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The Structural Sources of Verb Meaning Revisited: Large Language Models Display Syntactic Bootstrapping
Xiaomeng Zhu, R. Thomas McCoy, Robert Frank
Syntactic bootstrapping (Gleitman, 1990) is the hypothesis that children use the syntactic environments in which a verb occurs to learn its meaning. In this paper, we examine wheth…
Identifying and Mitigating the Influence of the Prior Distribution in Large Language Models
Liyi Zhang, Veniamin Veselovsky, R. Thomas McCoy +1
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes fail to respond appropriately to deterministic tasks -- such as counting or forming acronyms -- because the implicit prior distribution they…
Levels of Analysis for Large Language Models
Alexander Y. Ku, Declan Campbell, Xuechunzi Bai +10
Modern artificial intelligence systems, such as large language models, are increasingly powerful but also increasingly hard to understand. Recognizing this problem as analogous to…