| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have made significant advances in event reasoning . however, smaller instruction-tuned models do not consistently demonstrate exceptional proficiency . |
| Approach: | They propose an event-oriented instruction tuning technique to train a large language model . they propose a structure named event quadruple which contains the structure and semantics of events . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves competitive performances on event reasoning tasks. |
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