Common Sense Reasoning
PI: Surangika Ranathunga
The Common Sense Reasoning project focuses on advancing culturally grounded evaluation and knowledge representation for language-based artificial intelligence systems.
Projects
Socio-Cultural Alignment of Large Language Models
PI: Nisansa de Silva
The proposed research is expected to break new ground by addressing the dual challenges of linguistic complexity and cultural awareness in Sinhala, a low-resource language largely overlooked in LLM research.
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Publications
Preprints
Nisansa de Silva and Surangika Ranathunga, "Sinhala Physical Common Sense Reasoning Dataset for Global PIQA", arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.02207, 2026. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2602.02207
Tyler A Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Eldesokey, Abdelrahman Sadallah, Abeer Kashar, Abolade Daud, Abosede Grace Olanihun, Adamu Labaran Mohammed, Adeyemi Praise, Adhikarinayum Meerajita Sharma, and others, "Global PIQA: Evaluating Physical Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures", arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.24081, 2025