학술논문

CommonsenseVIS: Visualizing and Understanding Commonsense Reasoning Capabilities of Natural Language Models
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on. 30(1):273-283 Jan, 2024
Subject
Computing and Processing
Bioengineering
Signal Processing and Analysis
Commonsense reasoning
Context modeling
Analytical models
Natural language processing
Benchmark testing
Task analysis
Data models
visual analytics
XAI
natural language processing
Language
ISSN
1077-2626
1941-0506
2160-9306
Abstract
Recently, large pretrained language models have achieved compelling performance on commonsense benchmarks. Nevertheless, it is unclear what commonsense knowledge the models learn and whether they solely exploit spurious patterns. Feature attributions are popular explainability techniques that identify important input concepts for model outputs. However, commonsense knowledge tends to be implicit and rarely explicitly presented in inputs. These methods cannot infer models' implicit reasoning over mentioned concepts. We present CommonsenseVIS , a visual explanatory system that utilizes external commonsense knowledge bases to contextualize model behavior for commonsense question-answering. Specifically, we extract relevant commonsense knowledge in inputs as references to align model behavior with human knowledge. Our system features multi-level visualization and interactive model probing and editing for different concepts and their underlying relations. Through a user study, we show that CommonsenseVIS helps NLP experts conduct a systematic and scalable visual analysis of models' relational reasoning over concepts in different situations.