How large an emergency fund do I need? Do I have enough time to grab lunch before my next meeting?
We intuitively solve questions like these every day. Renowned physicist Enrico Fermi had a particular knack for it — these questions have become well known as Fermi Problems.
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We intuitively solve questions like these every day. Renowned physicist Enrico Fermi had a particular knack for it — these questions have become well known as Fermi Problems.
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Solving Fermi Problems requires recursive decomposition, science/commonsense reasoning, abstraction, and creativity. The inherent complexity of these problems makes them an ideal candidate for #AI reasoning.
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To spur research in this direction, we created two datasets — realFP and synthFP, a collection of real-world and templated Fermi problems. We found that large-scale LMs perform poorly even after fine-tuning, making estimates that can be off by 2+ orders of magnitude.
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Find more details in our paper and the dataset here: allenai.org/data/fermi.
Finally, don’t miss Abhinav Kumar’s talk about this work if you are attending #EMNLP2021, starting at 12:45pm PT on Monday, November 8!
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Finally, don’t miss Abhinav Kumar’s talk about this work if you are attending #EMNLP2021, starting at 12:45pm PT on Monday, November 8!
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