The study investigates whether language models trained specifically on Cantonese better predict human reading patterns by comparing eye-tracking data with information-theoretic metrics derived from several models. Two adaptation contrasts were examined: a lightly adapted CKIP GPT-2 Tiny versus its Cantonese derivative JED351, and a heavily adapted Qwen2.5-7B versus CantoneseLLM-7B. Results show that the extensively Cantonese-trained CantoneseLLM-7B consistently outperforms others on lexical surprisal and joint metrics, while entropy reduction favors the less adapted CKIP model, indicating that deeper Cantonese-specific training can improve predictive alignment but that rankings vary by metric.
arXiv:2608.30583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard language proficiency tests rely on linguistic tasks such as vocabulary, grammar and reading comprehension quizzes. An alternative, cognitively...
arXiv:2608. 14896v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models work well on English and behave in poorly understood ways on languages typologically far from it.
The study compares four approaches for Chinese sentence-level metaphor identification: BERT fine‑tuning, QLoRA-based large language model fine‑tuning, zero‑shot LLM prompting, and zero‑shot prompting with an expert‑informed procedural Skill. Results show that fine‑tuning yields the highest accuracy on the native test set, while the Skill‑based zero‑shot method provides the most stable performance across three datasets, achieving the highest external floor and the smallest performance range. Adding the Skill reduces false positives on one dataset but increases false negatives on others, indicating a trade‑off between precision and recall.
arXiv:2607. 08152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On the recent EyeBench benchmark, predicting reading comprehension from eye movements exposes a stark gap: text-aware models using pretrained language models reach 56--63% AUROC, while gaze-only models operate at chance.
arXiv:2606. 03165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The language used by digital chat assistants such as ChatGPT can diverge from human expectations (misalignment).
arXiv:2608.28382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Users often ask large language models (LLMs) to report how confident they are, but it is unclear whether such linguistic confidence tracks the model's...
arXiv:2606. 00020v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) based Chinese Grammatical Error Correction (CGEC) systems face two critical challenges: general-purpose models lack specialized linguistic priors for subtle grammatical distinctions, and Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) with Maximum Likelihood Estimation fails to optimize for precision-focused metrics, leading to systematic over-correction.
arXiv:2608. 04021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloze-style probes that vary how often a target token appears implicitly assume that more copies of a target affect prediction the same way regardless of where the readout slot sits.
arXiv:2607. 23440v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we push the boundary of LLM reasoning by testing them in a Chinese language game, xiehouyu, with novel xiehouyu created by linguists that had not existed before to avoid data contamination.
The paper evaluates four metrics—CKA, ANC, GMM dominance per token, and ILO—used to measure cross‑lingual representation sharing in multilingual language models. Across 21 models ranging from 125 M to 14 B parameters, the metrics disagree, and the authors attribute this to anisotropy, where representations cluster in a narrow embedding cone. Only ILO shows a strong, robust correlation with cross‑lingual transfer performance (Spearman’s ρ = 0.90) after controlling for model size, family, and task variation, leading the authors to recommend ILO as the primary metric alongside anisotropy diagnostics.
arXiv:2604. 19139v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve through alignment techniques such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and Constitutional AI, a growing and increasingly conspicuous phenomenon has emerged: the proliferation of verbal tics--repetitive, formulaic linguistic patterns that pervade model outputs.
arXiv:2505.12196v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The impressive linguistic abilities of large language models (LLMs) have recommended them as models of human sentence processing, with some conject...