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cs.CL2026
Biasless Language Models Learn Unnaturally: How LLMs Fail to Distinguish the Possible from the Impossible
Imry Ziv, Nur Lan, Emmanuel Chemla
Are large language models (LLMs) sensitive to the distinction between humanly possible and impossible languages? This question was recently used in a broader debate on whether LLMs…
cs.CL2026
Large Language Models as Proxies for Theories of Human Linguistic Cognition
Imry Ziv, Nur Lan, Emmanuel Chemla +1
We consider the possible role of current large language models (LLMs) in the study of human linguistic cognition. We focus on the use of such models as proxies for theories of cogn…
cs.CL2024
Bridging the Empirical-Theoretical Gap in Neural Network Formal Language Learning Using Minimum Description Length
Nur Lan, Emmanuel Chemla, Roni Katzir
Neural networks offer good approximation to many tasks but consistently fail to reach perfect generalization, even when theoretical work shows that such perfect solutions can be ex…