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Mask and You Shall Receive: Optimizing Masked Language Modeling For Pretraining BabyLMs
Lukas Edman, Alexander Fraser
We describe our strategy for the 2025 edition of the BabyLM Challenge. Our main contribution is that of an improved form of Masked Language Modeling (MLM), which adapts the probabi…
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EXECUTE: A Multilingual Benchmark for LLM Token Understanding
Lukas Edman, Helmut Schmid, Alexander Fraser
The CUTE benchmark showed that LLMs struggle with character understanding in English. We extend it to more languages with diverse scripts and writing systems, introducing EXECUTE.…