3 papers
cs.CL2026
Goldfish: Monolingual Language Models for 350 Languages
Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Zhuowen Tu +1
For many low-resource languages, the only available language models are large multilingual models trained on many languages simultaneously. Despite state-of-the-art performance on…
cs.CL2025
Bigram Subnetworks: Mapping to Next Tokens in Transformer Language Models
Tyler A. Chang, Benjamin K. Bergen
In Transformer language models, activation vectors transform from current token embeddings to next token predictions as they pass through the model. To isolate a minimal form of th…
cs.CL2025
On the Acquisition of Shared Grammatical Representations in Bilingual Language Models
Catherine Arnett, Tyler A. Chang, James A. Michaelov +1
Crosslingual transfer is crucial to contemporary language models' multilingual capabilities, but how it occurs is not well understood. We ask what happens to a monolingual language…