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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 107/10

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Using Probabilistic Programs to Train Inductive Reasoning in Large Language Models

Researchers introduce Program-based Posterior Training (PPT), a novel fine-tuning method that uses probabilistic programs to train LLMs on inductive reasoning tasks. By generating synthetic scenarios and using probabilistic inference to create distributional targets, the approach significantly improves model accuracy on uncertainty estimation while better aligning with human judgment.

AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 27/10

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InPhyRe Discovers: Large Multimodal Models Struggle in Inductive Physical Reasoning

Researchers introduced InPhyRe, a new benchmark showing that large multimodal models (LMMs) struggle with inductive physical reasoning—their ability to apply learned physical laws to novel, unseen scenarios. Testing 13 LMMs revealed critical weaknesses: models fail to generalize parametric knowledge, perform poorly with unseen physical laws, and exhibit language bias that causes them to ignore visual inputs, raising concerns about their reliability for safety-critical applications.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 46/10

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FALSIFYBENCH: Evaluating Inductive Reasoning in LLMs with Rule Discovery Games

Researchers introduce FALSIFYBENCH, an evaluation framework that tests whether large language models can perform inductive reasoning through hypothesis-driven discovery tasks. Testing 12 LLMs reveals that reasoning models outperform instruction-tuned models, with success primarily driven by the ability to actively falsify hypotheses rather than confirm them.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 26/10

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Hypothesis Generation and Inductive Inference in Children and Language Models

Researchers compared how human children and large language models approach inductive reasoning tasks under uncertainty, finding both similarities and critical differences in their information-seeking strategies. While LLMs replicate children's adaptive responses to environmental structure, they exhibit distinct biases toward over-observation and instruction compliance, suggesting fundamentally different underlying computational principles govern their decision-making.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 116/10

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HYPER: A Foundation Model for Inductive Link Prediction with Knowledge Hypergraphs

Researchers introduce HYPER, a foundation model for predicting missing connections in knowledge hypergraphs that can generalize to novel entities and relation types unseen during training. The model advances inductive link prediction by encoding entity positions within hyperedges, enabling transfer learning across relations of varying complexity, with evaluation on 16 new datasets showing consistent outperformance of existing methods.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Apr 146/10

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A Survey of Inductive Reasoning for Large Language Models

Researchers present the first comprehensive survey of inductive reasoning in large language models, categorizing improvement methods into post-training, test-time scaling, and data augmentation approaches. The survey establishes unified benchmarks and evaluation metrics for assessing how LLMs perform particular-to-general reasoning tasks that better align with human cognition.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Mar 276/10

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Do Language Models Follow Occam's Razor? An Evaluation of Parsimony in Inductive and Abductive Reasoning

Researchers evaluated whether large language models follow Occam's Razor principle when performing inductive and abductive reasoning, finding that while LLMs can handle simple scenarios, they struggle with complex world models and producing high-quality, simplified hypotheses. The study introduces a new framework for generating reasoning questions and an automated metric to assess hypothesis quality based on correctness and simplicity.