3 papers
cs.CL2025
Reason to Rote: Rethinking Memorization in Reasoning
Yupei Du, Philipp Mondorf, Silvia Casola +3
Large language models readily memorize arbitrary training instances, such as label noise, yet they perform strikingly well on reasoning tasks. In this work, we investigate how lang…
cs.CL2025
On Support Samples of Next Word Prediction
Yuqian Li, Yupei Du, Yufang Liu +3
Language models excel in various tasks by making complex decisions, yet understanding the rationale behind these decisions remains a challenge. This paper investigates \emph{data-c…
cs.CL2025
Language models can learn implicit multi-hop reasoning, but only if they have lots of training data
Yuekun Yao, Yupei Du, Dawei Zhu +2
Implicit reasoning is the ability of a language model to solve multi-hop reasoning tasks in a single forward pass, without chain of thought. We investigate this capability using GP…