Understanding Reasoning Ability of Language Models From the Perspective of Reasoning Paths Aggregation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03268v3
• Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 18:46:06 GMT
• Title: Understanding Reasoning Ability of Language Models From the Perspective of Reasoning Paths Aggregation
• Authors: Xinyi Wang, Alfonso Amayuelas, Kexun Zhang, Liangming Pan, Wenhu Chen, William Yang Wang,
• Abstract summary: We view LMs as deriving new conclusions by aggregating indirect reasoning paths seen at pre-training time. We formalize the reasoning paths as random walk paths on the knowledge/reasoning graphs. Experiments and analysis on multiple KG and CoT datasets reveal the effect of training on random walk paths.
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• Abstract: Pre-trained language models (LMs) are able to perform complex reasoning without explicit fine-tuning. To understand how pre-training with a next-token prediction objective contributes to the emergence of such reasoning capability, we propose that we can view an LM as deriving new conclusions by aggregating indirect reasoning paths seen at pre-training time. We found this perspective effective in two important cases of reasoning: logic reasoning with knowledge graphs (KGs) and chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. More specifically, we formalize the reasoning paths as random walk paths on the knowledge/reasoning graphs. Analyses of learned LM distributions suggest that a weighted sum of relevant random walk path probabilities is a reasonable way to explain how LMs reason. Experiments and analysis on multiple KG and CoT datasets reveal the effect of training on random walk paths and suggest that augmenting unlabeled random walk reasoning paths can improve real-world multi-step reasoning performance. code: https://github.com/WANGXinyiLinda/LM_random_walk

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