Explainable Verbal Reasoner Plus (EVR+): A Natural Language Reasoning Framework that Supports Diverse Compositional Reasoning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00061v1
• Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:27:26 GMT
• Title: Explainable Verbal Reasoner Plus (EVR+): A Natural Language Reasoning Framework that Supports Diverse Compositional Reasoning
• Authors: Zhengzhong Liang, Zeyu Zhang, Steven Bethard, Mihai Surdeanu
• Abstract summary: We present Explainable Verbal Reasoner Plus (EVR+), a reasoning framework that enhances language models' compositional reasoning ability. Our framework supports more diverse types of reasoning such as nested loops and different types of recursion. Results show that our reasoning framework can enhance the language model's compositional generalization performance on the five tasks.
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• Abstract: Languages models have been successfully applied to a variety of reasoning tasks in NLP, yet the language models still suffer from compositional generalization. In this paper we present Explainable Verbal Reasoner Plus (EVR+), a reasoning framework that enhances language models' compositional reasoning ability by (1) allowing the model to explicitly generate and execute symbolic operators, and (2) allowing the model to decompose a complex task into several simpler ones in a flexible manner. Compared with its predecessor Explainable Verbal Reasoner (EVR) and other previous approaches adopting similar ideas, our framework supports more diverse types of reasoning such as nested loops and different types of recursion. To evaluate our reasoning framework, we build a synthetic dataset with five tasks that require compositional reasoning. Results show that our reasoning framework can enhance the language model's compositional generalization performance on the five tasks, using a fine-tuned language model. We also discussed the possibility and the challenges to combine our reasoning framework with a few-shot prompted language model.

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