arXiv AI By Zohreh Abbasi Liasi, Batoul Hammoud, Anas Madkoor, Ehsaneddin Asgari

Reasoning over Non-Parametric Memory in Multilingual LLMs: A Cognitive-Based Analysis of Relational Knowledge

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The paper introduces “Rel-Bloom,” a multilingual diagnostic benchmark of 450 multiple-choice questions that tests language models’ ability to reason over relational facts supplied directly in prompts. It evaluates 43 models across six languages and two multilingual settings, revealing that accuracy drops sharply from Apply to Analyze levels, that Evaluate items remain a bottleneck even for high-performing models, and that difficulty rankings are consistent across languages. The study also finds that counterfactual contexts are generally harder than factual ones, and that removing entity identities can sometimes improve higher-level performance.

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