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Aditya Yedetore

2 accepted papers

2024

Semantic Training Signals Promote Hierarchical Syntactic Generalization in Transformers

EMNLP 2024main

Neural networks without hierarchical biases often struggle to learn linguistic rules that come naturally to humans. However, neural networks are trained primarily on form alone, while children acquiring language additionally receive data about meaning. Would neural networks generalize more like huma…

2023

How poor is the stimulus? Evaluating hierarchical generalization in neural networks trained on child-directed speech

ACL 2023long

When acquiring syntax, children consistently choose hierarchical rules over competing non-hierarchical possibilities. Is this preference due to a learning bias for hierarchical structure, or due to more general biases that interact with hierarchical cues in children’s linguistic input? We explore th…