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We present a new question set, text corpus, and baselines assembled to encourage AI research in advanced question answering. Together, these constitute the AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC), which requires far more powerful knowledge and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Peter Clark , Isaac Cowhey , Oren Etzioni , Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal , Carissa Schoenick , Oyvind Tafjord

Large reasoning models (LRMs) achieve impressive reasoning capabilities by generating lengthy chain-of-thoughts, but this "overthinking" incurs high latency and cost without commensurate accuracy gains. In this work, we introduce AALC, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Ruosen Li , Ziming Luo , Quan Zhang , Ruochen Li , Ben Zhou , Ali Payani , Xinya Du

Accurate prediction of human behavior is essential for robust and safe human-AI collaboration. However, existing approaches for modeling people are often data-hungry and brittle because they either make unrealistic assumptions about…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Kunal Jha , Aydan Yuenan Huang , Eric Ye , Natasha Jaques , Max Kleiman-Weiner

Relational reasoning is the ability to infer relations that jointly bind multiple entities, attributes, or variables. This ability is central to scientific reasoning, but existing evaluations of relational reasoning in large language models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Lukas Fesser , Yasha Ektefaie , Ada Fang , Sham M. Kakade , Marinka Zitnik

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence (ARC-AGI) is a generative, few-shot fluid intelligence benchmark. Although humans effortlessly solve ARC-AGI, it remains extremely difficult for even the most advanced…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Isaac Joffe , Chris Eliasmith

Abstract visual reasoning is a characteristically human ability, allowing the identification of relational patterns that are abstracted away from object features, and the systematic generalization of those patterns to unseen problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shanka Subhra Mondal , Jonathan D. Cohen , Taylor W. Webb

Images usually convey richer detail than text, but often include redundant information, which potentially downgrades multimodal reasoning performance. When faced with lengthy or complex messages, humans tend to employ abstract thinking to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dairu Liu , Ziyue Wang , Minyuan Ruan , Fuwen Luo , Chi Chen , Peng Li , Yang Liu

Achieving artificial visual reasoning - the ability to answer image-related questions which require a multi-step, high-level process - is an important step towards artificial general intelligence. This multi-modal task requires learning a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Ethan Perez , Harm de Vries , Florian Strub , Vincent Dumoulin , Aaron Courville

A fundamental component of human vision is our ability to parse complex visual scenes and judge the relations between their constituent objects. AI benchmarks for visual reasoning have driven rapid progress in recent years with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Aimen Zerroug , Mohit Vaishnav , Julien Colin , Sebastian Musslick , Thomas Serre

Humans continue to outperform modern AI systems in their ability to flexibly parse and understand complex visual scenes. Here, we present a novel module for visual reasoning, the Guided Attention Model for (visual) Reasoning (GAMR), which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Mohit Vaishnav , Thomas Serre

Visual perception and language understanding are - fundamental components of human intelligence, enabling them to understand and reason about objects and their interactions. It is crucial for machines to have this capacity to reason using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Thao Minh Le

Abstract reasoning ability reflects the intelligence and generalization capacity of LLMs to extract and apply abstract rules. However, accurately measuring this ability remains challenging: existing benchmarks either rely on expensive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Qingchuan Ma , Yuexiao Ma , Yongkang Xie , Tianyu Xie , Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji

Humans construct internal world models and reason by manipulating the concepts within these models. Recent advances in AI, particularly chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, approximate such human cognitive abilities, where world models are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jialong Wu , Xiaoying Zhang , Hongyi Yuan , Xiangcheng Zhang , Tianhao Huang , Changjing He , Chaoyi Deng , Renrui Zhang , Youbin Wu , Mingsheng Long

A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to infer abstract rules from limited experience and apply these rules to unfamiliar situations. This capacity is widely studied in the visual domain using the Raven's Progressive Matrices.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Quan Do , Thomas M. Morin , Chantal E. Stern , Michael E. Hasselmo

Abstract reasoning is a cornerstone of human intelligence, and replicating it with artificial intelligence (AI) presents an ongoing challenge. This study focuses on efficiently solving Raven's progressive matrices (RPM), a visual test for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Michael Hersche , Francesco di Stefano , Thomas Hofmann , Abu Sebastian , Abbas Rahimi

Due to their inherent complexity, reasoning tasks have long been regarded as rigorous benchmarks for assessing the capabilities of machine learning models, especially large language models (LLMs). Although humans can solve these tasks with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yunlong Deng , Boyang Sun , Yan Li , Lingjing Kong , Zeyu Tang , Kun Zhang , Guangyi Chen

Long-context reasoning has significantly empowered large language models (LLMs) to tackle complex tasks, yet it introduces severe efficiency bottlenecks due to the computational complexity. Existing efficient approaches often rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yibo Wang , Yongcheng Jing , Shunyu Liu , Hao Guan , Rong-cheng Tu , Chengyu Wang , Jun Huang , Dacheng Tao

Analogical reasoning lies at the core of human cognition and remains a fundamental challenge for artificial intelligence. Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM) serve as a widely used benchmark to assess abstract reasoning by requiring the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Binze Li

Abstract reasoning, the ability to reason from the abstract essence of a problem, serves as a key to generalization in human reasoning. However, eliciting language models to perform reasoning with abstraction remains unexplored. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Ruixin Hong , Hongming Zhang , Xiaoman Pan , Dong Yu , Changshui Zhang

This paper demonstrates that model-based reinforcement learning (model-based RL) is a suitable approach for the task of analogical reasoning. We hypothesize that model-based RL can solve analogical reasoning tasks more efficiently through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jihwan Lee , Woochang Sim , Sejin Kim , Sundong Kim