Summary of Reason From Fallacy: Enhancing Large Language Models’ Logical Reasoning Through Logical Fallacy Understanding, by Yanda Li et al.
Reason from Fallacy: Enhancing Large Language Models’ Logical Reasoning through Logical Fallacy Understanding
by Yanda Li, Dixuan Wang, Jiaqing Liang, Guochao Jiang, Qianyu He, Yanghua Xiao, Deqing Yang
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Apr 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 paper explores the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) in logical reasoning tasks and introduces a new dataset, Logical Fallacy Understanding Dataset (LFUD), to evaluate their capabilities. The authors identify overlooking of logical fallacies as a significant reason for LLMs’ suboptimal performance and propose five concrete tasks from three cognitive dimensions: WHAT, WHY, and HOW. To create LFUD, the researchers used GPT-4 and added minimal human effort. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LFUD can not only assess LLMs’ understanding of logical fallacies but also fine-tune them to achieve significant performance improvements on logical reasoning tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper studies why Large Language Models struggle with certain thinking tasks, such as logical reasoning. It finds that these models often get things wrong because they don’t understand common mistakes in logic. To test how well language models do at recognizing these errors, the researchers created a new dataset and five specific challenges. They used a powerful model called GPT-4 to make this dataset, with just a little help from humans. The results show that this dataset can be used not only to see how well language models perform but also to improve their ability to think logically. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gpt
