The paper argues that language operates with two parameters: amplitude, which measures how often words co‑occur, and phase, a signed relational factor that determines how co‑activated meanings combine and can reverse a meaning’s contribution. Unlike amplitude, phase is not captured by standard word embeddings or transformer attention weights and is indexed to individuals and dyadic interactions. The authors propose six empirical predictions to test phase’s role and suggest that future language models should incorporate agent‑indexed, phase‑bearing semantic states.
The study probes Gemma‑2‑9B‑IT with Sparse Autoencoders across English, Hebrew, and Russian to examine how multilingual LLMs handle informal register. By using a dataset of polysemous terms that appear in literal and informal contexts, the authors isolate pragmatic register processing from lexical cues. They discover a small, robust cross‑linguistic core that forms an informal register subspace, which becomes clearer in deeper layers and can causally shift output formality across all tested languages, even transferring zero‑shot to six unseen languages.
By Uri Z. Kialy, Avi Shtarkberg, Ayal Klein
arXiv:2406. 05335v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generation of text and speech in natural languages can be modeled as a stochastic process.
By Kai Nakaishi, Yoshihiko Nishikawa, Koji Hukushima
arXiv:2606. 24172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: More than a billion people communicate in Indic languages, yet the natural language processing infrastructure serving them remains fragmented and underdeveloped.
By Ritwik Banerjee, Lav R. Varshney
arXiv:2607. 18961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) generate fluent text by incrementally predicting the next token from a prefix.
By Remo Pareschi
arXiv:2607. 25620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quattrociocchi and colleagues warn that the fluent outputs of large language models may allow linguistic plausibility to substitute for epistemic evaluation, producing the condition they call *Epistemia*: the experience of possessing knowledge without undertaking the practices through which judgment would ordinarily be warranted.
By Federico Cabitza, Gianluca Colombo
arXiv:2607. 15495v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Out of everything the human brain processes, only a small fraction is consciously accessible, in the sense of being available for verbal report, deliberate control, and flexible reasoning.
By Wes Gurnee, Nicholas Sofroniew, Adam Pearce, Mateusz Piotrowski, Isaac Kauvar, Runjin Chen, Anna Soligo, Paul Bogdan, Euan Ong, Rowan Wang, Ben Thompson, David Abrahams, Subhash Kantamneni, Emmanuel Ameisen, Joshua Batson, Jack Lindsey
arXiv:2607. 10248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language builds discourse contexts other than the actual: a painting, a belief, a memory, a hypothetical.
By Oliver Steele, Jiangtao Wen, Yuxing Han
arXiv:2502.09192v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Anthropomorphism, or the attribution of human traits to technology, is an automatic and unconscious response that occurs even in those with advance...
By Lujain Ibrahim, Myra Cheng
arXiv:2609.16854v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Probability is fundamental to theories of language comprehension, production, acquisition, and evolution, as well as to large language models. Existing...
By Ferm\'{\i}n Moscoso del Prado Mart\'{\i}n
arXiv:2609.22362v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Debates about whether artificial systems can feel are often forced between two unsatisfactory positions: behavioral equivalence is treated as sufficien...
By Marzieh Zare