Animal Cognition Principles Applied to LLM Evaluations: A Transitive Inference Case Study
tomssilver · x · 2026-09-21
Tom Silver's #PaperILike this week highlights "Principles of Animal Cognition for LLM Evaluations: A Case Study on Transitive Inference" (Rane et al., 2025). As part of his ongoing hunt for better ways to understand LLMs and agents, the paper borrows evaluation principles from animal cognition research and applies them to LLM reasoning, using transitive inference as the case study. PDF and write-up linked in the post.
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