Challenge: Existing studies show that pre-trained language models lack commonsense knowledge .
Approach: They propose a contextualized knowledge prompting scheme to guide the contextualization of structured commonsense knowledge based on large language models.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art technique by an average of 5.8%.

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Challenge: Existing evaluations of commonsense for large language models focus on downstream knowledge tasks, failing to probe whether LLMs truly understand and utilize knowledge or merely memorize it.
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Challenge: Pretrained deep contextual representations have advanced the state-of-the-art on various commonsense NLP tasks, but we lack a concrete understanding of their capabilities.
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Improving Unsupervised Commonsense Reasoning Using Knowledge-Enabled Natural Language Inference (2021.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Recent methods based on pre-trained language models have shown strong supervised performance on commonsense reasoning.
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COMET: Commonsense Transformers for Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction (P19-1)

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Challenge: Existing studies on commonsense knowledge base construction only store loosely structured open-text descriptions of knowledge.
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CAT: A Contextualized Conceptualization and Instantiation Framework for Commonsense Reasoning (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: HKUST-KnowComp proposes a framework for commonsense reasoning that can be used to conceptualize commonsence knowledge bases at scale.
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Generative Data Augmentation for Commonsense Reasoning (2020.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Recent advances in commonsense reasoning depend on large-scale human-authored training data.
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Jeff Da at COIN - Shared Task: BIG MOOD: Relating Transformers to Explicit Commonsense Knowledge (D19-60)

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Challenge: Recent studies show that large-scale pre-training models can be effective for large datasets.
Approach: They propose a method of integrating contextual embeddings with commonsense graph embeddINGs by preprocessing knowledge bases and aligning tokens between misaligned tokenization methods.
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Enhancing Natural Language Representation with Large-Scale Out-of-Domain Commonsense (2022.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Using commonsense in text understanding tasks can cause catastrophic forgetting due to domain discrepancy . previous methods of using textual descriptions as extra input information cannot apply to large-scale commonsensing.
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Do Language Models Perform Generalizable Commonsense Inference? (2021.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Recent work has applied pretrained language models to populate commonsense knowledge graphs (CKGs) but there is a lack of understanding on their generalization to multiple CKGs, unseen relations, and novel entities.
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CoCoLM: Complex Commonsense Enhanced Language Model with Discourse Relations (2022.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large-scale pre-trained language models have demonstrated strong knowledge representation ability, but struggle with complex commonsense knowledge that involves multiple eventualities.
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