Papers with LogiQA
LogiGraph: Logical Reasoning with Contrastive Learning and Lightweight Graph Networks (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods emphasize contextual semantics while others pay more attention to explicit logical features. Existing models utilize graph convolutional networks (GCN) for node updates, still exhibiting some shortcomings. |
| Approach: | They propose a logical reasoning method with contrastive learning and lightweight graph networks (LogiGraph) they employ conjunction and punctuation marks as two types of edges to construct a dual graph. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the GCN and employs conjunction and punctuation marks as two types of edges to construct a dual graph. |
Modeling Hierarchical Reasoning Chains by Linking Discourse Units and Key Phrases for Reading Comprehension (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods of logical reasoning focus on entity-aware information but ignore hierarchical relations that may even have mutual effects. |
| Approach: | They propose a holistic graph network that deals with context at both discourse-level and word-level as the basis for logical reasoning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on logical reasoning QA datasets and natural language inference datasets. |
Beta-LR: Interpretable Logical Reasoning based on Beta Distribution (2024.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to capture logical information from text are limited by the uncertainty of the text. |
| Approach: | They propose a probabilistic embedding method to capture logical information from text . they embed texts into beta distributions on each dimension to eliminate logical uncertainty . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves competitive performances on two datasets. |
Logic-Driven Context Extension and Data Augmentation for Logical Reasoning of Text (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for logical reasoning of text focus on contextual semantics while struggling to explicitly model the logical inference process. |
| Approach: | They propose a logic-driven context extension framework and a data-driven augmentation algorithm that uses contrastive learning to better capture logical information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods on two benchmark datasets, ReClor and LogiQA. |
Prompt-Level Distillation: A Non-Parametric Alternative to Model Fine-Tuning for Efficient Reasoning (2026.acl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Advanced reasoning typically requires Chain-of-Thought prompting, which is accurate but incurs prohibitive latency and substantial test-time inference costs. |
| Approach: | They propose to extract explicit reasoning patterns from a Teacher model and organize them into a structured list of expressive instructions for the Student model’s System Prompt. |
| Outcome: | Evaluated using Gemma-3 4B, the proposed model improves Macro F1 scores on StereoSet and Contract-NLI while increasing LogiQA accuracy to 70%. |
The Art of SOCRATIC QUESTIONING: Recursive Thinking with Large Language Models (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting relies on the initial decisions, causing errors in early steps to accumulate and impact the final answers. |
| Approach: | They propose a divide-and-conquer style algorithm that leverages large language models to raise and answer sub-questions until collecting enough information to tackle the original one. |
| Outcome: | The proposed algorithm is more robust to errors and errors than CoT prompting and Tree-of-Thought prompting methods. |
MERIt: Meta-Path Guided Contrastive Learning for Logical Reasoning (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to infer logical relations with annotated training data suffer from over-fitting and poor generalization problems due to the dataset sparsity. |
| Approach: | They propose a MEta-path guided contrastive learning method for logical ReasonIng of text that performs self-supervised pre-training on abundant unlabeled text data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the baselines on two logical reasoning benchmarks with significant improvements. |
APOLLO: A Simple Approach for Adaptive Pretraining of Language Models for Logical Reasoning (2023.acl-long)
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Soumya Sanyal, Yichong Xu, Shuohang Wang, Ziyi Yang, Reid Pryzant, Wenhao Yu, Chenguang Zhu, Xiang Ren
| Challenge: | Existing methods to improve logical reasoning skills require complex data processing. |
| Approach: | They propose an adaptive pretraining approach to improve logical reasoning over text . they use a subset of Wikipedia sentences for pretraining and a sentence-level classification loss . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baselines on LogiQA and ReClor. |
DAGN: Discourse-Aware Graph Network for Logical Reasoning (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent QA with logical reasoning questions requires passage-level relations among the sentences. |
| Approach: | They propose a discourse-aware graph network that aggregates passage-level clues for QA by using discourse-based information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves competitive results on two logical reasoning QA datasets. |
AdaLoGN: Adaptive Logic Graph Network for Reasoning-Based Machine Reading Comprehension (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods and limitations for machine reading comprehension are insufficient for logical reasoning over text. |
| Approach: | They propose a neural-symbolic approach which passes messages over a graph representing logical relations between text units to predict an answer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing methods on ReClor and LogiQA. |
IDOL: Indicator-oriented Logic Pre-training for Logical Reasoning (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing systems for logical reasoning have surpassed the average performance of humans in many tasks like SQuAD but there is still a long way to go when it comes to logical reasoning. |
| Approach: | They propose an InDicator-Oriented Logic Pre-training task which logically strengthens pre-trained models with the help of 6 types of logical indicators and a logicalally rich dataset. |
| Outcome: | The proposed task achieves state-of-the-art on ReClor and LogiQA, the two most representative benchmarks in logical reasoning MRC. |
DetermLR: Augmenting LLM-based Logical Reasoning from Indeterminacy to Determinacy (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the landscape of reasoning tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a new approach that rethinks the reasoning process as an evolution from indeterminacy to determinacy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model surpasses all baselines on various logical reasoning benchmarks. |