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most citedWhen Is Multilinguality a Curse? Language Modeling for 250 High- and Low-Resource Languages

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cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

When Is Multilinguality a Curse? Language Modeling for 250 High- and Low-Resource Languages

Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Zhuowen Tu +1

Multilingual language models are widely used to extend NLP systems to low-resource languages. However, concrete evidence for the effects of multilinguality on language modeling per…

cs.CL2023

Structural Priming Demonstrates Abstract Grammatical Representations in Multilingual Language Models

James A. Michaelov, Catherine Arnett, Tyler A. Chang +1

Abstract grammatical knowledge - of parts of speech and grammatical patterns - is key to the capacity for linguistic generalization in humans. But how abstract is grammatical knowl…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Crosslingual Structural Priming and the Pre-Training Dynamics of Bilingual Language Models

Catherine Arnett, Tyler A. Chang, James A. Michaelov +1

Do multilingual language models share abstract grammatical representations across languages, and if so, when do these develop? Following Sinclair et al. (2022), we use structural p…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Characterizing Learning Curves During Language Model Pre-Training: Learning, Forgetting, and Stability

Tyler A. Chang, Zhuowen Tu, Benjamin K. Bergen

How do language models learn to make predictions during pre-training? To study this, we extract learning curves from five autoregressive English language model pre-training runs, f…

cs.CL2023

Characterizing and Measuring Linguistic Dataset Drift

Tyler A. Chang, Kishaloy Halder, Neha Anna John +4

NLP models often degrade in performance when real world data distributions differ markedly from training data. However, existing dataset drift metrics in NLP have generally not con…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Language Model Behavior: A Comprehensive Survey

Tyler A. Chang, Benjamin K. Bergen

Transformer language models have received widespread public attention, yet their generated text is often surprising even to NLP researchers. In this survey, we discuss over 250 rec…