用大模型量化人类推理中的信息流动,首次建立统一的推理动态描述框架。
The Universal Landscape of Human Reasoning
- 通过大模型追踪每步推理的信息熵与增益,实现精细化分析
- 在多种任务中捕捉系统性错误模式与个体差异特征
- 揭示人工与人类认知对齐机制,适合认知科学与AI交叉研究者
理解人类推理中信息如何动态积累与转化,长期困扰认知心理学、哲学与人工智能领域。现有理论从经典逻辑到概率模型虽能解释部分输出或个体行为,但缺乏对人类推理动态的统一定量描述。为此,我们提出信息流追踪(IF-Track),利用大语言模型(LLMs)作为概率编码器,量化每个推理步骤中的信息熵与增益。通过跨多种任务的细粒度分析,该方法首次在单一度量空间内建模了人类推理行为的通用景观。结果表明,IF-Track能够捕捉关键推理特征,识别系统性错误模式,并刻画个体差异。应用于高级心理理论讨论时,首次调和了单过程与双过程理论的分歧,发现人工与人类认知的对齐现象,揭示大模型如何重塑人类推理过程。该方法建立了理论与测量之间的定量桥梁,为推理架构提供了机制性洞察。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Understanding how information is dynamically accumulated and transformed in human reasoning has long challenged cognitive psychology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. Existing accounts, from classical logic to probabilistic models, illuminate aspects of output or individual modelling, but do not offer a unified, quantitative description of general human reasoning dynamics. To solve this, we introduce Information Flow Tracking (IF-Track), that uses large language models (LLMs) as probabilistic encoder to quantify information entropy and gain at each reasoning step. Through fine-grained analyses across diverse tasks, our method is the first successfully models the universal landscape of human reasoning behaviors within a single metric space. We show that IF-Track captures essential reasoning features, identifies systematic error patterns, and characterizes individual differences. Applied to discussion of advanced psychological theory, we first reconcile single- versus dual-process theories in IF-Track and discover the alignment of artificial and human cognition and how LLMs reshaping human reasoning process. This approach establishes a quantitative bridge between theory and measurement, offering mechanistic insights into the architecture of reasoning.
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