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most citedBeyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

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cs.CL2026

LIFT: Scoped Constraints for Evaluating and Training Instruction Following

Eran Goldstein, Yuval Belfer, Yonatan Belinkov +1

Common instruction following (IF) benchmarks, such as IFEval, evaluate the ability of language models (LMs) to follow simple constraints that can easily be verified programmaticall…

cs.CL2026

Feeding BabyLMs Macaroni: Code-Switching Curricula Cause Cross-Lingual Convergence

Dries Rooryck, Alex Cai, Yonatan Belinkov +2

Children in multilingual communities often code-switch, using multiple languages in a single utterance. Can we induce cross-lingual alignment in language models by training on code…

cs.LG2026

Decomposing Query-Key Feature Interactions Using Contrastive Covariances

Andrew Lee, Yonatan Belinkov, Fernanda Viégas +1

Despite the central role of attention heads in Transformers, we lack tools to understand why a model attends to a particular token. To address this, we study the query-key (QK) spa…

cs.AI2026

Investigating the Development of Task-Oriented Communication in Vision-Language Models

Boaz Carmeli, Orr Paradise, Shafi Goldwasser +2

We investigate whether \emph{LLM-based agents} can develop task-oriented communication protocols that differ from standard natural language in collaborative reasoning tasks. Our fo…

cs.AI2026

CtD: Composition through Decomposition in Emergent Communication

Boaz Carmeli, Ron Meir, Yonatan Belinkov

Compositionality is a cognitive mechanism that allows humans to systematically combine known concepts in novel ways. This study demonstrates how artificial neural agents acquire an…

cs.CL2026

Will it Merge? On The Causes of Model Mergeability

Adir Rahamim, Asaf Yehudai, Boaz Carmeli +3

Model merging has emerged as a promising technique for combining multiple fine-tuned models into a single multitask model without retraining. However, the factors that determine wh…