The essential files for our experiments are organized within a folder named LOGIC. This folder contains the following structure:

This subfolder includes:

• The original VAST dataset from https://github.com/emilyallaway/zero-shot-stance. This dataset is divided into train, dev, and test splits. The file names are as follows: vast_dev.csv, vast_test.csv, vast_train.csv.

This folder includes:

• Additional datasets created by us for experimental purposes (LLM target knowledge, LLM reasoning).
• LLM target knowledge data files: new_topic_chatgpt.json, new_topic_chatgpt.pkl, topic_str_chatgpt.json, topic_str_chatgpt.pkl. The file actually used for the performance comparison is new_topic_chatgpt.pkl. The two types of files were used to find the better one by utilizing the columns in the original data CSV. The JSON files are the original files, while the PKL files are converted versions used for experiments to ensure compatibility with Wikipedia data. The contents of each JSON and PKL file are identical.
• Wikipedia target knowledge file: wiki_dict.pkl. This file is in PKL format because it follows the data format first presented in the repository of the paper "Infusing Knowledge from Wikipedia to Enhance Stance Detection" (https://github.com/zihaohe123/wiki-enhanced-stance-detection) and used in the paper "Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Stance Detection on Varied Topics via Conditional Generation" (https://github.com/wenhycs/ACL2023-Zero-Shot-and-Few-Shot-Stance-Detection-on-Varied-Topics-via-Conditional-Generation).
• VAST_reasoing_long_and_short.csv: This file contains LLM reasoning and is used for model training. Detailed information is provided in the paper.
• For ease of use, the raw_data files are also included in the data folder.

• dataset.py: Script for handling and processing datasets.
• main.py: Main script for running experiments on the VAST dataset.
• models.py: Script containing model definitions and related functions.
• run.sh: Shell script for executing experiments on the VAST dataset.

To reproduce our experiments, follow these steps:

• Refer to the parser variables defined in main.py.
• Adjust these variables according to your experimental needs.

• Edit the variables in run.sh to match your setup.

• Run the shell script to start the experiments. The execution results will be logged and stored in a new folder named logs, created during execution.

For a more comprehensive theoretical background, detailed methodologies, and experimental settings, please refer to the body of our accompanying paper.