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Multi-Granularity Reasoning for Natural Language Inference

arXiv:2606. 05181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural Language Inference (NLI) is a fundamental task in natural language understanding that requires determining the logical relationship between a premise and a hypothesis.

arXiv AI
Sep 3

DocHop: Benchmarking Out-of-domain Multi-hop Reasoning in Information-Dense Documents

DocHop is a new benchmark that tests multimodal large language models on integrated chart‑context reasoning within document‑style images. The benchmark presents narrative text that imposes multi‑step compositional constraints, while charts supply the data needed to answer questions grounded in semantic reference labels. It contains 2,074 examples across six task categories, generated via a stochastic logic‑first pipeline that controls reasoning depth and visual density, and shows a large performance gap between humans (over 90% accuracy) and the best models (62.83%).

By Zhuoran Yu, Le Thien Phuc Nguyen, Jaden Park, Xinyi Gu, Zexue He, Soochahn Lee, Rogerio Feris, Yong Jae Lee
arXiv AI
Jun 16

HoloRec: Holistic Encoding and Interleaved Reasoning for Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2606. 15331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative recommendation models that formulate the task as sequence generation overcome the objective fragmentation problem of traditional cascade architectures, yet existing approaches still suffer from flat semantic representations lacking hierarchical structure for multi-step reasoning and an externally constructed chain-of-thought (CoT) that requires expensive annotations and remains disconnected from the generation objective.

By Shuqi Zhao, Jingsong Su, Xiang Liu, Xingzhi Yao, Yiming Qiu, Huimu Wang, Liang Lin, Pengbo Mo, Mingming Li, Jiao Dai, Jizhong Han, Songlin Hu
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 24

Granuscore: A Reference-Free Measure of Granularity for Text Analysis and Question Answering

Granuscore is a reference‑free metric that measures the granularity of text by exploiting the structure of a hierarchical embedding space. It successfully reproduces known hierarchical orderings on the Granola‑EQ dataset, distinguishes granularity across different discourse contexts, and explains sentence‑specificity variations beyond sentence length. The authors also apply Granuscore to four question‑answering benchmarks, revealing systematic differences in granularity among questions, gold answers, and model outputs, thereby offering a new lens for assessing QA dataset difficulty.

By Lukas Ellinger, Alexander Fichtl, Miriam Ansch\"utz, Georg Groh
arXiv AI
Jul 15

CANDI: Contextual Alignment for Niche Domains Question Answering

arXiv:2607. 11891v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The deployment of large language models (LLMs) in specialized domains like medical diagnostics and financial advisory necessitates evaluating capabilities beyond general knowledge.

By Megha Chakraborty, Darssan L. Eswaramoorthi, Het Riteshkumar Shah, Madhur Thareja, Michelle A Ihetu, Harshul Raj Surana, Kaushik Roy, Amit Sheth
arXiv AI
Aug 25

A Modular Multitask Reasoning Framework Integrating Spatio-temporal Models and LLMs

The paper introduces STReason, a modular multitask reasoning framework that combines large language models with spatio‑temporal models to handle complex natural language queries without task‑specific fine‑tuning. STReason decomposes queries into interpretable programs, executes them to produce numerical results and detailed, computation‑grounded explanations, thereby reducing hallucinations. The authors evaluate the system on a new benchmark and show it outperforms advanced LLM baselines, with human studies confirming its credibility and practical utility.

By Kethmi Hirushini Hettige, Jiahao Ji, Cheng Long, Shili Xiang, Gao Cong, Jingyuan Wang