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Matianyu Zang

2 accepted papers

2025

The Same but Different: Structural Similarities and Differences in Multilingual Language Modeling

ICLR 2025poster

We employ new tools from mechanistic interpretability to ask whether the internal structure of large language models (LLMs) shows correspondence to the linguistic structures which underlie the languages on which they are trained. In particular, we ask (1) when two languages employ the same morphosyn…

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2024

Do *they* mean ‘us’? Interpreting Referring Expression variation under Intergroup Bias

EMNLP 2024finding

The variations between in-group and out-group speech (intergroup bias) are subtle and could underlie many social phenomena like stereotype perpetuation and implicit bias. In this paper, we model intergroup bias as a tagging task on English sports comments from forums dedicated to fandom for NFL team…