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Principles of semantic and functional efficiency in grammatical patterning
Emily Cheng, Francesca Franzon
Grammatical features such as number and gender serve two central functions in human languages. While they encode salient semantic attributes like numerosity and animacy, they also…
cs.CL2024
Geometric Signatures of Compositionality Across a Language Model's Lifetime
Jin Hwa Lee, Thomas Jiralerspong, Lei Yu +2
By virtue of linguistic compositionality, few syntactic rules and a finite lexicon can generate an unbounded number of sentences. That is, language, though seemingly high-dimension…
cs.CL2024
Evidence from fMRI Supports a Two-Phase Abstraction Process in Language Models
Emily Cheng, Richard J. Antonello
Research has repeatedly demonstrated that intermediate hidden states extracted from large language models are able to predict measured brain response to natural language stimuli. Y…