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While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting boosts Language Models’ (LM) performance on a gamut of complex reasoning tasks, the generated reasoning chain does not necessarily reflect how the model arrives at the answer (aka. faithfulness). We propose Faithful CoT, a reasoning framework involving two stages: Translation (Natural Language query → symbolic reasoning chain) and Problem Solving (reasoning chain → answer), using an LM and a deterministic solver respectively. This guarantees that the reasoning chain provides a faithful explanation of the final answer. Aside from interpretability, Faithful CoT also improves empirical performance: it outperforms standard CoT on 9 of 10 benchmarks from 4 diverse domains, with a relative accuracy gain of 6.3% on Math Word Problems (MWP), 3.4% on Planning, 5.5% on Multi-hop Question Answering (QA), and 21.4% on Relational Inference. Furthermore, with GPT-4 and Codex, it sets the new state-of-the-art few-shot performance on 7 datasets (with 95.0+ accuracy on 6 of them), showing a strong synergy between faithfulness and accuracy.
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Requirements Satisfiability with In-Context Learning
Language models that can learn a task at inference time, called in-context learning (ICL), show increasing promise in natural language inference tasks. In ICL, a model user constructs a prompt to describe a task with a natural language instruction and zero or more examples, called demonstrations. The prompt is then input to the language model to generate a completion. In this paper, we apply ICL to the design and evaluation of satisfaction arguments, which describe how a requirement is satisfied by a system specification and associated domain knowledge. The approach builds on three prompt design patterns, including augmented generation, prompt tuning, and chain-of-thought prompting, and is evaluated on a privacy problem to check whether a mobile app scenario and associated design description satisfies eight consent requirements from the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The overall results show that GPT-4 can be used to verify requirements satisfaction with 96.7% accuracy and dissatisfaction with 93.2% accuracy. Inverting the requirement improves verification of dissatisfaction to 97.2%. Chain-of-thought prompting improves overall GPT-3.5 performance by 9.0% accuracy. We discuss the trade-offs among templates, models and prompt strategies and provide a detailed analysis of the generated specifications to inform how the approach can be applied in practice.
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- PAR ID:
- 10561323
- Publisher / Repository:
- IEEE
- Date Published:
- ISBN:
- 979-8-3503-9511-2
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 168 to 179
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Reykjavik, Iceland
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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