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LLMs' Plural Reference Mechanisms Under Scrutiny

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Researchers have investigated how Large Language Models (LLMs) handle plural references, specifically how they represent and retrieve singular and plural entities. Using mechanistic interpretability and attention pattern analysis, the study identified specific attention heads responsible for coreference information, identifying plural references, and predicting pronouns. The findings indicate that LLMs align with human preferences for plural pronouns, especially when entities are ontologically similar and connected by 'and'. AI

IMPACT Provides insight into LLM reasoning capabilities for coreference resolution, potentially improving their understanding of complex linguistic structures.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a study on LLM mechanisms. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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LLMs' Plural Reference Mechanisms Under Scrutiny

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Anh Danh, Rick Nouwen, Massimo Poesio ·

    A Circuit for Plural Reference: How LLMs Represent and Retrieve Singular and Plural Entities

    arXiv:2609.03687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coreference resolution is an important task in contextual reasoning. In this paper, we investigate the mechanism for representing and retrieving singular and plural entities for plural reference. We use a combination of mechanistic …

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