Test of Time: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Temporal Reasoning

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Autori principali: Fatemi, Bahare, Kazemi, Mehran, Tsitsulin, Anton, Malkan, Karishma, Yim, Jinyeong, Palowitch, John, Seo, Sungyong, Halcrow, Jonathan, Perozzi, Bryan
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author Fatemi, Bahare
Kazemi, Mehran
Tsitsulin, Anton
Malkan, Karishma
Yim, Jinyeong
Palowitch, John
Seo, Sungyong
Halcrow, Jonathan
Perozzi, Bryan
author_facet Fatemi, Bahare
Kazemi, Mehran
Tsitsulin, Anton
Malkan, Karishma
Yim, Jinyeong
Palowitch, John
Seo, Sungyong
Halcrow, Jonathan
Perozzi, Bryan
contents Large language models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable reasoning capabilities, yet they remain susceptible to errors, particularly in temporal reasoning tasks involving complex temporal logic. Existing research has explored LLM performance on temporal reasoning using diverse datasets and benchmarks. However, these studies often rely on real-world data that LLMs may have encountered during pre-training or employ anonymization techniques that can inadvertently introduce factual inconsistencies. In this work, we address these limitations by introducing novel synthetic datasets specifically designed to assess LLM temporal reasoning abilities in various scenarios. The diversity of question types across these datasets enables systematic investigation into the impact of the problem structure, size, question type, fact order, and other factors on LLM performance. Our findings provide valuable insights into the strengths and weaknesses of current LLMs in temporal reasoning tasks. To foster further research in this area, we are open-sourcing the datasets and evaluation framework used in our experiments: https://huggingface.co/datasets/baharef/ToT.
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spellingShingle Test of Time: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Temporal Reasoning
Fatemi, Bahare
Kazemi, Mehran
Tsitsulin, Anton
Malkan, Karishma
Yim, Jinyeong
Palowitch, John
Seo, Sungyong
Halcrow, Jonathan
Perozzi, Bryan
Computation and Language
Large language models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable reasoning capabilities, yet they remain susceptible to errors, particularly in temporal reasoning tasks involving complex temporal logic. Existing research has explored LLM performance on temporal reasoning using diverse datasets and benchmarks. However, these studies often rely on real-world data that LLMs may have encountered during pre-training or employ anonymization techniques that can inadvertently introduce factual inconsistencies. In this work, we address these limitations by introducing novel synthetic datasets specifically designed to assess LLM temporal reasoning abilities in various scenarios. The diversity of question types across these datasets enables systematic investigation into the impact of the problem structure, size, question type, fact order, and other factors on LLM performance. Our findings provide valuable insights into the strengths and weaknesses of current LLMs in temporal reasoning tasks. To foster further research in this area, we are open-sourcing the datasets and evaluation framework used in our experiments: https://huggingface.co/datasets/baharef/ToT.
title Test of Time: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Temporal Reasoning
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09170