Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity

S Dehaene, F Al Roumi, Y Lakretz, S Planton… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2022 - cell.com
… emphasis on the central role of recursive tree structures in human language and cognition
[ … the languages of music, mathematics, or shape. As we shall see, those languages share …

The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing

M Schrimpf, IA Blank, G Tuckute… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
shapes the language comprehension mechanisms in the … of human language, establishing
a link between language … asked whether model performance on any language task correlates …

Efficient evolution of human antibodies from general protein language models

BL Hie, VR Shanker, D Xu, TUJ Bruun… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
… We show that general protein language models can guide highly efficient affinity maturation
based on the wild-type antibody sequence alone. Although our affinity improvements are …

Brains and algorithms partially converge in natural language processing

C Caucheteux, JR King - Communications biology, 2022 - nature.com
… Specifically, both MEG and fMRI scores follow an inverted U-shaped pattern across layers for
… Specifically, we show that language performance is the most contributing factor explaining …

Dissociating language and thought in large language models

K Mahowald, AA Ivanova, IA Blank, N Kanwisher… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
… questioned, it has undoubtedly shaped the way society today … evaluate the performance of
LLMs qua language models by … criticisms of LLMs as models of human language processing. …

The importance of modeling social factors of language: Theory and practice

D Hovy, D Yang - … for Computational Linguistics: Human language …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
language. This limits applications to a subset of information-related tasks and prevents NLP
from reaching human-level performance… , but are likely to shape our community approaches. …

Vulnerable robots positively shape human conversational dynamics in a human–robot team

ML Traeger, S Strohkorb Sebo… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
… ’ speech, we also explored how equally participants’ speech durations were within a group
as well as how evenly participants distributed their speech to the two other humanefficient

Language models show human-like content effects on reasoning

I Dasgupta, AK Lampinen, SCY Chan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
… sequences of tokens — that are shaped by their training. Indeed, … and imperfections in
language models’ performance (eg 13, … in the human language system — large language models “…

U-shaped learning and frequency effects in a multilayered perceptron: Implications for child language acquisition

K Plunkett, V Marchman - Connectionist Psychology, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
… In addition, we attempt to compare the performance of our simulations to the actual linguistic
productions of young children who are in the process of acquiring the English past tense. …

Lost in the middle: How language models use long contexts

NF Liu, K Lin, J Hewitt, A Paranjape… - Transactions of the …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
… We analyze the performance of language models on two tasks … model performance, indicating
that current language models … U-shaped performance curve (Figure 1); language model …