2 papers
cs.CL2026
What can LLMs tell us about the mechanisms behind polarity illusions in humans? Experiments across model scales and training steps
Dario Paape
I use the Pythia scaling suite (Biderman et al. 2023) to investigate if and how two well-known polarity illusions, the NPI illusion and the depth charge illusion, arise in LLMs. Th…
cs.CL2026
Deconstructing sentence disambiguation by joint latent modeling of reading paradigms: LLM surprisal is not enough
Dario Paape, Tal Linzen, Shravan Vasishth
Using temporarily ambiguous garden-path sentences ("While the team trained the striker wondered ...") as a test case, we present a latent-process mixture model of human reading beh…