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CoRE: Condition-based Reasoning for Identifying Outcome Variance in Complex Events

arXiv 2506.01253 ↗First posted 2 Jun 2025cs.CLcited by 1

On the map: LLM reasoning → Causal reasoning in LLMs

Abstract (arXiv)

Knowing which latent conditions lead to a particular outcome is useful for critically examining claims made about complex event outcomes. Identifying implied conditions and examining their influence on an outcome is challenging. We handle this by combining and augmenting annotations from two existing datasets consisting of goals and states, and explore the influence of conditions through our research questions and Condition-based Reasoning tasks. We examine open and closed LLMs of varying sizes and intent-alignment on our reasoning tasks and find that conditions are useful when not all context is available. Models differ widely in their ability to generate and identify outcome-variant conditions which affects their performance on outcome validation when conditions are used to replace missing context. Larger models like GPT-4o, are more cautious in such less constrained situations.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Causal reasoning in LLMs, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 2 of its 43 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 2 Jun 2025.

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