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The goal of language modeling techniques is to capture the statistical and structural properties of natural languages from training corpora. This task typically involves the learning of short range dependencies, which generally model the…

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Reasoning and inference are central to human and artificial intelligence. Modeling inference in human language is very challenging. With the availability of large annotated data (Bowman et al., 2015), it has recently become feasible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Qian Chen , Xiaodan Zhu , Zhenhua Ling , Si Wei , Hui Jiang , Diana Inkpen

We propose a method of stacking multiple long short-term memory (LSTM) layers for modeling sentences. In contrast to the conventional stacked LSTMs where only hidden states are fed as input to the next layer, the suggested architecture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Jihun Choi , Taeuk Kim , Sang-goo Lee

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have achieved impressive results in a variety of linguistic processing tasks, suggesting that they can induce non-trivial properties of language. We investigate here to what extent RNNs learn to track…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Kristina Gulordava , Piotr Bojanowski , Edouard Grave , Tal Linzen , Marco Baroni

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and its variations such as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), have become standard building blocks for learning online data of sequential nature in many research areas, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Enmao Diao , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

Recommendation systems aim to provide users with relevant suggestions, but often lack interpretability and fail to capture higher-level semantic relationships between user behaviors and profiles. In this paper, we propose a novel approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Yan Wang , Zhixuan Chu , Xin Ouyang , Simeng Wang , Hongyan Hao , Yue Shen , Jinjie Gu , Siqiao Xue , James Y Zhang , Qing Cui , Longfei Li , Jun Zhou , Sheng Li

Neural language models (LMs) are typically trained using only lexical features, such as surface forms of words. In this paper, we argue this deprives the LM of crucial syntactic signals that can be detected at high confidence using existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Duncan Blythe , Alan Akbik , Roland Vollgraf

We explore neural language modeling for speech recognition where the context spans multiple sentences. Rather than encode history beyond the current sentence using a cache of words or document-level features, we focus our study on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Sarangarajan Parthasarathy , William Gale , Xie Chen , George Polovets , Shuangyu Chang

In this paper, we propose a novel neural approach for paraphrase generation. Conventional para- phrase generation methods either leverage hand-written rules and thesauri-based alignments, or use statistical machine learning principles. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Aaditya Prakash , Sadid A. Hasan , Kathy Lee , Vivek Datla , Ashequl Qadir , Joey Liu , Oladimeji Farri

Long-term memory is one of the key factors influencing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Model Agents (LLM Agents). Incorporating a memory mechanism that effectively integrates past interactions can significantly enhance…

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The performance of modern language models (LMs) has been improved by chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, i.e., the process of generating intermediate results that guide the model towards a final answer. A possible explanation for this…

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Cognitive science and neuroscience have long faced the challenge of disentangling representations of language from representations of conceptual meaning. As the same problem arises in today's language models (LMs), we investigate the…

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Long short-term memory (LSTM) is one of the robust recurrent neural network architectures for learning sequential data. However, it requires considerable computational power to learn and implement both software and hardware aspects. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed , Anthony S. Maida

In the present study, we investigate and compare reasoning in large language models (LLM) and humans using a selection of cognitive psychology tools traditionally dedicated to the study of (bounded) rationality. To do so, we presented to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Nicolas Yax , Hernan Anlló , Stefano Palminteri

Deep learning sequence models have led to a marked increase in performance for a range of Natural Language Processing tasks, but it remains an open question whether they are able to induce proper hierarchical generalizations for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Ethan Wilcox , Roger Levy , Richard Futrell

Large language models (LLMs) reliably predict neural activity during language comprehension and transformer depth has been interpreted as mirroring hierarchical cortical organization. However, it remains unclear whether such alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ni Yang , Rui He , Philipp Homan , Iris Sommer , Davide Staub , Wolfram Hinzen

Language is a uniquely human trait, conveying information efficiently by organizing word sequences in sentences into hierarchical structures. A central question persists: Why is human language hierarchical? In this study, we show that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Luyao Chen , Weibo Gao , Junjie Wu , Jinshan Wu , Angela D. Friederici

Countless learning tasks require dealing with sequential data. Image captioning, speech synthesis, and music generation all require that a model produce outputs that are sequences. In other domains, such as time series prediction, video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Zachary C. Lipton , John Berkowitz , Charles Elkan

The standard LSTM recurrent neural networks while very powerful in long-range dependency sequence applications have highly complex structure and relatively large (adaptive) parameters. In this work, we present empirical comparison between…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Yuzhen Lu , Fathi M. Salem

Making computer programming language more understandable and easy for the human is a longstanding problem. From assembly language to present day's object-oriented programming, concepts came to make programming easier so that a programmer…

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