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Roscoe: A Suite of Metrics for Scoring Step-by-Step Reasoning (Meta) (arxiv.org)
1 point by georgehill on Dec 17, 2022 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A set of automatic scores judges whether a model's step-by-step reasoning actually supports its answer, checking things like logic, relevance, and truthfulness instead of just the final answer. On human-graded and deliberately broken reasoning examples, it beat the usual text-similarity scores.

Abstract · ROSCOE: A Suite of Metrics for Scoring Step-by-Step Reasoning

Large language models show improved downstream task performance when prompted to generate step-by-step reasoning to justify their final answers. These reasoning steps greatly improve model interpretability and verification, but objectively studying their correctness (independent of the final answer) is difficult without reliable methods for automatic evaluation. We simply do not know how often the stated reasoning steps actually support the final end task predictions. In this work, we present ROSCOE, a suite of interpretable, unsupervised automatic scores that improve and extend previous text generation evaluation metrics. To evaluate ROSCOE against baseline metrics, we design a typology of reasoning errors and collect synthetic and human evaluation scores on commonly used reasoning datasets. In contrast with existing metrics, ROSCOE can measure semantic consistency, logicality, informativeness, fluency, and factuality - among other traits - by leveraging properties of step-by-step rationales. We empirically verify the strength of our metrics on five human annotated and six programmatically perturbed diagnostics datasets - covering a diverse set of tasks that require reasoning skills and show that ROSCOE can consistently outperform baseline metrics.

Olga Golovneva, Moya Chen, Spencer Poff, Martin Corredor, Luke Zettlemoyer, Maryam Fazel-Zarandi, Asli Celikyilmaz
arXiv:2212.07919 · cs.CL, cs.LG · submitted Dec 15, 2022 · updated Sep 12, 2023
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