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Physical commonsense reasoning represents a fundamental capability of human intelligence, enabling individuals to understand their environment, predict future events, and navigate physical spaces. Recent years have witnessed growing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jaione Bengoetxea , Itziar Gonzalez-Dios , Rodrigo Agerri

Commonsense knowledge is essential for advancing natural language processing (NLP) by enabling models to engage in human-like reasoning, which requires a deeper understanding of context and often involves making inferences based on implicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yubo Xie , Zonghui Liu , Zongyang Ma , Fanyuan Meng , Yan Xiao , Fahui Miao , Pearl Pu

Commonsense reasoning has long been considered as one of the holy grails of artificial intelligence. Most of the recent progress in the field has been achieved by novel machine learning algorithms for natural language processing. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Tanel Tammet

We introduce the Probabilistic Worldbuilding Model (PWM), a new fully-symbolic Bayesian model of semantic parsing and reasoning, as a first step in a research program toward more domain- and task-general NLU and AI. Humans create internal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Abulhair Saparov , Tom M. Mitchell

Commonsense knowledge, a major constituent of artificial intelligence (AI), is primarily evaluated in practice by human-prescribed ground-truth labels. An important, albeit implicit, assumption of these labels is that they accurately…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Tuan Dung Nguyen , Duncan J. Watts , Mark E. Whiting

This study evaluates the GPT-4 Large Language Model's abductive reasoning in complex fields like medical diagnostics, criminology, and cosmology. Using an interactive interview format, the AI assistant demonstrated reliability in generating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Remo Pareschi

Commonsense reasoning deals with the implicit knowledge that is well understood by humans and typically acquired via interactions with the world. In recent times, commonsense reasoning and understanding of various LLMs have been evaluated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Abhinav Joshi , Areeb Ahmad , Divyaksh Shukla , Ashutosh Modi

The development of large language models (LLMs), such as GPT, has enabled the construction of several socialbots, like ChatGPT, that are receiving a lot of attention for their ability to simulate a human conversation. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yankai Zeng , Abhiramon Rajashekharan , Kinjal Basu , Huaduo Wang , Joaquín Arias , Gopal Gupta

Hallucination is a major challenge for large language models (LLMs), preventing their further application in some fields. The skeptical thinking of humankind could be useful for LLMs to self-cognition, self-reflection and alleviate their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yetao Wu , Yihong Wang , Teng Chen , Ningyuan Xi , Qingqing Gu , Hongyang Lei , Luo Ji

Commonsense reasoning is a difficult task for a computer, but a critical skill for an artificial intelligence (AI). It can enhance the explainability of AI models by enabling them to provide intuitive and human-like explanations for their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Stefanie Krause , Frieder Stolzenburg

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), natural language processing (NLP) has achieved remarkable progress. Nonetheless, significant challenges remain in handling texts with ambiguity, polysemy, or uncertainty. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ping Chen , Xiang Liu , Zhaoxiang Liu , Zezhou Chen , Xingpeng Zhang , Huan Hu , Zipeng Wang , Kai Wang , Shuming Shi , Shiguo Lian

Large language models (LLMs) are capable of answering knowledge-intensive complex questions with chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. However, they tend to generate factually incorrect reasoning steps when the required knowledge is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Shulin Cao , Jiajie Zhang , Jiaxin Shi , Xin Lv , Zijun Yao , Qi Tian , Juanzi Li , Lei Hou

Large language models have shown astonishing performance on a wide range of reasoning tasks. In this paper, we investigate whether they could reason about real-world events and help improve the prediction performance of event sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xiaoming Shi , Siqiao Xue , Kangrui Wang , Fan Zhou , James Y. Zhang , Jun Zhou , Chenhao Tan , Hongyuan Mei

With the recent progress of Large Language Models (LLMs), there is a growing interest in applying these models to solve complex and challenging problems. Modern LLMs, capable of processing long contexts and generating verbalized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 WonJin Yoon , Kangyu Zhu , Ian Bulovic , Autumn Sehy , Yanjun Gao , Dmitriy Dligach , Majid Afshar , Timothy A. Miller

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable improvements in reasoning and many existing benchmarks have been addressed by models such as o1 and o3 either fully or partially. However, a majority of these benchmarks emphasize deductive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Wenyue Hua , Tyler Wong , Sun Fei , Liangming Pan , Adam Jardine , William Yang Wang

Open-ended Commonsense Reasoning is defined as solving a commonsense question without providing 1) a short list of answer candidates and 2) a pre-defined answer scope. Conventional ways of formulating the commonsense question into a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Chen Ling , Xuchao Zhang , Xujiang Zhao , Yanchi Liu , Wei Cheng , Mika Oishi , Takao Osaki , Katsushi Matsuda , Haifeng Chen , Liang Zhao

This paper presents a plausible reasoning system to illustrate some broad issues in knowledge representation: dualities between different reasoning forms, the difficulty of unifying complementary reasoning styles, and the approximate nature…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Wray L. Buntine

Abductive reasoning is a popular non-monotonic paradigm that aims to explain observed symptoms and manifestations. It has many applications, such as diagnosis and planning in artificial intelligence and database updates. In propositional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Johannes Schmidt , Mohamed Maizia , Victor Lagerkvist , Johannes K. Fichte

Large Language Models (LLMs) have succeeded remarkably in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, yet their reasoning capabilities remain a fundamental challenge. While LLMs exhibit impressive fluency and factual recall, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Avinash Patil , Aryan Jadon

The prevalence of unwarranted beliefs, spanning pseudoscience, logical fallacies, and conspiracy theories, presents substantial societal hurdles and the risk of disseminating misinformation. Utilizing established psychometric assessments,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Sowmya S Sundaram , Balaji Alwar