3 papers
cs.CL2026
Sparse Auto-Encoders and Holism about Large Language Models
Jumbly Grindrod
Does Large Language Model (LLM) technology suggest a meta-semantic picture i.e. a picture of how words and complex expressions come to have the meaning that they do? One modest app…
cs.CL2025
Word Meanings in Transformer Language Models
Jumbly Grindrod, Peter Grindrod
We investigate how word meanings are represented in the transformer language models. Specifically, we focus on whether transformer models employ something analogous to a lexical st…
cs.CL2024
Distributional Semantics, Holism, and the Instability of Meaning
Jumbly Grindrod, J. D. Porter, Nat Hansen
Large Language Models are built on the so-called distributional semantic approach to linguistic meaning that has the distributional hypothesis at its core. The distributional hypot…