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20242026
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5 papers

cs.CL2026

When Do Concepts Become Functionally Sufficient During Language-Model Training?

Raphael Bernas, Paul G. Chevalier, Fanny Jourdan +1

Understanding a model and its learning mechanisms in depth requires identifying when its internal structures become useful, rather than simply looking at the final state. We study…

cs.CL2026

Revisiting Anisotropy in Language Transformers: The Geometry of Learning Dynamics

Raphael Bernas, Fanny Jourdan, Antonin Poché +1

Since their introduction, Transformer architectures have dominated Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, recent research has highlighted an inherent anisotropy phenomenon in…

cs.CL2025

FairTranslate: An English-French Dataset for Gender Bias Evaluation in Machine Translation by Overcoming Gender Binarity

Fanny Jourdan, Yannick Chevalier, Cécile Favre

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly leveraged for translation tasks but often fall short when translating inclusive language -- such as texts containing the singular 'the…

cs.CL2025

ConSim: Measuring Concept-Based Explanations' Effectiveness with Automated Simulatability

Antonin Poché, Alon Jacovi, Agustin Martin Picard +2

Concept-based explanations work by mapping complex model computations to human-understandable concepts. Evaluating such explanations is very difficult, as it includes not only the…

cs.CL2024

Advancing Fairness in Natural Language Processing: From Traditional Methods to Explainability

Fanny Jourdan

The burgeoning field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) stands at a critical juncture where the integration of fairness within its frameworks has become an imperative. This PhD t…