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Fatma Deniz

3 accepted papers

2025

Brain-Informed Fine-Tuning for Improved Multilingual Understanding in Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent studies have demonstrated that fine-tuning language models with brain data can improve their semantic understanding, although these findings have so far been limited to English. Interestingly, similar to the shared multilingual embedding space of pretrained multilingual language models, human…

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2024

Speech language models lack important brain-relevant semantics

ACL 2024long

Despite known differences between reading and listening in the brain, recent work has shown that text-based language models predict both text-evoked and speech-evoked brain activity to an impressive degree. This poses the question of what types of information language models truly predict in the bra…

2022

Attention weights accurately predict language representations in the brain

EMNLP 2022finding

In Transformer-based language models (LMs) the attention mechanism converts token embeddings into contextual embeddings that incorporate information from neighboring words. The resulting contextual hidden state embeddings have enabled highly accurate models of brain responses, suggesting that the at…

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