3 papers
cs.MA2026
The emergence of numerical representations in communicating artificial agents
Daniela Mihai, Lucas Weber, Francesca Franzon
Human languages provide efficient systems for expressing numerosities, but whether the sheer pressure to communicate is enough for numerical representations to arise in artificial…
cs.CL2025
Repetitions are not all alike: distinct mechanisms sustain repetition in language models
Matéo Mahaut, Francesca Franzon
Large Language Models (LLMs) can sometimes degrade into repetitive loops, persistently generating identical word sequences. Because repetition is rare in natural human language, it…
cs.CL2024
Principles of semantic and functional efficiency in grammatical patterning
Emily Cheng, Francesca Franzon
Grammatical features such as number and gender serve two central functions in human languages. While they encode salient semantic attributes like numerosity and animacy, they also…