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Reasoning abilities of LLMs have been a key focus in recent years. One challenging reasoning domain with interesting nuances is legal reasoning, which requires careful application of rules, and precedents while balancing deductive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Venkatesh Mishra , Bimsara Pathiraja , Mihir Parmar , Sat Chidananda , Jayanth Srinivasa , Gaowen Liu , Ali Payani , Chitta Baral

Most reasoning benchmarks for LLMs emphasize factual accuracy or step-by-step logic. In finance, however, professionals must not only converge on optimal decisions but also generate creative, plausible futures under uncertainty. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Zhuang Qiang Bok , Watson Wei Khong Chua

In this paper, we present an investigative study on how Mental Sets influence the reasoning capabilities of LLMs. LLMs have excelled in diverse natural language processing (NLP) tasks, driven by advancements in parameter-efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Saiful Haq , Niyati Chhaya , Piyush Pandey , Pushpak Bhattacharya

Large language models are increasingly used as computational tools for modeling human-like behavior. We introduce a behavioral induction framework that modifies model policies through fine-tuning on structured decision-making tasks: using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Nicola Milano , Davide Marocco

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly solve difficult problems by producing "reasoning traces" before emitting a final response. However, it remains unclear how accuracy and decision commitment evolve along a reasoning trajectory, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Marthe Ballon , Brecht Verbeken , Vincent Ginis , Andres Algaba

Financial documents like earning reports or balance sheets often involve long tables and multi-page reports. Large language models have become a new tool to help numerical reasoning and understanding these documents. However, prompt quality…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yaoning Yu , Kai-Min Chang , Ye Yu , Kai Wei , Haojing Luo , Haohan Wang

Current approaches to enhancing LLM reasoning follows two isolated paradigms: Monitor-Generate methods like Plan-and-Solve (Wang et al., 2023) and SELF-DISCOVER (Zhou et al., 2024) excel at strategic planning but lack mechanisms to verify…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nick Oh

How should one judge whether a given large language model (LLM) can reliably perform economic reasoning? Most existing LLM benchmarks focus on specific applications and fail to present the model with a rich variety of economic tasks. A…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Narun Raman , Taylor Lundy , Thiago Amin , Jesse Perla , Kevin Leyton-Brown

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted in financial analysis for interpreting complex market data and trends. However, their use is challenged by intrinsic biases (e.g., risk-preference bias) and a superficial understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yuhang Zhou , Yuchen Ni , Yunhui Gan , Zhangyue Yin , Xiang Liu , Jian Zhang , Sen Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Guangnan Ye , Hongfeng Chai

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for high-stakes decision-making, yet existing approaches struggle to reconcile scalability, interpretability, and reproducibility. Black-box models obscure their reasoning, while recent…

Personalization in Question Answering (QA) requires answers that are both accurate and aligned with users' background, preferences, and historical context. Existing state-of-the-art methods primarily rely on retrieval-augmented generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Maryam Amirizaniani , Alireza Salemi , Hamed Zamani

As the construction industry advances toward digital transformation, BIM (Building Information Modeling)-based design has become a key driver supporting intelligent construction. Despite Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown potential in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jia-Rui Lin , Yun-Hong Cai , Xiang-Rui Ni , Shaojie Zhou , Peng Pan

Recognizing whether outputs from large language models (LLMs) contain faithfulness hallucination is crucial for real-world applications, e.g., retrieval-augmented generation and summarization. In this paper, we introduce FaithLens, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Shuzheng Si , Qingyi Wang , Haozhe Zhao , Yuzhuo Bai , Guanqiao Chen , Kangyang Luo , Gang Chen , Fanchao Qi , Minjia Zhang , Baobao Chang , Maosong Sun

We investigate the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs), including reasoning-based and non-reasoning models, in performing zero-shot financial sentiment analysis. Using the Financial PhraseBank dataset annotated by domain experts,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Dimitris Vamvourellis , Dhagash Mehta

Eye-tracking data reveals valuable insights into users' cognitive states but is difficult to analyze due to its structured, non-linguistic nature. While large language models (LLMs) excel at reasoning over text, they struggle with temporal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Dongyang Guo , Yasmeen Abdrabou , Enkeleda Thaqi , Enkelejda Kasneci

Large Language Models demonstrate strong reasoning and generation abilities, yet their behavior in multi-turn tasks often lacks reliability and verifiability. We present a task completion framework that enables LLM-based agents to act under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Gonca Gürsun

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities, but scaling their performance often relies on massive reasoning datasets that are computationally expensive to train on. Existing data selection methods aim…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Shaobo Wang , Yongliang Miao , Yuancheng Liu , Qianli Ma , Ning Liao , Linfeng Zhang

Understanding a program's runtime reasoning behavior, meaning how intermediate states and control flows lead to final execution results, is essential for reliable code generation, debugging, and automated reasoning. Although large language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mohammad Abdollahi , Khandaker Rifah Tasnia , Soumit Kanti Saha , Jinqiu Yang , Song Wang , Hadi Hemmati

The reasoning steps generated by LLMs might be incomplete, as they mimic logical leaps common in everyday communication found in their pre-training data: underlying rationales are frequently left implicit (unstated). To address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Dongwei Jiang , Guoxuan Wang , Yining Lu , Andrew Wang , Jingyu Zhang , Chuyu Liu , Benjamin Van Durme , Daniel Khashabi

Large Language Models have achieved strong performance on reasoning tasks, solving competition-level coding and math problems. However, their scalability is limited by human-labeled datasets and the lack of large-scale, challenging coding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hanxu Hu , Xingxing Zhang , Jannis Vamvas , Rico Sennrich , Furu Wei