protocols. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Tobias Schrank , Franz Pernkopf

Approximations during program analysis are a necessary evil, as they ensure essential properties, such as soundness and termination of the analysis, but they also imply not always producing useful results. Automatic techniques have been…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Isabel Garcia-Contreras , Jose F. Morales , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of answering questions in natural language for various purposes. With recent advancements (such as GPT-4), LLMs perform at a level comparable to humans for many proficient tasks. The analysis of…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Alessandro Berti , Daniel Schuster , Wil M. P. van der Aalst