AICLApr 28, 2024

Logic Agent: Enhancing Validity with Logic Rule Invocation

ByteDance
arXiv:2404.18130v25 citationsh-index: 20
Originality Incremental advance
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This addresses a specific bottleneck in reasoning for language model users, but it is incremental as it builds on existing CoT techniques.

The paper tackles the problem of validating reasoning validity and ensuring informativeness in Chain-of-Thought prompting for language models by introducing the Logic Agent framework, which uses logic rule invocation to improve precision in complex reasoning tasks.

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has emerged as a pivotal technique for augmenting the inferential capabilities of language models during reasoning tasks. Despite its advancements, CoT often grapples with challenges in validating reasoning validity and ensuring informativeness. Addressing these limitations, this paper introduces the Logic Agent (LA), an agent-based framework aimed at enhancing the validity of reasoning processes in Large Language Models (LLMs) through strategic logic rule invocation. Unlike conventional approaches, LA transforms LLMs into logic agents that dynamically apply propositional logic rules, initiating the reasoning process by converting natural language inputs into structured logic forms. The logic agent leverages a comprehensive set of predefined functions to systematically navigate the reasoning process. This methodology not only promotes the structured and coherent generation of reasoning constructs but also significantly improves their interpretability and logical coherence. Through extensive experimentation, we demonstrate LA's capacity to scale effectively across various model sizes, markedly improving the precision of complex reasoning across diverse tasks.

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