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Does neural machine translation yield translations that are congenial with common sense? In this paper, we present a test suite to evaluate the commonsense reasoning capability of neural machine translation. The test suite consists of three…

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Metaphorical comprehension in images remains a critical challenge for AI systems, as existing models struggle to grasp the nuanced cultural, emotional, and contextual implications embedded in visual content. While multimodal large language…

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Logical reasoning, i.e., deductively inferring the truth value of a conclusion from a set of premises, is an important task for artificial intelligence with wide potential impacts on science, mathematics, and society. While many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Theo X. Olausson , Alex Gu , Benjamin Lipkin , Cedegao E. Zhang , Armando Solar-Lezama , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Roger Levy

Understanding narratives requires reading between the lines, which in turn, requires interpreting the likely causes and effects of events, even when they are not mentioned explicitly. In this paper, we introduce Cosmos QA, a large-scale…

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In this paper, we aim to establish a simple, effective, and theoretically grounded benchmark for rigorously probing abstract reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs). To achieve this, we first develop a mathematic framework that defines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Qingchuan Ma , Yuhang Wu , Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji

Tidying up a messy table may appear simple for humans, but articulating clear criteria for tidiness is challenging due to the ambiguous nature of common sense reasoning. Large Language Models (LLMs) have proven capable of capturing common…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yiqing Xu , David Hsu

Ensuring that critical IoT systems function safely and smoothly depends a lot on finding anomalies quickly. As more complex systems, like smart healthcare, energy grids and industrial automation, appear, it is easier to see the shortcomings…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Raghav Sharma , Manan Mehta

Logic Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a subfield of AI where variables can take two defined arguments, True or False, and are arranged in clauses that follow the rules of formal logic. Several problems that span from physical systems to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Alba Cervera-Lierta , Mario Krenn , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Conditional text generation has been a challenging task that is yet to see human-level performance from state-of-the-art models. In this work, we specifically focus on the Commongen benchmark, wherein the aim is to generate a plausible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yikang Li , Pulkit Goel , Varsha Kuppur Rajendra , Har Simrat Singh , Jonathan Francis , Kaixin Ma , Eric Nyberg , Alessandro Oltramari

Large language models (LLMs) have developed impressive performance and strong explainability across various reasoning scenarios, marking a significant stride towards mimicking human-like intelligence. Despite this, when tasked with several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Kai Xiong , Xiao Ding , Ting Liu , Bing Qin , Dongliang Xu , Qing Yang , Hongtao Liu , Yixin Cao

A traditional approach to assessing emerging intelligence in the theory of intelligent systems is based on the similarity, "imitation" of human-like actions and behaviors, benchmarking the performance of intelligent systems on the scale of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Serge Dolgikh

Traditional belief revision frameworks often rely on the principle of minimalism, which advocates minimal changes to existing beliefs. However, research in human cognition suggests that people are inherently driven to seek explanations for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Stylianos Loukas Vasileiou , William Yeoh

We examine how users perceive the limitations of an AI system when it encounters a task that it cannot perform perfectly and whether providing explanations alongside its answers aids users in constructing an appropriate mental model of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Judith Sieker , Simeon Junker , Ronja Utescher , Nazia Attari , Heiko Wersing , Hendrik Buschmeier , Sina Zarrieß

A core part of human intelligence is the ability to work flexibly with others to achieve goals. The incorporation of artificial agents into human spaces is making increasing demands on artificial intelligence (AI) to demonstrate and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-30 William J. Bingley , S. Alexander Haslam , Janet Wiles

Recent advancements in zero-shot commonsense reasoning have empowered Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) to acquire extensive commonsense knowledge without requiring task-specific fine-tuning. Despite this progress, these models frequently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hyuntae Park , Yeachan Kim , SangKeun Lee

Commonsense reasoning is an appealing topic in natural language processing (NLP) as it plays a fundamental role in supporting the human-like actions of NLP systems. With large-scale language models as the backbone, unsupervised pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Letian Peng , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

In this paper, we advance the study of AI-augmented reasoning in the context of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), psychology and cognitive science, focusing on the critical task of visual perception. Specifically, we investigate the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Shravan Chaudhari , Trilokya Akula , Yoon Kim , Tom Blake

Large language models (LLMs) are powerful AI tools that can generate and comprehend natural language text and other complex information. However, the field lacks a mathematical framework to systematically describe, compare and improve LLMs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Javier González , Aditya V. Nori

AI solutions seem to appear in any and all application domains. As AI becomes more pervasive, the importance of quality assurance increases. Unfortunately, there is no consensus on what artificial intelligence means and interpretations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Markus Borg

We propose WorldSense, a benchmark designed to assess the extent to which LLMs are consistently able to sustain tacit world models, by testing how they draw simple inferences from descriptions of simple arrangements of entities. Worldsense…