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Left-Branching Transformers Excel at Right-Branching Languages: Data Shapes Word Order Preferences in Language Models

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arXiv:2608. 15129v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We systematically compare word order preferences in decoder-only language models across 192 artificial languages and typologically diverse natural languages.

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