Papers with numerical understanding
Logical Inference for Counting on Semi-structured Tables (2022.acl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Natural Language Inference (NLI) tasks require numerical understanding to perform a numerical type of inference, such as counting. |
| Approach: | They propose a logical inference system for reasoning between semi-structured tables and texts that uses logical representations as meaning representations and model checking to handle a numerical type of inference. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can perform inference with numerical comparatives with tables and texts in English. |
Investigating Numeracy Learning Ability of a Text-to-Text Transfer Model (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing pre-trained models fail to capture a better understanding of numbers. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a text-to-text transfer learning model (T5) to learn numeracy in four numeration tasks. |
| Outcome: | The model outperforms its predecessors in four numeracy tasks, but struggle in extrapolation setting. |
How Robust Are Large Language Models for Clinical Numeracy? An Empirical Study on Numerical Reasoning Abilities in Clinical Contexts (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing evaluations of Large Language Models for clinical numerical reasoning provide limited operation-level coverage and limited robustness of numerical understanding across clinical note formats. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmarking tool that evaluates four main types of clinical numeracy . they present longitudinal MIMIC-IV vital-sign records in three semantically equivalent representations . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark evaluates four main types of clinical numeracy: value retrieval, arithmetic computation, relational comparison, and aggregation. |