ICML Paper Reveals Salience Bias in LLMs

An ICML paper reveals that LLMs suffer from a severe "salience bias" in commonsense reasoning. Even the most advanced models are easily misled by prominent but irrelevant numerical details, causing them to ignore implicit physical constraints and fail the tasks.

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