Papers by Mutsumi Nakamura

5 papers
How Can Input Reformulation Improve Tool Usage Accuracy in a Complex Dynamic Environment? A Study on tau-bench (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Recent advances in reasoning and planning capabilities of large language models have enabled their potential as autonomous agents capable of tool use in dynamic environments.
Approach: They propose an input-reformulation multi-agent framework that reformulates user queries .
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms ReAct, Function Calling, and Self-Reflection in overall pass5 scores.
Multi-LogiEval: Towards Evaluating Multi-Step Logical Reasoning Ability of Large Language Models (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing logical reasoning evaluation benchmarks focus on simplistic single-step or multi-step reasoning with limited set of inference rules.
Approach: They propose to use a multi-step logical reasoning evaluation dataset to measure their ability for human-like multi- step logical thinking.
Outcome: The proposed dataset covers three logic types including propositional, first-order, and non-monotonic logic with various inference rules and depths.
LogicBench: Towards Systematic Evaluation of Logical Reasoning Ability of Large Language Models (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing work investigating the logical reasoning ability of large language models has focused only on a couple of inference rules of propositional and first-order logics.
Approach: They propose to use a natural language question-answering dataset to evaluate the logical reasoning ability of large language models.
Outcome: The proposed model performs poorly on a range of natural language questions using chain-of-thought prompting.
LogicAttack: Adversarial Attacks for Evaluating Logical Consistency of Natural Language Inference (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on Natural Language Inference (NLI) tasks.
Approach: They propose a method to attack NLI models using diverse logical forms of premise and hypothesis using propositional logic to generate effective adversarial attacks.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves an average 53% Attack Success Rate (ASR) across multiple logic-based attacks.
Step-by-Step Reasoning to Solve Grid Puzzles: Where do LLMs Falter? (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing studies evaluate only the final predicted answer of a puzzle, without providing any finer metrics to evaluate them.
Approach: They propose to use a grid-based evaluation dataset to evaluate LLMs' reasoning abilities and a new error taxonomy to evaluate their reasoning chains.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing prompting methods on a wide range of natural language understanding tasks previously thought to be exclusive to humans.

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