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cs.CL2025
The mutual exclusivity bias of bilingual visually grounded speech models
Dan Oneata, Leanne Nortje, Yevgen Matusevych +1
Mutual exclusivity (ME) is a strategy where a novel word is associated with a novel object rather than a familiar one, facilitating language learning in children. Recent work has f…
cs.CL2024
Choosy Babies Need One Coach: Inducing Mode-Seeking Behavior in BabyLlama with Reverse KL Divergence
Shaozhen Shi, Yevgen Matusevych, Malvina Nissim
This study presents our submission to the Strict-Small Track of the 2nd BabyLM Challenge. We use a teacher-student distillation setup with the BabyLLaMa model (Timiryasov and Taste…
cs.CL2024
Visually Grounded Speech Models have a Mutual Exclusivity Bias
Leanne Nortje, Dan Oneaţă, Yevgen Matusevych +1
When children learn new words, they employ constraints such as the mutual exclusivity (ME) bias: a novel word is mapped to a novel object rather than a familiar one. This bias has…