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most citedMechanisms for Handling Nested Dependencies in Neural-Network Language Models and Humans

63 citations · 143 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

q-bio.NC2022★ 9 cited

Aligning individual brains with Fused Unbalanced Gromov-Wasserstein

Alexis Thual, Huy Tran, Tatiana Zemskova +4

Individual brains vary in both anatomy and functional organization, even within a given species. Inter-individual variability is a major impediment when trying to draw generalizabl…

cs.CL2021

Causal Transformers Perform Below Chance on Recursive Nested Constructions, Unlike Humans

Yair Lakretz, Théo Desbordes, Dieuwke Hupkes +1

Recursive processing is considered a hallmark of human linguistic abilities. A recent study evaluated recursive processing in recurrent neural language models (RNN-LMs) and showed…

cs.CL2021★ 13 cited

Can RNNs learn Recursive Nested Subject-Verb Agreements?

Yair Lakretz, Théo Desbordes, Jean-Rémi King +3

One of the fundamental principles of contemporary linguistics states that language processing requires the ability to extract recursively nested tree structures. However, it remain…

cs.CL2020★ 63 cited

Mechanisms for Handling Nested Dependencies in Neural-Network Language Models and Humans

Yair Lakretz, Dieuwke Hupkes, Alessandra Vergallito +3

Recursive processing in sentence comprehension is considered a hallmark of human linguistic abilities. However, its underlying neural mechanisms remain largely unknown. We studied…

cs.CL2019★ 50 cited

The emergence of number and syntax units in LSTM language models

Yair Lakretz, German Kruszewski, Theo Desbordes +3

Recent work has shown that LSTMs trained on a generic language modeling objective capture syntax-sensitive generalizations such as long-distance number agreement. We have however n…

q-bio.NC2013★ 8 cited

A neuronal device for the control of multi-step computations

Ariel D Zylberberg, Luciano Paz, Pieter R Roelfsema +2

We describe the operation of a neuronal device which embodies the computational principles of the `paper-and-pencil' machine envisioned by Alan Turing. The network is based on prin…