Rui Chaves
@rpchaves.bsky.social
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"Words, words, words." - Hamlet, Act II, scene ii. (he/him)
Yet another example of how LLMs are not robust (a key argument against symbolic AI): a small fraction of 'bad' data can compromise models regardless of dataset or model size. Data poisoning does not scale with model size.
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07192
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07192
26 days ago
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The Physics Of Dissonance
YouTube video by minutephysics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl6ZcY9ag
4 months ago
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There is mounting evidence that LLMs rely heavily on brute-force and shallow heuristics to achieve high accuracy, despite some studies (though not all) finding evidence for sophisticated latent representations. Add another to the bunch:
www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.16678
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Mechanisms vs. Outcomes: Probing for Syntax Fails to Explain Performance on Targeted Syntactic Evaluations
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit a robust mastery of syntax when processing and generating text. While this suggests internalized understanding of hierarchical syntax and dependency relations, the...
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.16678
4 months ago
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Rui Chaves
Ada Palmer
5 months ago
Wow, yes. An amazing glimpse of the LLM Lie Machine at work. Anyone whose students are bring tempted by LLMs, sharing this could be very helpful showing how it lies, and how it fails.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Bresnan (1991)
journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/...
6 months ago
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Rui Chaves
Laura A. Michaelis
8 months ago
Register now for the LSA Linguistic Institute in Eugene, OR: over 80 courses over two 2.5-week terms (July 7-22::July 24-August 8). I'm teaching Constructions & the Grammar of Context with E Francis in session 1!
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/
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Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
https://center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/
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This the most recent job posting data in the Linguist List. Data and code:
github.com/RuiPChaves/L...
10 months ago
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Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life | CBC Radio
The case of a man who is still able to function even though most of his brain is missing, has given fuel to radical theories about consciousness. Psychologist Axel Cleeremans, of the Universitรฉ Libre in Brussels, explains how.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.3679117/scientists-research-man-missing-90-of-his-brain-who-leads-a-normal-life-1.3679125
about 1 year ago
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Cool paper showing that because LLMs use a trailing white space in their tokens, they incorrectly estimate probabilities (improper distribution error), and that this causes significantly different estimates of garden-path effects:
arxiv.org/abs/2406.10851
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Leading Whitespaces of Language Models' Subword Vocabulary...
Word-by-word conditional probabilities from Transformer-based language models are increasingly being used to evaluate their predictions over minimal pairs or to model the incremental processing...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10851
about 1 year ago
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense
Researchers gave successive versions of a large language model information produced by previous generations of the AI โ and observed rapid collapse. Researchers gave successive versions of a large lan...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02420-7
over 1 year ago
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I can't not miss this one. ๐
almost 2 years ago
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I need a German word for when a 7yo opts to play Conway's Game of Life (in Golly) rather than the usual Nintendo games. He loves the glider gun...! And experimenting with all the chaos. But don't we all?
about 2 years ago
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