Preprint
Jul 2026
Would You Walk to the Car Wash? Revealing the Salience Bias of Large Language Models in Commonsense Reasoning
The findings relocate the bottleneck of commonsense reasoning failures from model competence to elicitation, and release SaliTrap as a testbed for this blind spot, to show that lightweight, inference-time prompting alone substantially closes the gap without any retraining.
Zheng Wu, Chenhao Xue, Shijie Zheng et al.
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