Unseentimeqa: Time-sensitive Question-answering Beyond Llms' Memorization

Uddin Md Nayem, Saeidi Amir, Handa Divij, Seth Agastya, Son Tran Cao, Blanco Eduardo, Corman Steven R., Baral Chitta. Arxiv 2024

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Reinforcement Learning Training Techniques

This paper introduces UnSeenTimeQA, a novel time-sensitive question-answering (TSQA) benchmark that diverges from traditional TSQA benchmarks by avoiding factual and web-searchable queries. We present a series of time-sensitive event scenarios decoupled from real-world factual information. It requires large language models (LLMs) to engage in genuine temporal reasoning, disassociating from the knowledge acquired during the pre-training phase. Our evaluation of six open-source LLMs (ranging from 2B to 70B in size) and three closed-source LLMs reveal that the questions from the UnSeenTimeQA present substantial challenges. This indicates the models’ difficulties in handling complex temporal reasoning scenarios. Additionally, we present several analyses shedding light on the models’ performance in answering time-sensitive questions.

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