What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs?
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| author | Sadallah, Abdelrahman Kotova, Daria Kochmar, Ekaterina |
| author_facet | Sadallah, Abdelrahman Kotova, Daria Kochmar, Ekaterina |
| contents | Cryptic crosswords are puzzles that rely on general knowledge and the solver's ability to manipulate language on different levels, dealing with various types of wordplay. Previous research suggests that solving such puzzles is challenging even for modern NLP models, including Large Language Models (LLMs). However, there is little to no research on the reasons for their poor performance on this task. In this paper, we establish the benchmark results for three popular LLMs: Gemma2, LLaMA3 and ChatGPT, showing that their performance on this task is still significantly below that of humans. We also investigate why these models struggle to achieve superior performance. We release our code and introduced datasets at https://github.com/bodasadallah/decrypting-crosswords. |
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| spellingShingle | What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Sadallah, Abdelrahman Kotova, Daria Kochmar, Ekaterina Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Cryptic crosswords are puzzles that rely on general knowledge and the solver's ability to manipulate language on different levels, dealing with various types of wordplay. Previous research suggests that solving such puzzles is challenging even for modern NLP models, including Large Language Models (LLMs). However, there is little to no research on the reasons for their poor performance on this task. In this paper, we establish the benchmark results for three popular LLMs: Gemma2, LLaMA3 and ChatGPT, showing that their performance on this task is still significantly below that of humans. We also investigate why these models struggle to achieve superior performance. We release our code and introduced datasets at https://github.com/bodasadallah/decrypting-crosswords. |
| title | What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09012 |