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ChLogic: Evaluating Robustness of Logical Reasoning in Chinese Expressions

Peixian Zhou, Yuxu Chen, Chaorui Zhang, Wei Han, Bo Bai, Xueyan Niu

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Published 2026-06-16 · First seen 2026-06-17

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Large language models perform increasingly well on standardized logical reasoning benchmarks, but whether this ability remains robust beyond English is unclear. We introduce ChLogic, an English--Chinese aligned benchmark that tests whether models preserve logical reasoning performance when the same latent logical structure is expressed in English and diverse Chinese surface realizations. Built from formal logical templates, the benchmark contains three data sets: (i) the General aligned set, derived from 60 General Propositions across nine template families; (ii) the Difficult aligned set, derived from 40 Difficult Problems; and (iii) the Chinese-only set, covering 15 language-specific phenomenon types. Each aligned item pairs one English reference expression with five Chinese realizations. Experiments on Qwen3, Ministral, and GLM models reveal a persistent English--Chinese performance gap. Back-translation from standard Chinese into English often improves performance on the General aligned set, but produces mixed effects on the Difficult aligned set, where Qwen3-32B and GLM-5.1 perform worse after translation. These results indicate that Chinese surface realization, translation artifacts, and model-specific behavior jointly affect multilingual logical reasoning. Overall, ChLogic provides a useful stress test for the robustness of multilingual reasoning.

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@misc{zhou2026chlogic,
  title = {ChLogic: Evaluating Robustness of Logical Reasoning in Chinese Expressions},
  author = {Peixian Zhou and Yuxu Chen and Chaorui Zhang and Wei Han and Bo Bai and Xueyan Niu},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Large language models perform increasingly well on standardized logical reasoning benchmarks, but whether this ability remains robust beyond English is unclear. We introduce ChLogic, an English--Chinese aligned benchmark that tests whether models preserve logical reasoning performance when the same latent logical structure is expressed in English and diverse Chinese surface realizations. Built from formal logical templates, the benchmark contains three data sets: (i) the General aligned set, der},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.17905},
  keywords = {large language models, logical reasoning benchmarks, multilingual reasoning, back-translation, surface realization, code available, huggingface daily},
  eprint = {2606.17905},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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