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Agent-based imitation dynamics can yield efficiently compressed population-level vocabularies
Nathaniel Imel, Richard Futrell, Michael Franke +1
Natural languages have been argued to evolve under pressure to efficiently compress meanings into words by optimizing the Information Bottleneck (IB) complexity-accuracy tradeoff.…
Clarifying orthography: Orthographic transparency as compressibility
Charles J. Torres, Richard Futrell
Orthographic transparency -- how directly spelling is related to sound -- lacks a unified, script-agnostic metric. Using ideas from algorithmic information theory, we quantify orth…
Strategic resource allocation in memory encoding: An efficiency principle shaping language processing
Weijie Xu, Richard Futrell
How is the limited capacity of working memory efficiently used to support human linguistic behaviors? In this paper, we propose Strategic Resource Allocation (SRA) as an efficiency…
A hierarchical Bayesian model for syntactic priming
Weijie Xu, Richard Futrell
The effect of syntactic priming exhibits three well-documented empirical properties: the lexical boost, the inverse frequency effect, and the asymmetrical decay. We aim to show how…
Exploring the Sensitivity of LLMs' Decision-Making Capabilities: Insights from Prompt Variation and Hyperparameters
Manikanta Loya, Divya Anand Sinha, Richard Futrell
The advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to their widespread use across a broad spectrum of tasks including decision making. Prior studies have compared the decision…