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Same Formulas, Different Semantics: Do Language Models Follow Modal Logic Specifications?
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers tested whether language models follow modal logic specifications correctly, finding most fail basic tests unless reasoning mode is enabled.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building systems that need to reason about necessity, possibility, and logical constraints under different formal frameworks.
- Watch out
- Models perform inconsistently across inference modes and may follow familiar logics rather than stated specifications, even with identical premises.
- language model
- reasoning
- inference
- eval
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