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5 papers

cs.CL2026

Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures

Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Sadallah +377

To date, there exist almost no culturally-specific evaluation benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) that cover a large number of languages and cultures. In this paper, we pre…

cs.CL2026

Language Acquisition Device in Large Language Models

Masato Mita, Taiga Someya, Ryo Yoshida +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) remain substantially less data-efficient than humans. Pre-pretraining (PPT) on synthetic languages has been proposed to close this gap, with prior work…

cs.CL2026

An Existence Proof for Neural Language Models That Can Explain Garden-Path Effects via Surprisal

Ryo Yoshida, Shinnosuke Isono, Taiga Someya +2

Surprisal theory hypothesizes that the difficulty of human sentence processing increases linearly with surprisal, the negative log-probability of a word given its context. Computat…

cs.CL2025

Derivational Probing: Unveiling the Layer-wise Derivation of Syntactic Structures in Neural Language Models

Taiga Someya, Ryo Yoshida, Hitomi Yanaka +1

Recent work has demonstrated that neural language models encode syntactic structures in their internal representations, yet the derivations by which these structures are constructe…

cs.CL2025

If Attention Serves as a Cognitive Model of Human Memory Retrieval, What is the Plausible Memory Representation?

Ryo Yoshida, Shinnosuke Isono, Kohei Kajikawa +3

Recent work in computational psycholinguistics has revealed intriguing parallels between attention mechanisms and human memory retrieval, focusing primarily on vanilla Transformers…