2 papers
cs.CL2026
Bears, all bears, and some bears. Language Constraints on Language Models' Inductive Inferences
Sriram Padmanabhan, Siyuan Song, Kanishka Misra
Language places subtle constraints on how we make inductive inferences. Developmental evidence by Gelman et al. (2002) has shown children (4 years and older) to differentiate among…
cs.CL2025
On Language Models' Sensitivity to Suspicious Coincidences
Sriram Padmanabhan, Kanishka Misra, Kyle Mahowald +1
Humans are sensitive to suspicious coincidences when generalizing inductively over data, as they make assumptions as to how the data was sampled. This results in smaller, more spec…