A mechanistic interpretation of syllogistic reasoning in auto-regressive language models

G Kim, M Valentino, A Freitas - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.08590, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent studies on logical reasoning in auto-regressive Language Models (LMs) have
sparked a debate on whether such models can learn systematic reasoning principles during …

A systematic comparison of syllogistic reasoning in humans and language models

T Eisape, MH Tessler, I Dasgupta, F Sha… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A central component of rational behavior is logical inference: the process of determining
which conclusions follow from a set of premises. Psychologists have documented several …

Exploring reasoning biases in large language models through syllogism: insights from the NeuBAROCO dataset

K Ozeki, R Ando, T Morishita, H Abe… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper explores the question of how accurately current large language models can
perform logical reasoning in natural language, with an emphasis on whether these models …

Categorical Syllogisms Revisited: A Review of the Logical Reasoning Abilities of LLMs for Analyzing Categorical Syllogism

S Zong, J Lin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.18762, 2024 - arxiv.org
There have been a huge number of benchmarks proposed to evaluate how large language
models (LLMs) behave for logic inference tasks. However, it remains an open question how …

Socratic Reasoning Improves Positive Text Rewriting

A Goel, N Daheim, I Gurevych - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.03029, 2024 - arxiv.org
Reframing a negative into a positive thought is at the crux of several cognitive approaches to
mental health and psychotherapy that could be made more accessible by large language …

QUENCH: Measuring the gap between Indic and Non-Indic Contextual General Reasoning in LLMs

MA Khan, N Yadav, S Masud, MS Akhtar - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.11763, 2024 - arxiv.org
The rise of large language models (LLMs) has created a need for advanced benchmarking
systems beyond traditional setups. To this end, we introduce QUENCH, a novel text-based …

SR-FoT: A Syllogistic-Reasoning Framework of Thought for Large Language Models Tackling Knowledge-based Reasoning Tasks

W Wan, Z Yang, Y Chen, C Luo, R Wang, K Cai… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Deductive reasoning is a crucial logical capability that assists us in solving complex
problems based on existing knowledge. Although augmented by Chain-of-Thought prompts …

SylloBio-NLI: Evaluating Large Language Models on Biomedical Syllogistic Reasoning

M Wysocka, DS Carvalho, O Wysocki… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Syllogistic reasoning is crucial for Natural Language Inference (NLI). This capability is
particularly significant in specialized domains such as biomedicine, where it can support …