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Pretrained language models based on the transformer architecture have shown great success in NLP. Textual training data often comes from the web and is thus tagged with time-specific information, but most language models ignore this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Guy D. Rosin , Kira Radinsky

Language Models (LMs) become outdated as the world changes; they often fail to perform tasks requiring recent factual information which was absent or different during training, a phenomenon called temporal misalignment. This is especially a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Joel Jang , Seonghyeon Ye , Changho Lee , Sohee Yang , Joongbo Shin , Janghoon Han , Gyeonghun Kim , Minjoon Seo

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at temporal reasoning tasks like event ordering and duration estimation, their ability to perceive the actual passage of time remains unexplored. We investigate whether LLMs perceive the passage of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Minghan Wang , Ye Bai , Thuy-Trang Vu , Ehsan Shareghi , Gholamreza Haffari

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown potential in clinical text summarization, but their ability to handle long patient trajectories with multi-modal data spread across time remains underexplored. This study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Maya Kruse , Shiyue Hu , Nicholas Derby , Yifu Wu , Samantha Stonbraker , Bingsheng Yao , Dakuo Wang , Elizabeth Goldberg , Yanjun Gao

Large Language Models (LLMs) are pretrained on textual data up to a specific temporal cutoff. This creates a strict knowledge boundary beyond which models cannot provide accurate information without querying external sources. More subtly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Piotr Pęzik , Konrad Kaczyński , Maria Szymańska , Filip Żarnecki , Zuzanna Deckert , Jakub Kwiatkowski , Wojciech Janowski

Grasping the concept of time is a fundamental facet of human cognition, indispensable for truly comprehending the intricacies of the world. Previous studies typically focus on specific aspects of time, lacking a comprehensive temporal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Zheng Chu , Jingchang Chen , Qianglong Chen , Weijiang Yu , Haotian Wang , Ming Liu , Bing Qin

In the evolving field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), understanding the temporal context of text is increasingly critical for applications requiring advanced temporal reasoning. Traditional pre-trained language models like BERT, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jiexin Wang , Adam Jatowt , Yi Cai

Language is far more than a communication tool. A wealth of information - including but not limited to the identities, psychological states, and social contexts of its users - can be gleaned through linguistic markers, and such insights are…

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities in question answering and reasoning thanks to their extensive parametric memory. However, their knowledge is inherently limited by the scope of their pre-training data, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Atahan Özer , Çağatay Yıldız

Large Language Models (LLMs) are important tools for reasoning and problem-solving, while they often operate passively, answering questions without actively discovering new ones. This limitation reduces their ability to simulate human-like…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Hong Su

The recent success of Large Language Models (LLMs) has prompted the extension to the multimodal domain, developing image-text Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) and then video-text models. In this work, we investigate the challenge of contextual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Hector Rodriguez , Boris Meinardus , Anil Batra , Anna Rohrbach , Marcus Rohrbach

Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLM) have stirred up global attention, and the research has been accelerating non-stop since then. Philosophers and psychologists have also been researching the structure of language for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Joseph Chen

Uncovering hidden symbolic laws from time series data, as an aspiration dating back to Kepler's discovery of planetary motion, remains a core challenge in scientific discovery and artificial intelligence. While Large Language Models show…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Zewen Liu , Juntong Ni , Xianfeng Tang , Max S. Y. Lau , Qi He , Wenpeng Yin , Wei Jin

Over the recent years, large pretrained language models (LM) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP). However, while pretraining on general language has been shown to work very well for common language, it has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Nicolas Webersinke , Mathias Kraus , Julia Anna Bingler , Markus Leippold

The existing methods for evaluating the medical knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs) are largely based on atemporal examination-style benchmarks, while in reality, medical knowledge is inherently dynamic and continuously evolves as new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zihan Guan , Qiao Jin , Guangzhi Xiong , Fangyuan Chen , Mengxuan Hu , Qingyu Chen , Yifan Peng , Zhiyong Lu , Anil Vullikanti

Temporal reasoning is fundamental for large language models (LLMs) to comprehend the world. Current temporal reasoning datasets are limited to questions about single or isolated events, falling short in mirroring the realistic temporal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Zhaochen Su , Juntao Li , Jun Zhang , Tong Zhu , Xiaoye Qu , Pan Zhou , Yan Bowen , Yu Cheng , Min zhang

Recent research has revealed that neural language models at scale suffer from poor temporal generalization capability, i.e., the language model pre-trained on static data from past years performs worse over time on emerging data. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zhaochen Su , Zecheng Tang , Xinyan Guan , Juntao Li , Lijun Wu , Min Zhang

Cross-modal reasoning (CMR), the intricate process of synthesizing and drawing inferences across divergent sensory modalities, is increasingly recognized as a crucial capability in the progression toward more sophisticated and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shengsheng Qian , Zuyi Zhou , Dizhan Xue , Bing Wang , Changsheng Xu

While factual correctness and task-performance have been in focus of Large Language Model (LLM) research for a long time, the fundamental question of how human-like generated texts are on a linguistic level has been underexplored. From a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Björn Nieth , Marianna Gracheva , Michaela Mahlberg , Bjoern Eskofier , Emmanuelle Salin

The digital landscape is rapidly evolving with an ever-increasing volume of online news, emphasizing the need for swift and precise analysis of complex events. We refer to the complex events composed of many news articles over an extended…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zhihan Zhang , Yixin Cao , Chenchen Ye , Yunshan Ma , Lizi Liao , Tat-Seng Chua