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Sometimes I am a Tree: Data Drives Unstable Hierarchical Generalization
Tian Qin, Naomi Saphra, David Alvarez-Melis
Early in training, LMs can behave like n-gram models, but eventually they often learn tree-based syntactic rules and generalize hierarchically out of distribution (OOD). We study t…
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Recite, Reconstruct, Recollect: Memorization in LMs as a Multifaceted Phenomenon
USVSN Sai Prashanth, Alvin Deng, Kyle O'Brien +9
Memorization in language models is typically treated as a homogenous phenomenon, neglecting the specifics of the memorized data. We instead model memorization as the effect of a se…