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Large Language Models (LLMs) have lately been on the spotlight of researchers, businesses, and consumers alike. While the linguistic capabilities of such models have been studied extensively, there is growing interest in investigating them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Sotiris Lamprinidis

Large Language Models are useless for linguistics, as they are probabilistic models that require a vast amount of data to analyse externalized strings of words. In contrast, human language is underpinned by a mind-internal computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Johan J. Bolhuis , Andrea Moro , Stephen Crain , Sandiway Fong

Multi-token prediction (MTP) has been proposed as an auxiliary objective to improve next-token prediction (NTP) in language model training but shows inconsistent improvements, underperforming in standard NLP benchmarks. We found MTP's exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zayd M. K. Zuhri , Erland Hilman Fuadi , Alham Fikri Aji

Large language models are pre-trained on ever-growing token budgets under the assumption that better pre-training performance translates to improved downstream models. In this work, we challenge this assumption and show that extended…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Jacob Mitchell Springer , Sachin Goyal , Kaiyue Wen , Tanishq Kumar , Xiang Yue , Sadhika Malladi , Graham Neubig , Aditi Raghunathan

We investigate whether large language models (LLMs) can predict whether they will succeed on a given task and whether their predictions improve as they progress through multi-step tasks. We also investigate whether LLMs can learn from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Casey O. Barkan , Sid Black , Oliver Sourbut

Despite being designed for performance rather than cognitive plausibility, transformer language models have been found to be better at predicting metrics used to assess human language comprehension than language models with other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-21 James A. Michaelov , Megan D. Bardolph , Seana Coulson , Benjamin K. Bergen

Large language models have recently demonstrated their exceptional capabilities in supporting and automating various tasks. Among the tasks worth exploring for testing large language model capabilities, we considered data preparation, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Matteo Spreafico , Ludovica Tassini , Camilla Sancricca , Cinzia Cappiello

The capabilities of supervised machine learning (SML), especially compared to human abilities, are being discussed in scientific research and in the usage of SML. This study provides an answer to how learning performance differs between…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Niklas Kühl , Marc Goutier , Lucas Baier , Clemens Wolff , Dominik Martin

Synthetic users are cost-effective proxies for real users in the evaluation of conversational recommender systems. Large language models show promise in simulating human-like behavior, raising the question of their ability to represent a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Se-eun Yoon , Zhankui He , Jessica Maria Echterhoff , Julian McAuley

Language Generation Models produce words based on the previous context. Although existing methods offer input attributions as explanations for a model's prediction, it is still unclear how prior words affect the model's decision throughout…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Javier Ferrando , Gerard I. Gállego , Ioannis Tsiamas , Marta R. Costa-jussà

Pre-training language models (LMs) on large-scale unlabeled text data makes the model much easier to achieve exceptional downstream performance than their counterparts directly trained on the downstream tasks. In this work, we study what…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Cheng-Han Chiang , Hung-yi Lee

Large language models (LLMs) are currently at the forefront of intertwining AI systems with human communication and everyday life. Therefore, it is of great importance to evaluate their emerging abilities. In this study, we show that LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Thilo Hagendorff , Sarah Fabi , Michal Kosinski

Language models have steadily increased in size over the past few years. They achieve a high level of performance on various natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as question answering and summarization. Large language models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Jessica Huynh , Cathy Jiao , Prakhar Gupta , Shikib Mehri , Payal Bajaj , Vishrav Chaudhary , Maxine Eskenazi

Unsupervised Machine Learning techniques have been applied to Natural Language Processing tasks and surpasses the benchmarks such as GLUE with great success. Building language models approach achieves good results in one language and it can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Amir Jafari

Large neural language models trained on massive amounts of text have emerged as a formidable strategy for Natural Language Understanding tasks. However, the strength of these models as Natural Language Generators is less clear. Though…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Abigail See , Aneesh Pappu , Rohun Saxena , Akhila Yerukola , Christopher D. Manning

Larger language models have higher accuracy on average, but are they better on every single instance (datapoint)? Some work suggests larger models have higher out-of-distribution robustness, while other work suggests they have lower…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Ruiqi Zhong , Dhruba Ghosh , Dan Klein , Jacob Steinhardt

Math is constructed by people for people: just as natural language corpora reflect not just propositions but the communicative goals of language users, the math data that models are trained on reflects not just idealized mathematical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sasha Boguraev , Ben Lipkin , Leonie Weissweiler , Kyle Mahowald

Predicting the future is of great interest across many aspects of human activity. Businesses are interested in future trends, traders are interested in future stock prices, and companies are highly interested in future technological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Changmao Li , Jeffrey Flanigan

Scaling up language models has led to unprecedented performance gains, but little is understood about how the training dynamics change as models get larger. How do language models of different sizes learn during pre-training? Why do larger…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Mengzhou Xia , Mikel Artetxe , Chunting Zhou , Xi Victoria Lin , Ramakanth Pasunuru , Danqi Chen , Luke Zettlemoyer , Ves Stoyanov