Enhancing Event Reasoning in Large Language Models through Instruction Fine-Tuning with Semantic Causal Graphs

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Autori principali: Bethany, Mazal, Bethany, Emet, Wherry, Brandon, Chiang, Cho-Yu, Vishwamitra, Nishant, Rios, Anthony, Najafirad, Peyman
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author Bethany, Mazal
Bethany, Emet
Wherry, Brandon
Chiang, Cho-Yu
Vishwamitra, Nishant
Rios, Anthony
Najafirad, Peyman
author_facet Bethany, Mazal
Bethany, Emet
Wherry, Brandon
Chiang, Cho-Yu
Vishwamitra, Nishant
Rios, Anthony
Najafirad, Peyman
contents Event detection and text reasoning have become critical applications across various domains. While LLMs have recently demonstrated impressive progress in reasoning abilities, they often struggle with event detection, particularly due to the absence of training methods that consider causal relationships between event triggers and types. To address this challenge, we propose a novel approach for instruction fine-tuning LLMs for event detection. Our method introduces Semantic Causal Graphs (SCGs) to capture both causal relationships and contextual information within text. Building off of SCGs, we propose SCG Instructions for fine-tuning LLMs by focusing on event triggers and their relationships to event types, and employ Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) to help preserve the general reasoning abilities of LLMs. Our evaluations demonstrate that training LLMs with SCG Instructions outperforms standard instruction fine-tuning by an average of 35.69\% on Event Trigger Classification. Notably, our fine-tuned Mistral 7B model also outperforms GPT-4 on key event detection metrics by an average of 31.01\% on Event Trigger Identification, 37.40\% on Event Trigger Classification, and 16.43\% on Event Classification. We analyze the retention of general capabilities, observing only a minimal average drop of 2.03 points across six benchmarks. This comprehensive study investigates multiple LLMs for the event detection task across various datasets, prompting strategies, and training approaches.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Event Reasoning in Large Language Models through Instruction Fine-Tuning with Semantic Causal Graphs
Bethany, Mazal
Bethany, Emet
Wherry, Brandon
Chiang, Cho-Yu
Vishwamitra, Nishant
Rios, Anthony
Najafirad, Peyman
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Event detection and text reasoning have become critical applications across various domains. While LLMs have recently demonstrated impressive progress in reasoning abilities, they often struggle with event detection, particularly due to the absence of training methods that consider causal relationships between event triggers and types. To address this challenge, we propose a novel approach for instruction fine-tuning LLMs for event detection. Our method introduces Semantic Causal Graphs (SCGs) to capture both causal relationships and contextual information within text. Building off of SCGs, we propose SCG Instructions for fine-tuning LLMs by focusing on event triggers and their relationships to event types, and employ Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) to help preserve the general reasoning abilities of LLMs. Our evaluations demonstrate that training LLMs with SCG Instructions outperforms standard instruction fine-tuning by an average of 35.69\% on Event Trigger Classification. Notably, our fine-tuned Mistral 7B model also outperforms GPT-4 on key event detection metrics by an average of 31.01\% on Event Trigger Identification, 37.40\% on Event Trigger Classification, and 16.43\% on Event Classification. We analyze the retention of general capabilities, observing only a minimal average drop of 2.03 points across six benchmarks. This comprehensive study investigates multiple LLMs for the event detection task across various datasets, prompting strategies, and training approaches.
title Enhancing Event Reasoning in Large Language Models through Instruction Fine-Tuning with Semantic Causal Graphs
topic Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00209