The article examines how Byte‑Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenization handles Polish, an inflectional language, and finds that BPE tends to stabilize frequent surface fragments of grammatical exponents rather than true grammatical categories. It introduces the concept of grammatical form anchoring, showing that certain Polish verb forms can signal the speaking subject without an explicit pronoun, and highlights that language models may lack a stable grammatical "I" and can shift gender or mirror user forms. The study proposes Roclawski’s segmentation‑flexional forms as a diagnostic framework and suggests that more stable Polish modeling would require sublexical stabilization, anchoring grammatical form in the inflectional system, and maintaining the grammatical "I" in dialogue.
By Elzbieta Dawidek (University of Lower Silesia DSW Ideis)
arXiv:2609.17548v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Myovox, from myo (muscle) and vox (voice), decodes open-vocabulary English text from 31-channel surface electromyography (sEMG) recorded from the muscl...
By Varshith Madishetty
Laurito et al. (PNAS 2025) found that large language models prefer model‑written descriptions over human‑written ones. In this study, the authors reconstructed the 5×5 generator‑by‑selector matrices from the original data and tested for an “own‑model premium” using a two‑way fixed‑effects model and permutation tests. The results show no statistically significant preference for a selector’s own model across products, paper abstracts, or films, with effect sizes near zero and confidence intervals that rule out a premium larger than about 0.04 share points.
By Dmitrij \.Zatuchin
Saidzoda‑Tajik‑E5‑Large is a 560 M‑parameter Tajik text embedder fine‑tuned from multilingual‑e5‑large‑instruct. The authors generated 235,140 question‑passage pairs from Tajik laws, tax documents, Wikipedia and web text, trained for one epoch with hard negatives, and mixed in English and Russian pairs to preserve multilingual performance. On unseen Tajik law and tax passages the model retrieves the correct answer in the top ten for 93.6 % and 94.5 % of questions, respectively, outperforming the base model and matching larger models on similar tasks.
By Tohir Saidzoda, Nekruz Maxudov, Bedil Karimov, Abubakr Abdullozoda, Amin Jalilov, Jonibek Kishvarov, Rahmonali Sharipov, Mariyamkhon Shodyeva
arXiv:2608. 08032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety alignment in multilingual models is uneven: a model that reliably refuses a harmful request in English will often comply with the same request in a lower-resource language.
By Ramakrishna P. Kompella, Aadit Mahajan
The paper reports on a large‑scale verified search experiment using a 30B language model on a laptop, evaluating three operator packages—schematic notebooks, named obstacles, and behavioural repulsion—in a factorial design across nine construction problems. Results show that the full composition of operators closes the seed‑to‑record gap more effectively than any single component, increases construction‑hash diversity, and that memory plus repulsion consistently avoids collapse. A frontier proposer achieves similar gains in far fewer samples, but the search ultimately stalls near a plateau where the reference family is adopted and optimized only when provided as code.
By Roberto I. Ono Filho