Automatic Knowledge Augmentation for Generative Commonsense Reasoning
This addresses the challenge of insufficient training data for generative commonsense reasoning, offering a model-agnostic solution that reduces human effort in data construction.
The paper tackles the problem of generative commonsense reasoning in language models by proposing an automatic knowledge augmentation method to generate semi-golden sentences, which improves model performance without architectural changes.
Generative commonsense reasoning is the capability of a language model to generate a sentence with a given concept-set that is based on commonsense knowledge. However, generative language models still struggle to provide outputs, and the training set does not contain patterns that are sufficient for generative commonsense reasoning. In this paper, we propose a data-centric method that uses automatic knowledge augmentation to extend commonsense knowledge using a machine knowledge generator. This method can generate semi-golden sentences that improve the generative commonsense reasoning of a language model without architecture modifications. Furthermore, this approach is a model-agnostic method and does not require human effort for data construction.