2 papers
cs.CL2026
(V)LMs generalize beyond surface co-occurrence: Evidence from cross-modal number agreement
Zach Studdiford, Kanishka Misra
Language models learn about grammatical number primarily from co-occurrence, and show frequency effects as a result---sometimes taken to indicate that they do not learn abstract ``…
cs.AI2026
Reasoning as Pattern Matching: Shared Mechanisms in Human and LLM Everyday Reasoning
Zach Studdiford, Gary Lupyan
When large language models (LLMs) fail to generalize or make haphazard errors in reasoning, it is often taken as evidence that LLMs are not truly reasoning, but rather performing a…