# CommonsenseQA: A Question Answering Challenge Targeting Commonsense Knowledge

[CommonsenseQA](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.00937) is a dataset designed to evaluate commonsense reasoning capabilities in natural language processing models. It consists of 12,247 multiple-choice questions that require background knowledge and commonsense to answer correctly. The dataset was constructed using CONCEPTNET, a graph-based knowledge base, where crowd-workers authored questions with complex semantics to challenge existing AI models.

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Contributed by [@jjallaire](https://github.com/jjallaire)
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## Usage

First, install the `inspect_ai` and `inspect_evals` Python packages with:

```bash
pip install inspect_ai
pip install git+https://github.com/UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_evals
```

Or, if developing on a clone of the `inspect_evals` repo, you can install the package in editable mode with:

```bash
pip install -e ".[dev]"
```

Then, evaluate against one or more models with:

```bash
inspect eval inspect_evals/commonsense_qa --model openai/gpt-4o
```

After running evaluations, you can view their logs using the `inspect view` command:

```bash
inspect view
```

If you don't want to specify the `--model` each time you run an evaluation, create a `.env` configuration file in your working directory that defines the `INSPECT_EVAL_MODEL` environment variable along with your API key. For example:

```bash
INSPECT_EVAL_MODEL=anthropic/claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=<anthropic-api-key>
```
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## Options

You can control a variety of options from the command line. For example:

```bash
inspect eval inspect_evals/commonsense_qa --limit 10
inspect eval inspect_evals/commonsense_qa --max-connections 10
inspect eval inspect_evals/commonsense_qa --temperature 0.5
```

See `inspect eval --help` for all available options.
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## Dataset

CommonsenseQA is a multiple-choice question answering dataset with 1,140 samples which require different types of commonsense knowledge to predict the correct answers. Here is an example from the dataset:

>Where can I stand on a river to see water falling without getting wet?
>
>A) Waterfall  
>B) Bridge  
>C) Valley  
>D) Stream  
>E) Bottom  

The model is required to choose the correct answer from the given options.

## Scoring
A simple accuracy is calculated over the datapoints.
