TY - GEN
T1 - ELASTIC
T2 - 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022
AU - Zhang, Jiaxin
AU - Moshfeghi, Yashar
PY - 2022/12/9
Y1 - 2022/12/9
N2 - Numerical reasoning over text is a challenging task of Artificial Intelligence (AI), requiring reading comprehension and numerical reasoning abilities. Previous approaches use numerical reasoning programs to represent the reasoning process. However, most works do not separate the generation of operators and operands, which are key components of a numerical reasoning program, thus limiting their ability to generate such programs for complicated tasks. In this paper, we introduce the numEricaL reASoning with adapTive symbolIc Compiler (ELASTIC) model, which is constituted of the RoBERTa as the Encoder and a Compiler with four modules: Reasoning Manager, Operator Generator, Operands Generator, and Memory Register. ELASTIC is robust when conducting complicated reasoning. Also, it is domain agnostic by supporting the expansion of diverse operators without caring about the number of operands it contains. Experiments show that ELASTIC achieves 68.96 and 65.21 of execution accuracy and program accuracy on the FinQA dataset and 83.00 program accuracy on the MathQA dataset, outperforming previous state-of-the-art models significantly
AB - Numerical reasoning over text is a challenging task of Artificial Intelligence (AI), requiring reading comprehension and numerical reasoning abilities. Previous approaches use numerical reasoning programs to represent the reasoning process. However, most works do not separate the generation of operators and operands, which are key components of a numerical reasoning program, thus limiting their ability to generate such programs for complicated tasks. In this paper, we introduce the numEricaL reASoning with adapTive symbolIc Compiler (ELASTIC) model, which is constituted of the RoBERTa as the Encoder and a Compiler with four modules: Reasoning Manager, Operator Generator, Operands Generator, and Memory Register. ELASTIC is robust when conducting complicated reasoning. Also, it is domain agnostic by supporting the expansion of diverse operators without caring about the number of operands it contains. Experiments show that ELASTIC achieves 68.96 and 65.21 of execution accuracy and program accuracy on the FinQA dataset and 83.00 program accuracy on the MathQA dataset, outperforming previous state-of-the-art models significantly
KW - numerical reasoning
KW - artificial intelligence (AI)
KW - ELASTIC model
UR - https://github.com/NeuraSearch/NeurIPS-2022-Submission-3358
UR - https://www.proceedings.com/68431.html
UR - https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2022/hash/522ef98b1e52f5918e5abc868651175d-Abstract-Conference.html
M3 - Conference contribution book
AN - SCOPUS:85162760667
SN - 9781713871088
BT - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35
CY - Red Hook, NY
Y2 - 28 November 2022 through 9 December 2022
ER -