Team NP_PROBLEM at SemEval-2024 Task 7: Numerical Reasoning in Headline Generation with Preference Optimization

Pawan Rajpoot, Nut Chukamphaeng


Abstract
While large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive linguistic abilities, their numerical reasoning skills within real-world contexts re- main under-explored. This paper describes our participation in a headline-generation challenge by Numeval at Semeval 2024, which focused on numerical reasoning. Our system achieved an overall top numerical accuracy of 73.49% on the task. We explore the system’s design choices contributing to this result and analyze common error patterns. Our findings highlight the potential and ongoing challenges of integrat- ing numerical reasoning within large language model-based headline generation.
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2024.semeval-1.103
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Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)
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June
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2024
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Giovanni Da San Martino, Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pawan Rajpoot and Nut Chukamphaeng. 2024. Team NP_PROBLEM at SemEval-2024 Task 7: Numerical Reasoning in Headline Generation with Preference Optimization. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), pages 716–720, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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