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Research shows neural language models encode grammaticality in internal representations

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A new research paper explores whether neural language models (NLMs) can distinguish grammatical from ungrammatical sentences by examining their internal representations, rather than just probability assignments. Using a technique called mass-mean probing, the study found that grammaticality is consistently encoded in the representations of various pretrained NLMs. This encoding appears to be robust across different grammatical phenomena and even generalizes to some extent across languages, suggesting grammaticality is a distinct dimension within these models. AI

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Jane Li, Najoung Kim ·

    Linear representations of grammaticality in neural language models

    arXiv:2607.15175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whether neural language models (NLMs) possess the ability to distinguish strings on the basis of their grammaticality remains a debated topic in the computational linguistics literature. Existing evidence has largely relied on proba…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Najoung Kim ·

    Linear representations of grammaticality in neural language models

    Whether neural language models (NLMs) possess the ability to distinguish strings on the basis of their grammaticality remains a debated topic in the computational linguistics literature. Existing evidence has largely relied on probability-based measures, testing whether models as…

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