Summary of Causaleval: Towards Better Causal Reasoning in Language Models, by Longxuan Yu and Delin Chen and Siheng Xiong and Qingyang Wu and Qingzhen Liu and Dawei Li and Zhikai Chen and Xiaoze Liu and Liangming Pan
CausalEval: Towards Better Causal Reasoning in Language Models
by Longxuan Yu, Delin Chen, Siheng Xiong, Qingyang Wu, Qingzhen Liu, Dawei Li, Zhikai Chen, Xiaoze Liu, Liangming Pan
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces CausalEval, a comprehensive review of methods aimed at enhancing language models (LMs) for causal reasoning tasks. The authors categorize existing methods into two categories: those that use LMs as reasoning engines and those that utilize LMs to provide knowledge or data to traditional causal reasoning methods. They then evaluate the performance of current LMs and various enhancement methods on a range of causal reasoning tasks, providing key findings and in-depth analysis. This study aims to serve as a comprehensive resource for advancing causal reasoning with LMs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about how computers can learn to think like humans when it comes to figuring out why things happen. Right now, computer models can come up with reasons for what they do, but they’re not very good at understanding the real causes behind events. The authors of this paper look at all the ways scientists are trying to make these computer models better at causal reasoning. They then test how well different methods work on various tasks that require understanding causality. This study will help us learn more about how computers can become smarter and better at solving problems. |
