Poster
Mars: Situated Inductive Reasoning in an Open-World Environment
Xiaojuan Tang · Jiaqi Li · Yitao Liang · Song-Chun Zhu · Muhan Zhang · Zilong Zheng
East Exhibit Hall A-C #2710
Large Language Models ( LLMs) trained on massive corpora have shown remarkable success in knowledge-intensive tasks. Yet, most of them rely on pre-stored knowledge. Inducing new general knowledge from a specific environment and performing reasoning with the acquired knowledge---\textit{situated inductive reasoning}, is crucial and challenging for machine intelligence. Imagine a scenario: in the United States, you drive on the right side of the road. When you travel to the UK, you might initially find it strange how people drive. However, you soon realize that driving on the left is the norm here and adapt yourself to the new rule. In this paper, we design Mars, an interactive environment devised for situated inductive reasoning. It introduces counter-commonsense game mechanisms by modifying terrain, survival setting and task dependency while adhering to certain principles. In Mars, agents need to actively interact with their surroundings, derive useful rules and perform decision-making tasks in specific contexts. We conduct experiments on various RL-based and LLM-based methods, finding that they all struggle on this challenging situated inductive reasoning benchmark. Furthermore, we explore \textit{Induction from Reflection}, where we instruct agents to perform inductive reasoning from history trajectory. The superior performance underscores the importance of inductive reasoning in Mars. Through Mars, we aim to galvanize advancements in situated inductive reasoning and set the stage for developing the next generation of AI systems that can reason in an adaptive and context-sensitive way.
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