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cs.CL2026
Humans and transformer LMs: Abstraction drives language learning
Jasper Jian, Christopher D. Manning
Categorization is a core component of human linguistic competence. We investigate how a transformer-based language model (LM) learns linguistic categories by comparing its behaviou…
cs.CL2025
Mechanisms vs. Outcomes: Probing for Syntax Fails to Explain Performance on Targeted Syntactic Evaluations
Ananth Agarwal, Jasper Jian, Christopher D. Manning +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit a robust mastery of syntax when processing and generating text. While this suggests internalized understanding of hierarchical syntax and depen…
cs.CL2022
Syntactic Substitutability as Unsupervised Dependency Syntax
Jasper Jian, Siva Reddy
Syntax is a latent hierarchical structure which underpins the robust and compositional nature of human language. In this work, we explore the hypothesis that syntactic dependencies…