10 papers
On the use of foundation models in cognitive science
Raj Sanjay Shah, Alex Warstadt, Michael Frank +1
A host of recent studies have evaluated the cognitive and developmental alignment of Foundation Models (FMs). These investigations include evaluations of their correspondence to ad…
Dual Alignment Between Language Model Layers and Human Sentence Processing
Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Alex Warstadt, Yohei Oseki +1
A recent study (Kuribayashi et al., 2025) has shown that human sentence processing behavior, typically measured on syntactically unchallenging constructions, can be effectively mod…
BabyLM Turns 4 and Goes Multilingual: Call for Papers for the 2026 BabyLM Workshop
Leshem Choshen, Ryan Cotterell, Mustafa Omer Gul +7
The goal of the BabyLM is to stimulate new research connections between cognitive modeling and language model pretraining. We invite contributions in this vein to the BabyLM Worksh…
BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data
Jaap Jumelet, Abdellah Fourtassi, Akari Haga +23
We present BabyBabelLM, a multilingual collection of datasets modeling the language a person observes from birth until they acquire a native language. We curate developmentally pla…
The Harmonic Structure of Information Contours
Eleftheria Tsipidi, Samuel Kiegeland, Franz Nowak +5
The uniform information density (UID) hypothesis proposes that speakers aim to distribute information evenly throughout a text, balancing production effort and listener comprehensi…
Towards Developmentally Plausible Rewards: Communicative Success as a Learning Signal for Interactive Language Models
Lennart Stöpler, Rufat Asadli, Mitja Nikolaus +2
We propose a method for training language models in an interactive setting inspired by child language acquisition. In our setting, a speaker attempts to communicate some informatio…