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The Emergence and Sparsification of a Syntactic Circuit
Qing Yao, Sasha Boguraev, Tiago Pimentel +1
To understand the emergence of grammatical behavior in language models, we track circuits for subject-verb number agreement in pythia-1b and ten seeds of pythia-410m across trainin…
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What's in a Name? Morphological Shortcuts by LLMs in Pharmacology
Kaijie Mo, Thomas Yang, Chantal Shaib +6
The morphological form of a word can often give cues to its meaning, but purely relying on these mappings can lead to overgeneralization in high-stakes domains. In the medical doma…
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France or Spain or Germany or France: A Neural Account of Non-Redundant Redundant Disjunctions
Sasha Boguraev, Qing Yao, Kyle Mahowald
Sentences like "She will go to France or Spain, or perhaps to Germany or France." appear formally redundant, yet become acceptable in contexts such as "Mary will go to a philosophy…