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most citedHuman-like Linguistic Biases in Neural Speech Models: Phonetic Categorization and Phonotactic Constraints in Wav2Vec2.0

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cs.AI2026

Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking

Devin Pereira, Willem Zuidema

The Tower of Hanoi is a simple planning puzzle that in prior work has proven challenging for large reasoning models (LRMs). Current models solve the standard formulation of the puz…

cs.CL2026

In-Context Learning in Speech Language Models: Analyzing the Role of Acoustic Features, Linguistic Structure, and Induction Heads

Charlotte Pouw, Hosein Mohebbi, Afra Alishahi +1

In-Context Learning (ICL) has been extensively studied in text-only Language Models, but remains largely unexplored in the speech domain. Here, we investigate how linguistic and ac…

cs.CL2026

Tracking the emergence of linguistic structure in self-supervised models learning from speech

Marianne de Heer Kloots, Martijn Bentum, Hosein Mohebbi +3

Self-supervised speech models learn effective representations of spoken language, which have been shown to reflect various aspects of linguistic structure. But when does such struc…

cs.LG2026

Transformer See, Transformer Do: Copying as an Intermediate Step in Learning Analogical Reasoning

Philipp Hellwig, Willem Zuidema, Claire E. Stevenson +1

Analogical reasoning is a hallmark of human intelligence, enabling us to solve new problems by transferring knowledge from one situation to another. Yet, developing artificial inte…

cs.CL2025

The Curious Case of Visual Grounding: Different Effects for Speech- and Text-based Language Encoders

Adrian Sauter, Willem Zuidema, Marianne de Heer Kloots

How does visual information included in training affect language processing in audio- and text-based deep learning models? We explore how such visual grounding affects model-intern…

cs.CL2025

What do self-supervised speech models know about Dutch? Analyzing advantages of language-specific pre-training

Marianne de Heer Kloots, Hosein Mohebbi, Charlotte Pouw +3

How language-specific are speech representations learned by self-supervised models? Existing work has shown that a range of linguistic features can be successfully decoded from end…