# Metadata Source URL:: https://towardsdatascience.com/natural-language-inference-an-overview-57c0eecf6517 Topics:: #ai --- # Natural Language Inference: An Overview Benchmark and models ## Highlights > [!quote]+ Updated on 181022_092914 > > Natural Language Inference (NLI) is the task of determining whether the given “hypothesis” logically follows from the “premise”. In layman’s terms, you need to understand whether the hypothesis is true, while the premise is your only knowledge about the subject.