Language has two parameters. Count how often words occur together and you estimate amplitude, the strength of association.
arXiv:2603. 20381v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding the fundamental mechanisms governing the production of meaning in the processing of natural language is critical for designing safe, thoughtful, engaging, and empowering human-agent interactions.
By Christopher J. Agostino, Quan Le Thien, Nayan D'Souza, Louis van der Elst
arXiv:2607. 26179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs are widely regarded as alien intelligences, systems whose cognitive operations are fundamentally unlike our own.
By Chandra Sripada, Richard Lewis
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.
By Shuai Wu, Xue Li, Yanna Feng, Yufang Li, Zhijun Wang, Ran Wang
arXiv:2606. 07722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article offers a perspective on the nature of chatbots as genuine conversation partners when discussing problems in relation to their solutions.
By S. F. M. van Vlijmen, H. D. Lethe jr
arXiv:2510. 04391v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mental imagery vividness is a stable individual trait, yet whether imagined scenarios share relational structure across human and synthetic large language model (LLM) populations remains unknown.
By Saurabh Ranjan, Brian Odegaard