Challenge: Experimental results show that stories outperform rules as the expression for retrieving commonsense from LLMs, exhibiting higher generation confidence and commonsensense accuracy.
Approach: They investigate the commonsense ability of large language models expressed through stories and rules to retrieve commonsensing knowledge from LLMs.
Outcome: The stories outperform rules as commonsense expressions on 28 commonsensense QA datasets, exhibiting higher generation confidence and commonsence accuracy.

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