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Machine learning models support decision-making, yet the reasons behind their predictions are opaque. Clear and reliable explanations help users make informed decisions and avoid blindly trusting model outputs. However, many existing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Francisco Mateus Rocha Filho , Ajalmar Rêgo da Rocha Neto , Thiago Alves Rocha

Prompting large language models has enabled significant recent progress in multi-step reasoning over text. However, when applied to text generation from semi-structured data (e.g., graphs or tables), these methods typically suffer from low…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Swarnadeep Saha , Xinyan Velocity Yu , Mohit Bansal , Ramakanth Pasunuru , Asli Celikyilmaz

Recent research has shown that rationales, or step-by-step chains of thought, can be used to improve performance in multi-step reasoning tasks. We reconsider rationale-augmented prompting for few-shot in-context learning, where (input ->…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xuezhi Wang , Jason Wei , Dale Schuurmans , Quoc Le , Ed Chi , Denny Zhou

While large language models (LLMs) equipped with techniques like chain-of-thought prompting have demonstrated impressive capabilities, they still fall short in their ability to reason robustly in complex settings. However, evaluating LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zayne Sprague , Xi Ye , Kaj Bostrom , Swarat Chaudhuri , Greg Durrett

How can AI move beyond imitation toward genuine creativity? This paper proposes the E.A.R.T.H. framework, a five-stage generative pipeline that transforms model-generated errors into creative assets through Error generation, Amplification,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yusen Peng , Shuhua Mao

Generative question answering (QA) models generate answers to questions either solely based on the parameters of the model (the closed-book setting) or additionally retrieving relevant evidence (the open-book setting). Generative QA models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Zhengbao Jiang , Jun Araki , Haibo Ding , Graham Neubig

Laughter is a unique expression, essential to affirmative social interactions of humans. Although current 3D talking head generation methods produce convincing verbal articulations, they often fail to capture the vitality and subtleties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Kim Sung-Bin , Lee Hyun , Da Hye Hong , Suekyeong Nam , Janghoon Ju , Tae-Hyun Oh

Humor is an essential human trait. Efforts to understand humor have called out links between humor and the foundations of cognition, as well as the importance of humor in social engagement. As such, it is a promising and important subject…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Robert West , Eric Horvitz

Memes are one of the most ubiquitous forms of social media communication. The study and processing of memes, which are intrinsically multimedia, is a popular topic right now. The study presented in this research is based on the Memotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Nayan Varma Alluri , Neeli Dheeraj Krishna

A previous paper presented Witscript, a system for generating conversational jokes that rely on wordplay. This paper extends that work by presenting Witscript 2, which uses a large language model to generate conversational jokes that rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Joe Toplyn

Motivation: Students learning to program often reach states where they are stuck and can make no forward progress. An automatically generated next-step hint can help them make forward progress and support their learning. It is important to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Neil C. C. Brown , Pierre Weill-Tessier , Juho Leinonen , Paul Denny , Michael Kölling

Humans have an impressive ability to reason about new concepts and experiences from just a single example. In particular, humans have an ability for one-shot generalization: an ability to encounter a new concept, understand its structure,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-26 Danilo Jimenez Rezende , Shakir Mohamed , Ivo Danihelka , Karol Gregor , Daan Wierstra

In most existing AI humor research, humor was treated as either "present" or "not present." We explore the concept of humor as a social interaction with context and explanations. During this project, we defined a humor reasoning data object…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Anna Arnett , Bang Nguyen , Meng Jiang

Detecting if a text is humorous is a hard task to do computationally, as it usually requires linguistic and common sense insights. In machine learning, humor detection is usually modeled as a binary classification task, trained to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Thomas Winters , Pieter Delobelle

Large language models (LLMs) with billions of parameters exhibit in-context learning abilities, enabling few-shot learning on tasks that the model was not specifically trained for. Traditional models achieve breakthrough performance on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Aske Plaat , Annie Wong , Suzan Verberne , Joost Broekens , Niki van Stein , Thomas Back

Comedy serves as a profound reflection of the times we live in and is a staple element of human interactions. In light of the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), the intersection of humor and AI has become no laughing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Adrianna Romanowski , Pedro H. V. Valois , Kazuhiro Fukui

We study the task of prompting large-scale language models to perform multi-step reasoning. Existing work shows that when prompted with a chain of thoughts (CoT), sequences of short sentences describing intermediate reasoning steps towards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yao Fu , Hao Peng , Ashish Sabharwal , Peter Clark , Tushar Khot

General Question Answering (QA) systems over texts require the multi-hop reasoning capability, i.e. the ability to reason with information collected from multiple passages to derive the answer. In this paper we conduct a systematic analysis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Haoyu Wang , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Rajarshi Das , Wenhan Xiong , Tian Gao

Human emotion synthesis is a crucial aspect of affective computing. It involves using computational methods to mimic and convey human emotions through various modalities, with the goal of enabling more natural and effective human-computer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fei Ma , Yukan Li , Yifan Xie , Ying He , Yi Zhang , Hongwei Ren , Zhou Liu , Wei Yao , Fuji Ren , Fei Richard Yu , Shiguang Ni

Irony is a ubiquitous figurative language in daily communication. Previously, many researchers have approached irony from linguistic, cognitive science, and computational aspects. Recently, some progress have been witnessed in automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Qingcheng Zeng , An-Ran Li