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Failures and Successes to Learn a Core Conceptual Distinction from the Statistics of Language

arXiv:2607. 04523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generic statements like "tigers are striped" and "cars have radios" communicate information that is, in general, true.

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Jul 8

Dissociating the Internal Representations of Sycophancy in LLMs

Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently exhibit sycophancy, where they agree with a user's statement even when incorrect. While sycophancy is often treated as a single defined behavior, it can manifest in substantially distinct ways and circumstances, raising the question of whether this multi-faceted nature is reflected in its internal mechanisms.

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Jun 11

Reasoning as Pattern Matching: Shared Mechanisms in Human and LLM Everyday Reasoning

When large language models (LLMs) fail to generalize or make haphazard errors in reasoning, it is often taken as evidence that LLMs are not truly reasoning, but rather performing a kind of pattern matching. The implication is that people's behavior does not exhibit the same types of failures because human reasoning uses principled and abstract world models.

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Jul 22

Exposure is Optional: Learning Unlike Coordination in Language Models

Coordination, a fundamental linguistic structure, remains a subject of intense debate, and its exact nature continues to elude theoretical linguistics. A common view holds that only same-category constituents can be conjoined, which has been challenged by the many grammatical unlike coordinations found in natural language.