Papers with high-level reasoning tasks
What’s Missing in Vision-Language Models? Probing Their Struggles with Causal Order Reasoning (2026.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks often include a mixture of reasoning questions, making it difficult to truly assess VLMs’ causal reasoning abilities. |
| Approach: | They propose two new benchmarks specifically designed to isolate and rigorously evaluate VLMs’ causal reasoning abilities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks show that vision-language models perform poorly on causal reasoning tasks, often only marginally surpassing random guessing. |
Prediction-Augmented Generation for Automatic Diagnosis Tasks (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) adopt autoregressive architecture, predicting the next word token based on the preceding context. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that integrates task-specific predictive models as external tools to improve model generation quality and accuracy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the generation quality and predictive accuracy of large language models in inference-driven tasks. |