Towards a Universal Causal Reasoner
Despite the importance of causal reasoning, training LLMs to reason causally remains underexplored. Existing data efforts mostly focus on benchmarking LLMs on specific aspects of causality, making them less suitable for training generalizable causal reasoners. To address this, we propose UniCo, a data generation framework that both (1) addresses 18 causal query types across Pearl's Causal Ladder and (2) translates natively symbolic examples into code and natural language forms to simulate real-world use cases where causal terms are not explicitly specified. To ensure data quality, UniCo grounds answers with exact causal inference and filters cases with reasoning shortcuts. Upon supervised...
| Authors | Qirun Dai, Xiao Liu, Jiawei Zhang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 24 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 24 May 2026 |
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