Transformers In The Service Of Description Logic-based Contexts

Poulis Angelos, Tsalapati Eleni, Koubarakis Manolis. Arxiv 2023

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BERT Few Shot GPT In Context Learning Model Architecture Pretraining Methods Prompting RAG Transformer

Recent advancements in transformer-based models have initiated research interests in investigating their ability to learn to perform reasoning tasks. However, most of the contexts used for this purpose are in practice very simple: generated from short (fragments of) first-order logic sentences with only a few logical operators and quantifiers. In this work, we construct the natural language dataset, DELTA\(_D\), using the description logic language \(\mathcal{ALCQ}\). DELTA\(_D\) contains 384K examples, and increases in two dimensions: i) reasoning depth, and ii) linguistic complexity. In this way, we systematically investigate the reasoning ability of a supervised fine-tuned DeBERTa-based model and of two large language models (GPT-3.5, GPT-4) with few-shot prompting. Our results demonstrate that the DeBERTa-based model can master the reasoning task and that the performance of GPTs can improve significantly even when a small number of samples is provided (9 shots). We open-source our code and datasets.

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