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View SchemaAtomic-SNLI: Fine-Grained Natural Language Inference through Atomic Fact Decomposition
| Authors | Minghui Huang |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.06528vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06528 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Abstract
Current Natural Language Inference (NLI) systems primarily operate at the sentence level, providing black-box decisions that lack explanatory power. While atomic-level NLI offers a promising alternative by decomposing hypotheses into individual facts, we demonstrate that the conventional assumption that a hypothesis is entailed only when all its atomic facts are entailed fails in practice due to models' poor performance on fine-grained reasoning. Our analysis reveals that existing models perform substantially worse on atomic level inference compared to sentence level tasks. To address this limitation, we introduce Atomic-SNLI, a novel dataset constructed by decomposing SNLI and enriching it with carefully curated atomic level examples through linguistically informed generation strategies. Experimental results demonstrate that models fine-tuned on Atomic-SNLI achieve significant improvements in atomic reasoning capabilities while maintaining strong sentence level performance, enabling both accurate judgements and transparent, explainable results at the fact level.
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