4 papers
What Can String Probability Tell Us About Grammaticality?
Jennifer Hu, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Siyuan Song +2
What have language models (LMs) learned about grammar? This question remains hotly debated, with major ramifications for linguistic theory. However, since probability and grammatic…
Language Models Fail to Introspect About Their Knowledge of Language
Siyuan Song, Jennifer Hu, Kyle Mahowald
There has been recent interest in whether large language models (LLMs) can introspect about their own internal states. Such abilities would make LLMs more interpretable, and also v…
Privileged Self-Access Matters for Introspection in AI
Siyuan Song, Harvey Lederman, Jennifer Hu +1
Whether AI models can introspect is an increasingly important practical question. But there is no consensus on how introspection is to be defined. Beginning from a recently propose…
A suite of LMs comprehend puzzle statements as well as humans
Adele E Goldberg, Supantho Rakshit, Jennifer Hu +1
Recent claims suggest that large language models (LMs) underperform humans in comprehending minimally complex English statements (Dentella et al., 2024). Here, we revisit those fin…