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Holly Jenkins

Publications 2

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Neural Language Models Learn the Contextual Distributions of Dependency Structures: a statistical learning theory to compositionality

It is unclear how Neural Language Models (NLMs) acquire the structural meaning encoded by grammatical structures that is independent of lexical semantics. We propose a statistical learning process in which learned dependency structures themselves become new distributional units for subsequent statistical learning. Unde …

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Generalization and Memorization along the Learning Trajectory of Neural Language Models: A Geometric Account of Categorization

We investigate how generalization and memorization develop along the learning trajectory of neural language models. Using controlled synthetic grammars, we examine both the geometry of representation space and model behaviour over training. We find that continuous regions of representation space not occupied by observe …

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