3 papers
cs.CL2025
Revealing emergent human-like conceptual representations from language prediction
Ningyu Xu, Qi Zhang, Chao Du +4
People acquire concepts through rich physical and social experiences and use them to understand and navigate the world. In contrast, large language models (LLMs), trained solely th…
cs.CL2024
On the Tip of the Tongue: Analyzing Conceptual Representation in Large Language Models with Reverse-Dictionary Probe
Ningyu Xu, Qi Zhang, Menghan Zhang +2
Probing and enhancing large language models' reasoning capacity remains a crucial open question. Here we re-purpose the reverse dictionary task as a case study to probe LLMs' capac…
cs.CL2023
Are Structural Concepts Universal in Transformer Language Models? Towards Interpretable Cross-Lingual Generalization
Ningyu Xu, Qi Zhang, Jingting Ye +2
Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited considerable cross-lingual generalization abilities, whereby they implicitly transfer knowledge across languages. However, the transfer…