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Beetle: A Bilingual Model Suite for Modelling Second-Language Processing
Suchir Salhan, Catherine Arnett, James Michaelov +1
Bilingual language models (LMs) offer a controlled setting for studying how training conditions shape second-language (L2) behaviour, but prior work typically varies exposure struc…
How Open Must Language Models be to Enable Reliable Scientific Inference?
James A. Michaelov, Catherine Arnett, Tyler A. Chang +7
How does the extent to which a model is open or closed impact the scientific inferences that can be drawn from research that involves it? In this paper, we analyze how restrictions…
N-gram-like Language Models Predict Naturalistic Reading Time Best
James A. Michaelov, Roger P. Levy
Recent work has found that contemporary language models such as transformers can become so good at next-word prediction that the probabilities they calculate become worse for predi…
Language Statistics and False Belief Reasoning: Evidence from 41 Open-Weight LMs
Sean Trott, Samuel Taylor, Cameron Jones +2
Research on mental state reasoning in language models (LMs) has the potential to inform theories of human social cognition--such as the theory that mental state reasoning emerges i…