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5 papers

cs.AI2026

Lesioned Multimodal Language Models Reproduce Aphasic Picture-Naming Patterns

Yong Yang, Xiang Guan, Sophie Arheix-Parras +7

Aphasia following stroke commonly produces systematic naming errors with characteristic profiles, but whether general-purpose language models not designed for clinical simulation c…

cs.LG2026

Perturbation-based Regional Interpretability through Subtraction Mapping (PRISM): naming-error dissociations in language models and post-stroke aphasia

Xiang Guan, Roger D. Newman-Norlund, Yong Yang +8

Mechanistic interpretability of large language models lacks spatially resolved, falsifiable tools for testing whether internal components are specialized for distinct cognitive ope…

cs.CL2026

Recovering Lesion Parameters from Aphasic Picture Naming Error Profiles in Large Language Models

Yong Yang, Roger Newman-Norlund, Xiang Guan +10

Interpretability methods for large language models (LLMs) describe internal state but do not directly test whether that state is causally sufficient to produce the observed behavio…

stat.ME2026

Topological inference on brain networks with application to lesion symptom mapping

Yuan Wang, Jian Yin, Nicholas Riccardi +3

Persistent homology (PH) characterizes the shape of brain networks through persistence features. Group comparison of persistence features from brain networks can be challenging as…

cs.LG2026

Stroke Lesions as a Rosetta Stone for Language Model Interpretability

Julius Fridriksson, Roger D. Newman-Norlund, Saeed Ahmadi +10

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable capabilities, yet methods to verify which model components are truly necessary for language function remain limited. Current i…