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Logical reasoning over incomplete knowledge graphs to answer complex logical queries is a challenging task. With the emergence of new entities and relations in constantly evolving KGs, inductive logical reasoning over KGs has become a…

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Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in processing graphs, they struggle with comprehending graphical structure information through prompts of graph description sequences, especially as the graph size increases.…

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Although it is known that transformer language models (LMs) pass features from early layers to later layers, it is not well understood how this information is represented and routed by the model. We analyze a mechanism used in two LMs to…

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Recent work suggests that large language models (LLMs) can perform multi-hop reasoning implicitly -- producing correct answers without explicitly verbalizing intermediate steps -- but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Jiaran Ye , Zijun Yao , Zhidian Huang , Liangming Pan , Jinxin Liu , Yushi Bai , Amy Xin , Weichuan Liu , Xiaoyin Che , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Transformer networks have seen great success in natural language processing and machine vision, where task objectives such as next word prediction and image classification benefit from nuanced context sensitivity across high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yuxuan Li , James L. McClelland

Logical reasoning is central to complex human activities, such as thinking, debating, and planning; it is also a central component of many AI systems as well. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which encoder-only transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Paulo Pirozelli , Marcos M. José , Paulo de Tarso P. Filho , Anarosa A. F. Brandão , Fabio G. Cozman

Large Language Models (LLMs) face significant limitations when applied to large-scale graphs, struggling with context constraints and inflexible reasoning. We present GraphChain, a framework that enables LLMs to analyze complex graphs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Chunyu Wei , Wenji Hu , Xingjia Hao , Xin Wang , Yifan Yang , Yueguo Chen , Yang Tian , Yunhai Wang

The Transformer architecture has revolutionized the field of sequence modeling and underpins the recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs). However, a comprehensive mathematical theory that explains its structure and operations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xue-Cheng Tai , Hao Liu , Lingfeng Li , Raymond H. Chan

Neural sequence models based on the transformer architecture have demonstrated remarkable \emph{in-context learning} (ICL) abilities, where they can perform new tasks when prompted with training and test examples, without any parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Yu Bai , Fan Chen , Huan Wang , Caiming Xiong , Song Mei

Transformer models, notably large language models (LLMs), have the remarkable ability to perform in-context learning (ICL) -- to perform new tasks when prompted with unseen input-output examples without any explicit model training. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Steve Yadlowsky , Lyric Doshi , Nilesh Tripuraneni

Large Language Models (LLMs) show strong reasoning ability in open-domain question answering, yet their reasoning processes are typically linear and often logically inconsistent. In contrast, real-world reasoning requires integrating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yingjian Chen , Haoran Liu , Yinhong Liu , Sherry T. Tong , Aosong Feng , Jinghui Lu , Juntao Zhang , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo , Irene Li

In-context learning (ICL) is one of the most powerful and most unexpected capabilities to emerge in recent transformer-based large language models (LLMs). Yet the mechanisms that underlie it are poorly understood. In this paper, we…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in various natural language processing tasks; however, their application to graph-related problems remains limited, primarily due to scalability constraints and the absence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Hyun Lee , Chris Yi , Maminur Islam , B. D. S. Aritra

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities across diverse NLP applications, such as translation, text generation, and question answering. Nevertheless, they remain limited in complex settings that demand deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xin Zhang , Yang Cao , Baoxing Wu , Kai Song , Siying Li

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success across a wide range of tasks; however, they still encounter challenges in reasoning tasks that require understanding and inferring relationships between distinct pieces of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Haoyu Han , Yaochen Xie , Hui Liu , Xianfeng Tang , Sreyashi Nag , William Headden , Hui Liu , Yang Li , Chen Luo , Shuiwang Ji , Qi He , Jiliang Tang

How can we best encode structured data into sequential form for use in large language models (LLMs)? In this work, we introduce a parameter-efficient method to explicitly represent structured data for LLMs. Our method, GraphToken, learns an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Bryan Perozzi , Bahare Fatemi , Dustin Zelle , Anton Tsitsulin , Mehran Kazemi , Rami Al-Rfou , Jonathan Halcrow

Relation extraction represents a fundamental component in the process of creating knowledge graphs, among other applications. Large language models (LLMs) have been adopted as a promising tool for relation extraction, both in supervised and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Paolo Gajo , Domenic Rosati , Hassan Sajjad , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño

Transformers, adapted from natural language processing, are emerging as a leading approach for graph representation learning. Contemporary graph transformers often treat nodes or edges as separate tokens. This approach leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Zihan Pengmei , Zimu Li , Chih-chan Tien , Risi Kondor , Aaron R. Dinner

Large reasoning models (LRMs) generate complex reasoning traces with planning, reflection, verification, and backtracking. In this work, we introduce ReasoningFlow, a unified schema for analyzing the semantic structures of these complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jinu Lee , Sagnik Mukherjee , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Julia Hockenmaier

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains, yet their application to relational deep learning (RDL) remains underexplored. Existing approaches adapt LLMs by traversing relational links…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Fang Wu , Vijay Prakash Dwivedi , Jure Leskovec