Summary of Ltlbench: Towards Benchmarks For Evaluating Temporal Logic Reasoning in Large Language Models, by Weizhi Tang et al.
LTLBench: Towards Benchmarks for Evaluating Temporal Logic Reasoning in Large Language Models
by Weizhi Tang, Vaishak Belle
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed approach designs a pipeline to construct datasets evaluating the temporal reasoning (TR) ability of Large Language Models (LLMs). This is achieved by leveraging random directed graph generation, Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula, and the NuSMV model checker. A dataset, LTLBench, consisting of 2,000 TR challenges, is constructed using this pipeline and evaluated on six LLMs. Additional experiments explore the impact of increasing events and formula operators on TR problem complexity and LLM performance. Although LLMs show promise in handling TR challenges, they struggle with complex TR. This work provides insights into LLM TR ability while offering a valuable tool for future evaluations. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large Language Models can understand and process temporal information and relationships between events. To test their ability to do this, researchers created special datasets called LTLBench. These datasets are made up of 2,000 challenges that ask the models to reason about time in different ways. The researchers used six different language models to see how well they could handle these challenges. They found that while the models can do some simple tasks, they struggle with more complex ones. |
