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The physics of randomness and regularities for languages (mother tongues) and their lifetimes and family trees and for the second languages are studied in terms of two opposite processes; random multiplicative noise [1], and fragmentation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-07-20 Caglar Tuncay

Language models are increasingly being deployed as user simulators, but their memory is far more reliable than that of real users. To measure this gap, we run a series of classic memory experiments from psychology on both humans and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Qihan Wang , Nicholas Tomlin , Michael Hu , Brian Dillon , Tal Linzen

This paper pursues the insight that language models naturally enable an intelligent variation operator similar in spirit to evolutionary crossover. In particular, language models of sufficient scale demonstrate in-context learning, i.e.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Elliot Meyerson , Mark J. Nelson , Herbie Bradley , Adam Gaier , Arash Moradi , Amy K. Hoover , Joel Lehman

Monte Carlo simulation is one of the most important tools in the study of diffusion processes. For constant diffusion coefficients, an appropriate Gaussian distribution of particle's steplengths can generate exact results, when compared…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Ruiz Barlett , M. Hoyuelos , H. O. Mártin

Large-scale Monte Carlo simulations, together with scaling, are used to obtain the critical behavior of the Hastings long-range model and two corresponding models based on small-world networks. These models have combined short- and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Zhang , M. A. Novotny

Population Monte Carlo simulations in the form commonly referred to as population annealing can serve as a useful meta-algorithm for simulating systems with complex free-energy landscapes. In the present paper we provide an easily…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-17 P. L. Ebert , D. Gessert , W. Janke , M. Weigel

Contact between languages has the potential to transmit vocabulary and other language features; however, this does not always happen. Here, an iterated learning model is used to examine, in a simple way, the resistance of languages to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Seth Bullock , Conor Houghton

This is a brief report on some recent large-scale Monte Carlo simulations for approximating the density of zeros in character tables of large symmetric groups. Previous computations suggested that a large fraction of zeros cannot be…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Alexander R. Miller , Danny Scheinerman

This study presents a framework for conducting psychological and linguistic research through simulated conversations using large language models (LLMs). The proposed methodology offers significant advantages, particularly for simulating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Frank Tian-fang Ye , Xiaozi Gao

Biological tissues are complex structures composed of many elements which make light-based tissue diagnostics challenging. Over the past decades, Monte Carlo technique has been used as a fundamental and versatile approach toward modeling…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-17 Maryam Ghahremani

Systems now exist which are able to compile unification grammars into language models that can be included in a speech recognizer, but it is so far unclear whether non-trivial linguistically principled grammars can be used for this purpose.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Manny Rayner , Beth Ann Hockey , Frankie James , Elizabeth O. Bratt , Sharon Goldwater , Mark Gawron

We study the dynamical evolution of globular clusters containing primordial binaries, including full single and binary stellar evolution using our Monte Carlo cluster evolution code updated with an adaptation of the single and binary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Sourav Chatterjee , John M. Fregeau , Stefan Umbreit , Frederic A. Rasio

We present a family of neural-network--inspired models for computing continuous word representations, specifically designed to exploit both monolingual and multilingual text. This framework allows us to perform unsupervised training of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Radu Soricut , Nan Ding

Abstract grammatical knowledge - of parts of speech and grammatical patterns - is key to the capacity for linguistic generalization in humans. But how abstract is grammatical knowledge in large language models? In the human literature,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-16 James A. Michaelov , Catherine Arnett , Tyler A. Chang , Benjamin K. Bergen

Language has been a dynamic system and word meanings always have been changed over times. Every time a novel concept or sense is introduced, we need to assign it a word to express it. Also, some changes have happened because the result of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Zahra Shekarchi , Yang Xu

In this paper we introduce a simple Monte Carlo method for simulating the dynamics of a crowd. Within our model a collection of hard-disk agents is subjected to a series of two-stage steps, implying (i) the displacement of one specific…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Francesco Piazza

In recent years several novel models were developed to process natural language, development of accurate language translation systems have helped us overcome geographical barriers and communicate ideas effectively. These models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Sangarshanan Veeraraghavan

This paper argues that large language models have a valuable scientific role to play in serving as scientific models of public languages. Linguistic study should not only be concerned with the cognitive processes behind linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jumbly Grindrod

The curse of multilinguality phenomenon is a fundamental problem of multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs), where the competition between massive languages results in inferior performance. It mainly comes from limited capacity and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chong Li , Yingzhuo Deng , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

We introduce notions of simulation between semiring-weighted automata as models of quantitative systems. Our simulations are instances of the categorical/coalgebraic notions previously studied by Hasuo---hence soundness against language…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Natsuki Urabe , Ichiro Hasuo