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Jixing Li

3 accepted papers

2024

Measuring Meaning Composition in the Human Brain with Composition Scores from Large Language Models

ACL 2024long

The process of meaning composition, wherein smaller units like morphemes or words combine to form the meaning of phrases and sentences, is essential for human sentence comprehension. Despite extensive neurolinguistic research into the brain regions involved in meaning composition, a computational me…

2024

Multilingual Pretraining and Instruction Tuning Improve Cross-Lingual Knowledge Alignment, But Only Shallowly

NAACL 2024long

Despite their strong ability to retrieve knowledge in English, current large language models show imbalance abilities in different languages. Two approaches are proposed to address this, i.e., multilingual pretraining and multilingual instruction tuning. However, whether and how do such methods cont…

2023

Roles of Scaling and Instruction Tuning in Language Perception: Model vs. Human Attention

EMNLP 2023long findings

Recent large language models (LLMs) have revealed strong abilities to understand natural language. Since most of them share the same basic structure, i.e. the transformer block, possible contributors to their success in the training process are scaling and instruction tuning. However, how these fact…

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